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but rats: DePaul women’s basketball star Jessica January is scheduled to have surgery on Tuesday to repair a broken right index finger.
Welcome to Pac 12 ’16-’17, JR: The Trojans stomp all over #20 Colorado, 79-54. UConn transfer Sadie Edwards and Sr. Courtney Jaco combined for 30 and the Buffaloes shot 30%.
It was a tussle, but #13 Stanford escaped with a 64-57 win over #18 Arizona State.
It’s much easier for Ruthy Hebard to get recognized for her skills now that she’s at Oregon.
The Ducks freshman forward grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Also, Migrating Duck: Freshman Jayde Woods leaves Oregon.
OSU may prove to be a major player on the national scene before the dust settles on the 2016-17 campaign, but the non-conference schedule proved little.
The Beavers have yet to play a ranked opponent and Marquette, which is the best team they have played so far, upset OSU on Nov. 22 in Corvallis.
Friday’s win didn’t come easy.
Robinson’s gunshot trauma is the latest in a string of issues the team has dealt with so far this season. Senior forward Jordan Frericks and junior forward Bri Porter both suffered season-ending ACL injuries in preseason.
Bri Porter’s younger sister, sophomore forward Cierra Porter, has been dealing with her own knee pain this year, while sophomore guard Sophie Cunningham has been dealing with a bulged disc in her back.
No longer undefeated – Buffalo falls to Harvard, 74-62. Again, Harvard in the Ivy this year.
So, is Marquette the new boss in the New Big East?
And Bucknell in the Patriot? Or is it Army?
How about Charlotte (9-3) in the C-USA? Or is it Western Kentucky (9-4)?
Fun (successful) experiment with the Seton Hall/St. John’s game. Pirates win.
Every victory is an improvement overt the early years: St. Peter’s over Niagara, 78-66.
Alex Montgomery didn’t need to reach the WNBA to teach some of these drills.
She told her players to line up across the baseline. It was for a drill she has performed thousands of times in her own playing career.
“Everybody knows what a sprint is, right?” she asked.
Their answers were inaudible. Montgomery cupped her hand around her ear and leaned the side of her head in their direction for a more understandable response.
Then she blew her whistle.
“I feel like because I am in the WNBA I am a role model,” Powers said. “For me, I had girls I looked up to when I was growing up.
NBA players use the summer to develop their games. WNBA players are in a paradox of sorts. The WNBA itself is the best professional women’s league in the world, but they only play during the summer. During the winter and fall, most players go to Europe, Asia, or Australia to play where they work to expand their skill sets.
Earlier, we talked about the challenges of evaluating international talent. So now, let’s check up on how the players are doing as we head into 2017.
Elizabeth Williams wants to go to medical school. She followed the pre-medicine track at Duke, majoring in psychology and interning at the university’s hospital before her senior year. Her father is a doctor and her mother is a nurse.
But for Williams, the medical field will have to wait for now. The former Princess Anne star is playing her second year as a professional, suiting up for the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream and a EuroLeague team, Nadezhda, that plays in the Russian city of Orenburg.
“There are no upsets in wbb…” Oh, just. shut.up.
Speaking of upsets, how about this one: Pepperdine (3-8) over Gonzaga (9-3), 79-69. Did they suit up Milton-Jones? Nope, Allie Green.
Nice way to come home – get your jersey retired and watch your team handle its business. #15 Duke pulled away in the fourth quarter to earn a 69-54 win over #17 Kentucky.
Bear-on-a-Roll 2: #3 Baylor rolled over Kansas State by 30.
#7 Seminoles and #11 Hurricanes were close through the first half, then Florida State powered to a 15 point win.
The #25 Orange had a lovely lead in the first quarter, and then the wheels fell off. Badly. #8 Louisville by 15.
Git along, little froggie. #12 West Virginia dispatched TCU, 83-61.
Not much of an in-state rivalry as the Longhorns topped Texas Tech by 20.
Boomer Sooner, indeed. #24 Oklahoma unloaded on Kansas, 84-54.
It still exists, that feeling the Connecticut women’s basketball team can lose. You felt it in faint and flickering moments Thursday night as Maryland activated a sellout Xfinity Center crowd, which responded with wild cheers at the end of a strangely competitive game.
The idea was more than just wishful thinking.
Samuelson — known simply as “Lou” by the staff and her teammates — led the way Thursday. She had 23 points to lead five Huskies scoring in double figures.
This despite the fact that she wasn’t feeling well before the game. She was sick enough, in fact, that Auriemma wasn’t even sure she would play. Samuelson, however, said she never had any doubt.
“Once you start, adrenaline gets you through anything that’s going on,” she said, and that included vomiting during the contest. “There were moments I was a little tired. But our team was doing really great stuff, so that got me excited and hyped up.
What makes this UConn team especially remarkable is its resiliency after it lost Moriah Jefferson, Breanna Stewart and Morgan Tuck, who went on to be the top three picks in the 2016 WNBA draft. Katie Lou Samuelson, the team’s leading scorer, was spotted throwing up in a trash can on the sidelines in the first half. She went 2-for-8 in the first half, including 1-for-6 from the 3, but came back in the second half and finished with 23 points.
“I just think she’s a relentless player,” Slocum said.
Nobody can accuse the Utah women’s basketball team of easing into its Pac-12 schedule.
