Talking WNBA all year round, in-season as well as off-season, has historically been a dilemma for the majority-male mainstream sports media.
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New Mac assistant coach anticipates opening-night jitters
It is first-year Head Coach Pamela Findley’s opening night at the St. Paul school — she was hired this past spring.
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Ladies hoopin’ to stay in shape
Names such as Pink Panthers, Sexy Foxes, Big Baller Babes, Oldies But Goodies, Rusty Pipes and Flaming Marshmallows are among the teams in the YWCA Women’s Basketball League.
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Being on both sides of the whistle
A seasoned Coach Staley advises new Coach Whalen New Gopher Women’s Basketball Coach Lindsay Whalen said in last week’s “View” that she soon would “reach out” to South Carolina and U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball Coach Dawn Staley. Staley in 2000 became the first WNBA player to take a Division I head coaching job (at Temple) […]
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Surveying the Big Ten Women’s basketball tournament
March Madness is here at last. If the ever-present RPI, the usual strength-of-schedule measurement tool used to decide who ultimately gets in the NCAA tournament after automatic bids are locked in, it appears the bids of the five Big Ten schools — regular season champs Maryland and Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State and Indiana — […]
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New WBB rules assessed
This season’s top 10 Division I women’s basketball teams, led by Baylor (90.7 ppg) and Maryland (90.5), are all averaging between 82 and 91 points a contest. UConn last season led the nation with 88 points a game. Many argue that this is the result of the changes to the women’s game last season, including […]