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Caitlyn Blazes Trail for Women’s Basketball

In the 80s, the NBA was on the verge of bankruptcy. Then Magic Johnson and Larry Bird joined hands to make the NBA more exciting. Michael Jordan came, followed by the Shaq O’Neill, Kobe Bryant, then Lebron came in. Caitlyn has the same capability.

A record was set when an average of 12.8M viewers watched Iowa’s victory over LSU on ESPN in the Elite Eight of the ongoing Women’s NCAA Tournament. It was the most watched of the Elite Eight match-ups for women this season, but the big surprise was that it even topped the 2023 NBA Finals and Major League Baseball’s World Series viewership records last year! These mind-boggling figures, coupled…

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Just Who Do You Think You Are?

I have been a follower of women’s sports since my own girl played high school basketball. She was dubbed the Tasmanian devil because she was feisty, quick, and could handle the ball around the much taller girls. Women’s basketball is still in my bones. That’s why I enjoy NCAA Women’s basketball. This season Caitlin Clark shattered dozens of NCAA and Big Ten records throughout her four-year…

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Angel Reese asserts her star power in WNBA vs Caitlin Clark [VIDEO]

Angel Reese asserts her star power in WNBA vs Caitlin Clark Continue reading Angel Reese asserts her star power in WNBA vs Caitlin Clark [VIDEO]

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Dawn Staley’s very good dog Champ adorably crashed her March Madness press conference

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Dawn Staley’s very good dog Champ adorably crashed her March Madness press conference

During Saturday’s press availability, South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley brought a special friend with her to the table. Staley’s dog Champ joined her as she took questions from reporters and joked that the dog wouldn’t answering any questions from the press until the NCAA gave the very good boy a proper name plate. […]

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Friday's Sweet Sixteen Preview: Could There Finally Be an Upset?

We’re in the thick of March Madness, the annual playoff tournament in college basketball. With just sixteen teams left, the competition is ratcheting up another tier and I for one cannot wait. It’s day one of the Sweet Sixteen (the other half of the teams play tomorrow) and given that the women’s tournament has had primetime channel slots all postseason, I’m here with an introductory guide to the…

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MY ALL-TIME (fictional) MOVIE BASKETBALL TEAM

Second in a series… Though it has been about a year and a half since I wrote and posted my choices for an all-time football team from the movie world, I reckoned that with March Madness – also known as the NCAA Basketball Tournament (both men’s and women’s) – upon us, Being that in the opinion of myself and millions of other hoops fans that 68-team, single elimination affair is the best thing…

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For the Ladies: Women's Final Four, Comedian Cheryl Reeve, WNBA Draft, and PHF Playoffs

We discuss the Women's Final Four, Cheryl Reeve being hilarious, the WNBA Draft, the PHF Playoffs and news of the PWHPA unionizing. 

We preview the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament, the Minnesota Lynx WNBA Draft, and discuss the comedy stylings of Cheryl Reeve, the Premier Hockey Federation playoffs, and news of the PWHPA forming a union.  Listen here. Watch here. Mujeres’ March Madness is About to Begin! NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Championship Game to air on network television with its own pregame show for the…

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Hard Fought Battle Leads to the Sweet 16

Hard Fought Battle Leads to the Sweet 16

The UConn Women’s basketball team faced one of their toughest battles on Monday night as they faced off against 7-seed UCF at Gampel Pavilion. The record 4,000 students were loud and raucous while they watched the best defensive team in the country, UCF Knights, muck up the game in an extreme way. The low-scoring, foul-filled contest was a true test for the Huskies, and in the end, the UConn…

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Cartoon du Jour: GO CATS

Cartoon du Jour: GO CATS

David Fitzsimmons — Arizona Daily Star Today the Arizona Wildcats are playing the Stanford Cardinal in the NCAA Woman’s Basketball Finals. GO WILDCATS!!!

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NCAA Faced Criticisms for Inequality between Men’s and Women’s Amenities

NCAA Faced Criticisms for Inequality between Men’s and Women’s Amenities

The NCAA faced criticisms after a video posted on social media showed a vast difference between men’s and women’s weight rooms. Oregon Duck Sedona Prince shared a video on Twitter and TikTok that showed the facilities of the NCAA. The women’s weight room was a stack of low-weight dumbbells. On the other hand, the men’s weight room featured complete weight training equipment. Prince said that if…

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Wisconsni native: Iowa's Megan Gustafson wins Honda award for basketball

The 6-foot-3 center from Port Wing, Wisconsin, had 33 double-doubles in her senior season, tying an NCAA record.

NEW YORK (AP) — Megan Gustafson of Iowa has won the Honda Sports Award as the top woman in college basketball.

Gustafson led Division I women’s basketball with an average of 28 points this season. She owns Iowa records for most career points (2,804) and rebounds (1,460).

