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What's going on with Florida Women's Basketball?

What's going on with Florida Women's Basketball?

In the last 32 years, only one school has finished in the top 10 all-sports rankings, The University of Florida. In Gainesville, conference championships are almost an annual occurrence. Over the...

ByAria Modirmassihai | Tue Jul 20 2021
Kaplan Report Reveals Inequalities in Men’s and Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournaments

Kaplan Report Reveals Inequalities in Men’s and Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournaments

We all saw the videos that went viral from the WNBA bubble last season revealing the mediocre and sometimes worse accommodations the best female athletes were forced to live in. There was also the...

ByAria Modirmassihai | Fri Aug 20 2021
Rethinking Female Team Names In College Sports

Rethinking Female Team Names In College Sports

The Baylor Lady Bears women’s basketball team made an emphatic statement last week. Don’t call us “Lady” Bears, they essentially said. From now on, they will be referred to as the Bears, which falls...

ByAndrew Pistone | Mon Sep 13 2021
Women's Basketball: Looking Back at Three WNBA Finals Stars’ College Careers

Women's Basketball: Looking Back at Three WNBA Finals Stars’ College Careers

The WNBA Finals matchup has two star studded teams doing battle, and the league has to be thrilled with the way it turned out. The Phoenix Mercury and the Chicago Sky are in the middle of a best of...

ByAndrew Pistone | Wed Oct 20 2021
Women’s Basketball: Preseason Poll Released For 2021-2022 Season

Women’s Basketball: Preseason Poll Released For 2021-2022 Season

As the WNBA season wrapped up in mid-October, some of the younger women's basketball talent is just getting warmed up all across the country. The NCAA Women's Basketball season will begin on November...

ByAlexis Peltzer-Harding | Thu Nov 11 2021
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Could The Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament Field Expand?

Could The Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament Field Expand?

For many years, both the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournament field was set at 64 teams. It was a pretty symmetrical and logical number to arrive at, with 16 teams each playing in four...

ByAndrew Pistone | Tue Nov 02 2021
Women's Basketball: How the sport evolved into the popular WNBA

Women's Basketball: How the sport evolved into the popular WNBA

Women's basketball has come to stay, after many years of turbulence and a lot of challenges. 1891 was the year the game began for women with rules very difficult to comprehend or execute when...

ByScotty Jenkins | Mon Dec 06 2021
Women’s Pro Sports Might Be Coming To Nashville

Women’s Pro Sports Might Be Coming To Nashville

Despite not being considered a major sports market in the United States, Nashville does have a decent presence in the professional arena. The Tennessee Titans of the NFL and the Nashville Predators...

ByAndrew Pistone | Wed Jan 19 2022
Women's Basketball: Meet The Michael Jordan Of The Women's Game

Women's Basketball: Meet The Michael Jordan Of The Women's Game

Although there are many modern day women trying to replace the OG Michael Jordan of women’s basketball, no one comes close to the infamy of the great Sheryl Swoopes. Swoopes is showcasing hardware...

ByScotty Jenkins | Mon Jun 13 2022
WNBA Star Denied Appeal To 9-Year Prison Sentence In Russia

WNBA Star Denied Appeal To 9-Year Prison Sentence In Russia

Brittney Griner was dealt another blow in her hopes to return home to the U.S. Tuesday. The WNBA star’s sentence on drug charges was upheld in a Russian court, and she is set to serve nine years in...

ByScotty Jenkins | Wed Oct 26 2022
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