If you had envisioned a 2023 women’s NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 without Grace Berger of Indiana, Haley Jones of Stanford and Celeste Taylor of Duke, well, congratulations: You predicted the future better than almost anyone. But for the rest of us, it’s been a crazy tournament already, with massive swings in the odds and futures […]
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 […]
After the Connecticut women’s basketball team lost Paige Bueckers in December, and the Huskies returned to the court with a lackluster 44-point effort in a loss to an unranked Georgia Tech team, the Twitter obits proliferated. It seemed there was nothing left to do with this UConn team but bury it. A funny thing, though: […]
Christmas came early for women’s college basketball this year as the NCAA Tournament bracket was announced on Selection Sunday rather than the traditional Selection Monday. The move to put the men’s and women’s bracket reveals on the same day was part of a broader push for gender equity that included expanding the field to 68 […]
For years, the not-so-burning question around the NCAA women’s basketball tournament was whether anybody stood a chance of beating the Connecticut Huskies. The answer, of course, was a resounding “no” in 2013. And 2014. And 2015 and 2016. Last season was more interesting, however; for the first time since we started predicting the women’s tournament […]