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What Each Team Needs In The WNBA Draft

Just a week after women’s college basketball crowned South Carolina its champion, the WNBA draft is here. You can watch tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern on ESPN, and it’s nothing less than magical: Every few minutes, a young woman who has been working at her craft for many years will see her professional dreams come […]

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How Each Team In The Women’s Final Four Can Win It All

South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley believes her team’s offense has been unfairly maligned. “I think a lot of people have questioned our offense throughout the tournament, and it just seems to be our team’s offense that’s been targeted about what our offense is doing, and no other team has been targeted in the way […]

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Should We Expect More Madness In The Women’s Sweet 16?

Well, that was unexpected. Perennial powers Iowa, Oregon and Baylor lost. Other mainstays, like Tennessee and Indiana, were pushed to the brink. It’s made for the Maddest March ever in women’s basketball history, with just three of the eight Sweet 16 matchups featuring the chalk of 1-4 or 3-2 seeds expected to match up in […]

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Aliyah Boston Has A Title In Her Sights

Aliyah Boston’s guiding force has always been her faith. It’s a faith her parents instilled in her as a young girl growing up in Saint Thomas, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It’s a faith that guided her as she moved to live with her aunt in Massachusetts, honed her basketball skills and landed at South […]

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