The first official player movement of the WNBA season hit the wire today as the Seattle Storm made it clear they plan to inject some youth into the franchise by swapping a veteran stalwart and it???s most promising young player for a couple picks in the upcoming draft. The Storm sent F Camille … [Read more...]
Weekly Recap: Upsets rock the ACC, Arizona State breaks skid vs Stanford
As the month of January inches towards its end, most teams have found their groove and shaken loose all the cobwebs associated with integrating new players, adjusting to injuries and the like. As we approach the stretch run heading into conference tournaments, the familiarity of teams starts to … [Read more...]
NCAA women’s basketball weekly recap: Baylor, Seton Hall, Oklahoma get big wins, Loyd lights up Tennessee
Another week of conference hoops and several more illustrations of the parity in women's college basketball. Save a few minor shifts in the top ten, the apex remained the same with South Carolina undefeated at +ACM-1 and one-loss UConn at +ACM-2. There will likely be more shifting in the weeks ahead as 5 … [Read more...]
Weekly women’s basketball recap: Texas, Mississippi State take first losses, Isabelle Harrison leads Tennessee
It was an exciting week in the world of women's basketball with more undefeated teams taking their first loss and seniors leading their team to victories. We review some of the bigger moments. It's been a few weeks since we last spoke and in that time I've welcomed a niece into the family and … [Read more...]
Texas Continues Hot Start, Knocks off Rice 77-54 for 11-0
Tuesday evening marked the Longhorns final non-conference matchup before beginning Big 12 play and Karen Aston's squad took advantage of the much smaller Owls. Senior post Nneka Enemkpali led the Texas with a double-double, tallying 14 points and 14 boards. Guards Empress Davenport and Brooke … [Read more...]
Tennessee hands Oregon State first loss, Conference play begins
Happy Holidays everyone+ACE This was a bit of a short week for the women's hoops world with schools being on break to allow students to head home for winter break but that still doesn't mean that nothing happened. With conference play beginning across the country within the next 7 days, teams should be … [Read more...]
Texas Makes Statement, Week 2 Player Rankings
The last time we saw each other, I debuted my player of the year rankings and will continue this week. I decided based on the awesome slate of games yesterday to move the recaps to Mondays and boy, was it a good decision+ACE My twitter predictions crashed and burned but that's what's made this season … [Read more...]
What We’ve Learned So Far during college basketball season: Debuting Player of the Year Rankings
Who are the best college basketball players? We rank them here. It seems like just yesterday the season started and we were trying to figure out who'd finish in the race for second. But thanks to another fantastic game plan, Tara VanDerveer's Stanford Cardinal toppled the seemingly invincible UConn … [Read more...]