It’s an exciting time to be a UCLA women’s basketball fan. The Bruins are coming off a program-record 34 wins in their first season in the Big Ten, going 16-2 in conference play and winning the Big Ten Tournament, and they advanced all the way to the Final Four in the NCAA Tournament for the […]
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Only three NCAA Division I women’s basketball coaches have won back-to-back national championships: UConn’s Geno Auriemma (2002-04, 2009-10, 2013-16), Tennessee’s Pat Summitt (1996-98, 2007-08) and USC’s Linda Sharp (1983-84). Then there’s South Carolina’s Dawn Staley (2022, 2024) and Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer (1990, 1992), who have won two in three years (with Staley also capturing three […]
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Sonia Raman has agreed to become the next head coach of the Seattle Storm, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania. An assistant coach with the New York Liberty during the 2025 season, Raman will be the first WNBA head coach of Indian descent. She also will be the league’s only current head coach who is a […]
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Who will be the best player in women’s college basketball in the 2025-26 NCAA season? The season-long absence of last year’s Naismith Trophy winner and AP Player of the Year JuJu Watkins, in combination with the departure of Wade Trophy winner Paige Bueckers, leaves the field wide open. However, fans from Storrs to Westwood to […]
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Four Big 12 teams begin the 2025-26 women’s college basketball season ranked in the top 25: No. 14 Iowa State, No. 16 Baylor, No. 17 TCU and No. 22 Oklahoma State. It is a bit curious that the conference’s defending regular-season and tournament champs, TCU, is not the highest-ranked Big 12 team, even though they […]
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The headline for Week 3 of EuroLeague Women—the expected debuts of Kayla McBride and Megan Gustafson for Fenerbahçe—delivered an unsurprising outcome in the matchup between the powerhouse club and Olympiacos. With 13 points and four assists from McBride and nine points and six rebounds from Gustafson to bolster Emma Meesseman’s 17 points and six boards […]
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Longtime USF head coach Jose Fernandez is expected to be named the next head coach of the Dallas Wings, as first reported by college basketball insider Skim Milkey and SB Nation’s Mitchell Northam. While Fernandez has yet to sign a contract, he and the organization are expected to agree to a deal with multiple guaranteed […]
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Last year, UCLA and USC joined the Big Ten—and dominated right away. The Trojans won the conference outright, and the Bruins were right behind them. In the conference tournament, UCLA and USC faced each other, and the Bruins came out on top 72-67. In the NCAA Tournament, USC lost in the Elite Eight to eventual-champions […]
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The advent of college basketball’s transfer portal era, certainly, has introduced transactional drama to the sport. But, it’s important not to underrate the real impact of the portal. The last four national champions all have benefited from the boost provided by a first-year transfer. Although she logged less than 15 minutes per game, Kamilla Cardoso […]
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Sandy Brondello will be the first head coach of the expansion Toronto Tempo, per the reporting of The IX Sports’ Howard Megdal. A two-time WNBA championship-winning head coach with 13 years of head coaching experience in the W, in addition to eight seasons as an assistant and nine years as the head coach of the […]
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With five teams ranked in the AP preseason poll, the ACC is loading up for an ever-competitive season. Familiar faces are expected to lead the conference, but a summer of transfer portal chaos leaves us with some pressing questions before the season tips off: Can No. 7 Duke finally get over the hump? Women’s college […]
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The 2024-25 NCAA freshman class impressed, but now, another year into their collegiate careers, it’s time for them to take the next step and take their teams to a higher level. Many of these now-sophomores are set to be the best player and key voice for their Power 4 programs. Can they step up and […]
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It’s still very early in the 2025-26 EuroLeague Women season, but we’re already seeing a good amount of movement, particularly for Turkish club Fenerbahçe Opet. Fenerbahçe announced that Kayla McBride, who previously won EuroLeague Women championships with the club in 2023 and 2024, and Megan Gustafson have joined the team. They replace Monique Billings, who […]
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The SEC begins the 2025-26 women’s college basketball season with three teams ranked in the top five, five in the top 10 and eight in the top 25. In this era of power conferences, the SEC is THE power conference. And yet, being the best conference doesn’t necessarily mean being the most-competitive conference. For all […]
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As women’s college basketball continues to grow and develop, so do the incoming freshman classes. Recently, players like Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers and JuJu Watkins have been able to come into the space and immediately make an impact. While no player from the 2025-26 freshman class has that level of hype, things can […]
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Last season provided a picture-perfect ending for UConn and Paige Bueckers. The super senior won the title that had eluded her during her entire collegiate career, allowing her to celebrate on the floor with head coach Geno Auriemma, who now has 12 NCAA national championships. Regardless of how historic last season’s achievement was, it is […]
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The 2025 WNBA season may have just ended, but for anyone with even the slightest interest in the 2026 WNBA Draft, it’s already time to start looking forward to next year. The women’s college basketball season is about to tip-off, so let’s run through some of the biggest draft-eligible names in college basketball before they […]
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Lauren Ebo is now in Catalonia, playing for Joventut Badalona in Spain’s Liga Femenina de Baloncesto and moving closer and closer westwards as a pro, after starting off in Turkey and later playing in Poland. If England doesn’t get in the way, we might see her back in the United States next. Regardless of where […]
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One down, four to go. (Or, four to go for now, as we can never count out the possibility of late-breaking, oddly-timed WNBA decisions.) On Friday, the Portland Fire officially announced Alex Sarama as their head coach, tapping the player development guru currently on the staff of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. The hire, which initially […]
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Throughout the 2025 WNBA season, players’ dissatisfaction with the state of their negotiations with the league for a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) smoldered. The players fanned the flames during the All-Star game, when, following a meeting with the league brass, reportedly attended by around 40 players, that left players wanting more, they wore shirts […]
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Gameday 2 of the 2025-26 EuroLeague Women competition delivered a surprise loss to the reigning champs and a potential candidate for “Game of the Season.” It’s still early in the competition, but we can already see what teams won’t be able to remain as dominant as they were in previous seasons, and which new kids […]
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With the WNBA season over and done with, the focus now shifts to the NCAA calendar. Unfortunately, we won’t be seeing JuJu Watkins, as it’s already been announced that the reigning National Player of the Year won’t be playing for USC this season after she tore her ACL in the second round of the 2025 […]
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Editor’s note: On Friday, the Portland Fire officially hired Alex Sarama as their head coach. Another only-in-the-WNBA moment appeared to occur on Tuesday. The Portland Fire, one of the two expansion franchises set to debut in 2026, shared on LinkedIn that Alex Sarama had been hired as the team’s head coach. And then the post […]
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It’s said that all good things must come to an end. That will undoubtedly be true for the No. 21 Iowa Hawkeyes as they begin the 2025-26 season. The four remaining players who were part of the Caitlin Clark era will play out their final season before sold-out crowds at Carver-Hawkeye Arena: Hannah Stuelke, Kylie […]
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This offseason will not be a normal one for the WNBA. The league and players’ union are currently trying to come to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), but a lockout seems imminent. Even when a new CBA gets agreed upon, nearly the entire league will be able to enter free agency. Did […]
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