WBCA game wrap-up
Eleven ties and 15 lead changes in this game - would have loved to see that:INDIANAPOLIS -Smyrna (Clayton, Del.) High School's Betnijah Laney, one of the nation's top high school seniors who has yet to…
Eleven ties and 15 lead changes in this game - would have loved to see that:INDIANAPOLIS -Smyrna (Clayton, Del.) High School's Betnijah Laney, one of the nation's top high school seniors who has yet to…
Just a week out from Green Bay Coach Matt Bollant emphatically telling his players to show Baylor "the Green Bay way" in the Sweet Sixteen, it looks like he may be finding another way himself:…
Who will win? Four great arguments.Skylar Diggins and the Irish are ret ta go.Little-known Texas A&M traditions.The teams are ready to stop talking and start playing.Heck yeah, me too - let's get this started already.Extra:…
Thanks, IM in OC, for the pictures illustrating the intense atmosphere at the WNIT championship game today. Bless the hearts of the USC Trojans for staying competitive in an environment like that. And that picture…
It's never happened before, but we have a three-way tie for the honor this year: Stanford Coach Tara VanDerveer, Connecticut Coach Geno Auriemma and Miami Coach Katie Meier.
I got the word about 2:30 Pacific time today from one of my best sources that Nikki Caldwell had accepted the Virginia job. Looking at my twitter feed, I wasn't the only one who heard…
Here's the WBCA All-American basketball team:Danielle Adams, Texas A&M University Skylar Diggins, University of Notre Dame Brittney Griner, Baylor University Amber Harris, Xavier University Shenise Johnson, University of Miami Jantel Lavender, Ohio Sta...
Maya Moore just won the Wade Trophy for the third time in a row - the first player ever to do that. Still waiting for a complete listing of the entire team, as right now…
Everyone's arriving in Indianapolis........On the lighter side: former Stanford Cardinal Roslyn Gold-Onwude breaks down the tournament fashion bracket. (Nikki Caldwell was robbed)Present Cardinal freshman Chiney Ogwumike is enjoying her year. She was a...
Reshanda Gray of Washington Prep High School in Los Angeles was one of the players for the West in yesterday's McDonald's All-American high school game. The event capped off a big year for the Cal…
The lead of this fine Stanford story on their seniors says it all: Four straight Final Fours. Who does that? Indeed.Tara the Terrible.At Texas A&M, it's been a long journey to the 'Four.Coaching non-hires:Texas Tech's…
The Final Four won't be what most predicted, but it will still be riveting.Well, actually 3,751 people did predict the four teams that made it.The four teams are very different.ESPNW has five storylines to watch…
The news is pretty paltry right now. But Duke signee Elizabeth Williams was the leading scorer of the game, for the East, with 23 points and 11 rebounds.I need a longer, more complete story with…
In tonight's semifinals:Toledo beat (on) Charlotte 83-60 - and in front of a sold-out crowd, too.In the meantime, USC crushed Illinois state 63-36. The two teams will battle for the title Saturday in Toledo.
Here they are:Maya MooreBrittney GrinerJeannette PohlenNnemkadi OgwumikeCourtney VanderslootWhat an honor. Congrats to all.
DeNesha Stallworth is leaving Cal before she even has a place to land."She has a signed release and we're communicating with some schools and setting up some visits," Chris Stallworth said. "It wasn't a bad…
It's finally warm in Southern California right now, after a loooooong winter, so I'm hyped.So are the McDonald's All-Americans: the girls play at 6:30 p.m. CST on ESPNU.La Jolla Country Day (San Diego) Coach Terri…
The University of Maine has removed Coach Cindy Blodgett, "effective immediately." She was their star player 13 years ago, and had been coaching there for the last four seasons.Sounds like Oregon and Bev Smith a…
Tonight seemed to be the opposite of last night's fourth round, with the blowout up first and the surprise upset second.UConn just dismantled Duke from top to bottom. I knew the Huskies would win, but…
This year's team is Maya Moore, Jantel Lavender, Jeannette Pohlen, Danielle Adams and Brittney Griner.The second team is Danielle Robinson of Oklahoma, Amber Harris of Xavier, Courtney Vandersloot of Gonzaga, Nnemkadi Ogwumike of Stanford and…
The final weekend of the season finalized a season that finished with the number one it started with - Mater Dei:Rank School (City, State) Record Prev 1 Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.)* 34-1 1 2…
Holy crap: Dawn Staley isn't likely to leave South Carolina to coach at alma mater Virginia. But UCLA Coach Nikki Caldwell interviewed there for the job yesterday.Caldwell will chat live on ESPN at 1 p.m.…
Congratulations to Stanford Coach Tara VanDerveer, who is the Russell Athletic/WBCA National NCAA Division I Coach of the Year. And that was before tonight's Elite Eight win.In the wake of Cappiegate, Angel McCoughtry might be…
The big story of the day is Notre Dame's domination of Tennessee in game one of the Elite Eight today. ESPN is saying Skylar Diggins was the key for the Irish.In the next game it…
The morning started out with a furious rally by UConn to avoid an upset and eek out a victory over Georgetown, 68-63.Then we had Duke having to hold off two DePaul rallies to beat them…