The 6-foot-3 center from Port Wing, Wisconsin, had 33 double-doubles in her senior season, tying an NCAA record. She led the…

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Baylor beats Notre Dame, 82-81, to win women's NCAA basketball tournament championship

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SO CAL COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Our NCAA Tournament Preview & Predictions

USC’s Juju Watkins (#12) getting off a shot against UCLA in Pauley Pavilion. Photo courtesy of pac12.com MY LOOK AT THE COLLEGE HOOPS TEAMS FROM SO CAL THAT WILL BE IN MARCH MADNESS As far as the Los Angeles area and Southern California is concerned, This year’s version of March Madness – the NCAA Tournament, The best thing the sport of basketball has to offer in the views of myself and…

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NCAA women's basketball championship: Baylor wins 3rd title

Baylor, the top overall seed of the women’s NCAA basketball tournament, has won its third national title, defeating No. 1 seed Notre Dame 82-81 at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida on Sunday. It’s Baylor’s first title since 2012, which also came against the Fighting Irish.

Baylor led by as many as 17, but after an injury to Bears star forward Lauren Cox, the Irish surged back to take the lead with just over three minutes left.

But Baylor regrouped, as Chloe Jackson, who led Baylor with 26 points in her final collegiate game, hit what turned out to be the dagger with 4 seconds to go.

Arike Ogunbowale, the star in last year’s title game, was fouled with the Irish trailing by two with 1.9 seconds remaining. But unlike her clutch shot to win the championship last year, there were no heroics this time. The senior missed her first free throw, and then she made the second despite intentionally trying to miss. She finished with 31 points.

“It’s tough,” Ogunbowale said. “You can’t really do anything about that one.”

Jackson, a graduate transfer who previously played at LSU and had never played the point guard position until she got to Baylor, was named the tournament’s most outstanding player.

“My teammates and my coaches believed in me so much,” Jackson said to ESPN. “And we had to do it for LC. She got us here. We had to finish the job for her.”

A hobbled Cox — who had to leave the game in a wheelchair — was able to return to the court before the game ended and got to hoist the trophy with her teammates.

“Lauren Cox, my god, she’s the heart and soul of our team,” Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey said through tears to ESPN. “And I just know she’s hurt because that kid would have gotten up. … I just know when you lose a big-time player in the middle of a national championship, you’re not supposed to win.”

Cox, who suffered the injury in the third quarter, came back to the Bears’ bench and was in the team huddles. Before she was forced out, Cox had eight points, eight rebounds and three blocked shots.

“I’m one of the leaders of this team, so (I came back) just to have my voice there, to tell them that I’m still OK,” Cox said to ESPN. “They told me they were going to do this for me.” She said she doesn’t know much about her injury and that she’ll “get it fixed, whatever it is.”

The three titles put Mulkey behind only Geno Auriemma, who has 11 at Connecticut, and the late Pat Summitt, who had eight at Tennessee.

The Bears (37-1) have won 29 consecutive games, last losing at Stanford in December.

Of Mulkey’s three titles, it’s the second time that Baylor head coach is sharing it with her daughter. In 2012, Baylor went 40-0 when Makenzie (Robertson) Fuller was a guard on that title team. She’s now in her fourth season on Mulkey’s staff, serving as associate director of basketball operations.

In November 2017, Fuller lost her unborn child, Scout Marie. The stillborn infant was delivered after doctors didn’t detect a heartbeat during a weekly checkup, according to CNN affiliate KWTX. Scout Marie was believed to have Turner’s syndrome, a condition that affects only females, in which one of the X chromosomes is missing or partially missing.

“I don’t think it’s any secret that we had just a horrible year with the death of a grandchild, yet I don’t think as a family, I’m talking about Makenzie and myself, we had time to grieve,” Mulkey said after Baylor’s win against Oregon in the Final Four.

In October, Fuller gave birth to a son, Kannon, who Mulkey had with her on the dais after Friday’s win and on the floor Sunday after winning the championship.

“You bet I’m going to hang onto him,” Mulkey said at the time of Friday’s win. “Holding a child up here is a heck of a lot more touching than holding one right here that’s deceased. I’ve done both in the last year and a half.”

Last year’s title run by Notre Dame was a shock. The Fighting Irish had more ACL tears (four) than losses, and those injuries last season left Notre Dame with just seven scholarship players. And the way they won in 2018 was breathtaking, with buzzer-beaters by Ogunbowale in the semifinal and championship games against Connecticut and Mississippi State, respectively.

This year was different. The No. 1 seed Irish (35-4) returned several of their players from that championship team. They were the preseason No. 1, something that made head coach Muffet McGraw uncomfortable. It’s something she alluded to before Sunday’s final.

“We came into the season with all of that on us. No. 1, defending champs,” McGraw said Saturday. “Sometimes defending champs aren’t really because they don’t have their team back. But we did. We were truly the defending champs. It was a burden.”

On Sunday, she called the loss “frustrating.”

“Well, I’m sad for the seniors that we came that close after getting down 17, clawing our way back,” McGraw said. “We had so many missed opportunities both ends of the floor. … We just didn’t come out ready. That was disappointing.”

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Baylor's Women's Basketball Team Narrowly Beats Notre Dame

Baylor’s Women’s Basketball Team Narrowly Beats Notre Dame

If you’re familiar with Notre Dame’s women’s basketball team, and you watched the Sunday night national title game, then you are likely feeling a little bit confused right now. And you’re not alone. Baylor’s women’s basketball team beat Notre Dame in a historic final with a score of 82-81. In sports, we love to see close games like this. Blowouts make us feel like one of the teams shouldn’t have…