The women’s college basketball season might be over, but the transfer portal is in full swing. Since the day after UCLA topped South Carolina to win the national championship, hundreds of players have put their names into the portal, including former Iowa State star Audi Crooks, the nation’s second-leading scorer. Besides Crooks, Iowa State had eight…
South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said she has spoken with UConn coach Geno Auriemma after the two had a heated exchange at the women’s Final Four on Friday. Staley, whose Gamecocks beat Auriemma and UConn before losing to UCLA in Sunday’s title game, is urging everyone to move on. Staley released a statement on Tuesday…
A new national champion will be crowned in women’s college basketball on Sunday afternoon as UCLA and South Carolina meet in the NCAA Tournament title game. All four No. 1 seeds made it to Phoenix for the Final Four, and South Carolina pulled off a surprising upset of previously unbeaten UConn on Friday night. South…
South Carolina’s stunning upset win over UConn in the Final Four on Friday night was overshadowed by a bizarre incident between Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley and Huskies coach Geno Auriemma — two of the all-time greats — just before the final buzzer. The Gamecocks were up by 14 and running out the clock. Before UConn…
FORT WORTH, Texas — As the final seconds ticked away from No. 1 seed Texas’s 77-41 win against No. 2 Michigan on Monday night in the Elite Eight, Longhorns coach Vic Schaefer took a knee. Senior point guard Rori Harmon ran to embrace him, and the pair nearly fell to the floor. Then they got…
SACRAMENTO — Almost eleven years before fueling Virginia’s Cinderella run in March Madness, Kymora Johnson had a “turning point.” Johnson, as a 10-year-old, was playing on a boy’s team. That youth basketball team was disqualified from a tournament after reaching the championship game because Johnson, a girl, was on the roster. The story made national…
After Syracuse got demolished by UConn in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, 98-45, on Monday, Orange head coach Felisha Legette-Jack used her opening statement in the postgame press conference to send a message to the NCAA selection committee. “For us to do what we’ve done, to continuously have to come to UConn ……
As time wound down in the first overtime on Monday afternoon, Chit-Chat Wright drove into the paint, collapsed the defense and kicked the ball out to Taylor Stremlow in the left corner. The sophomore’s potential game-winning 3-pointer caught every part of the rim, but instead of falling through the net and sending No. 2 Iowa…
When the bracket for the 2026 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament was revealed, everyone was eyeing a potential second-round matchup between No. 1 overall seed UConn and No. 9 seed Iowa State, led by All-American center Audi Crooks. Crooks did everything in her power to make that happen. She poured in 37 points on 17 of…
The pressure of the Big Dance wasn’t the only thing making players from Georgia, Virginia, Iowa and Fairleigh Dickinson sweat on Saturday afternoon. Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City does not have air conditioning, and an unseasonably warm day meant the temperature inside the 43-year-old building soared to over 80 degrees with a 26% humidity rate…
