Latest NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship News
Strack scores 22, No. 22 Kentucky starts Kenny Brooks era with 98-43 win over USC Upstate
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Clara Strack scored 22 points, Georgia Amoore added 11, and No. 22 Kentucky started with a 98-43 win over South Carolina Upstate on Monday in the Wildcats' first game under Kenny Brooks. Brooks built Virginia Tech into an NCAA Tournament regular and brought...
No. 15 North Carolina women beat Charleston Southern 83-53 to begin the season
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Alyssa Ustby had 18 points, eight rebounds and four assists, Lexi Donarski added 14 points, and No. 15 North Carolina beat Charleston Southern 83-53 on Monday to begin the season. UNC has won 12 straight games against Charleston Southern and seven...
Hannah Hidalgo takes relentless approach to improving her game for No. 6 Notre Dame
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Notre Dame point guard Hannah Hidalgo expects even more in her second college season than she did in her first. Yes, more than first team All-American honors, more than a Sweet 16 run in the NCAA Tournament, even more than being named the top guard in...
Iowa begins post-Caitlin Clark era with lower expectations and a new coach. Players see opportunity
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Caitlin Clark era at Iowa ended with her as the NCAA Division I overall scoring leader and the Hawkeyes playing in two straight national championship games and being the hottest ticket in women's basketball. Clark recently finished her first pro season as...
South Carolina leads the way as women's college basketball hopes to build off last year's success
Dawn Staley and South Carolina ran through last season undefeated on the way to the school’s third national championship. With a lot of that squad back, there is good reason to think the Gamecocks could repeat. Standing in their way could be a healthy UConn led by Paige Bueckers...
Four new schools join the rough-and-tumble Big 12, and Utah believes it can succeed right away
The thing that stood out to Utah coach Lynne Roberts when she began to prepare for the Utes' move to the Big 12 was not the overall toughness of the league, though that was impressive, or the size or depth or talent level of its teams. It was the vastly different styles that they...
Ivey has No. 6 Notre Dame back atop ACC women's race featuring 5 other AP Top 25 teams
Notre Dame rolled into the Atlantic Coast Conference with a wave of championships before a two-year dip. Niele Ivey has the sixth-ranked Fighting Irish back in top position again. They won last year's ACC Tournament title for her first as head coach, and now they're the preseason...
Watkins, Bueckers headline preseason AP All-America team in women's hoops; 3 sophomores for 1st time
USC star JuJu Watkins and UConn's Paige Bueckers headline The Associated Press preseason All-America women's college basketball team released Tuesday that for the first time includes three sophomores in a clear sign of the young talent in a sport coming off a record year of fan interest. ...
Gonzaga's Lisa Fortier ready to coach again with cancer treatment behind her
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Her breast cancer treatment concluded, Lisa Fortier walked into Gonzaga's basketball facility last week and was greeted by balloons, streamers and her players blowing horns. Yvonne Ejim told her coach through tears how proud she was of Fortier, saying, “I never...