Coach Lynne Roberts and the Utes open conference play Friday night at 10th-ranked UCLA, just 36 hours before a Sunday afternoon battle against perennial power USC.
Utah is 11-0 for the first time since 2000-01. It has lost nine straight games to UCLA, however, and hasn’t yet faced a player like Jordin Canada, the Bruins’ All-American point guard and national Player of the Year candidate.
Courtney Jaco plays at USC and is Canada’s former high school teammate.
Also, Buffalo held off Fordham to remain perfect. Their in the same tourney as Harvard, now 10-1.
Oklahoma State continues to trot on the edges of the rankings – they defeat Iowa State, 71-59.
From Howard “whoopee I’m writing for the NY Times!” and Gabriella Levine, listen to their Year in Review.
Speaking of the Times, did Tom Jolly get fired? *goggles* NOPE, just not in charge of sports anymore. Which might explain the increased coverage of women’s basketbll, including this: Push the Ball! Box Out! Zone! Did You Get All That, Viewers?
Steve Scheer is a basketball junkie. He had often fantasized about eavesdropping on a coach’s huddle during timeouts. The short, edited snippets on some telecasts were hardly enough to satisfy his appetite for access.
Unlike most fans, though, Scheer was in a position to fulfill his wish. As a senior coordinating producer for college basketball at Fox Sports, and a 37-year sports television veteran, Scheer was better positioned than most to see his suggestion for an all-access, commercial-free, live basketball telecast become a reality.
On Friday, when St. John’s plays at Seton Hall in a Big East Conference women’s basketball game at 7 p.m. Eastern, both head coaches will wear microphones throughout a commercial-free telecast on Fox Sports 2. Viewers will be able to hear not only what is said inside the huddle, but also the live interactions and directions from the sidelines and the coaches’ talks inside the locker rooms at halftime.
UT-Arlington earned a win over Appalachia State. Check out DJ’s Sixmith’s piece on the Maverick’s Rebekah VanDijk, who didn’t start playing hoops until 7th grade.
Brenna Greene offers up the story of Nevada player who’s waited 2 yrs, 9 mos to play a conference game.
Earlier this month, the University of Maine became the third school in the NCAA America East conference to make a statement about playing in the state of North Carolina. On Dec. 3, when the Maine’s men’s basketball team faced off against Duke University, its players warmed up in America East T-shirts with the conference’s logo silhouetted in bright rainbow colors as a symbol of inclusion. The gesture, which won media attention from across the country, was the biggest move made to date by one of the conference’s nine schools over the state’s passing of House Bill 2. It was also the culmination of a four-year partnership between America East and You Can Play, a national non-profit organization that works to ensure the safety and inclusion of all in sports, specifically LGBTQ players, coaches and fans.
The doors swing open and Mike Neighbors is standing at the entrance.
It’s a bright, clear and cool afternoon – the last day of autumn – and the Washington women’s basketball coach guides a tour through his newly purchased Mercer Island house and explains why he finally feels at home in Seattle.
Since taking the job as a Huskies assistant in 2011, Neighbors rented a one-bedroom, one-bath 860-square feet condo in Bitterlake, Wash. that he cherished.
With a certain degree of pride, Foster noticed McGraw’s second-ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish still running that play during their 79-58 win over Foster’s University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Mocs on Tuesday night.
What may have made him happiest — and it was perhaps the only time he was happy all night — was the result of that play.
The University of Memphis women’s basketball team got 26 points and 13 rebounds from Cheyenne Creighton – both career-high totals – to power a 75-59 upset of Vanderbilt Wednesday at the Elma Roane Fieldhouse.
Told ya to pay attention to William & Mary: Junior Abby Rendle got the second triple-double in school history (also got the first), as the Tribe topped East Carolina, 82-72. I his fourth season, coach Ed Swanson has got it goin’ on, opening with the season with the best non-conference slate in school history.
Whoa – huge upset as Ohio (9-2) falls to North Carolina A&T (3-9), 63-57.
“I am really happy for our team,” head coach Matt Bollant said. “It is the first time since 2010 that we started with a win in the Big Ten, and to get it against an Iowa team that we have a lot of respect for is a great way to start.
UC Davis (9-3) topped UCF (10-3), 77-71.
Ugly, but Auburn will take the 53-41 win over Jacksonville.
Gas money from a friend.
Her parents in town to celebrate.
All of these are things that Jessica Jones got for her 21st birthday on Wednesday.
See above for Virginia’s 56-30 win over UMBC.
See above for Xavier’s 54-51 win over Providence.
We see you, Indiana, and your 19 point win19 point win over Penn State.
The Huskies are 11-0, the winning streak they don’t want to think about is at 86 in a row, and they’re soon to face their last likely obstacle before a new benchmark is set.
UConn Women Face Challenge In Maryland; Brionna Jones Big Reason Why.
But here they are, 11-0 through a formidable schedule that included powerful programs like Baylor and Notre Dame, while Maryland, which is at 12-0 under Coach Brenda Frese, has routed most opponents and won its most challenging nonconference game at Louisville.
Even that has not brought college stardom to Gillespie, which makes this meeting less about settling an old score with Auriemma that she says does not exist and more of an opportunity to remind the many people watching back home that she did not have to settle for the Little Sisters of the Poor.
Destini Feagin graduated from FIU with a degree in liberal studies in May.
The FIU women’s basketball coach, Feagin said, pursued her sexually throughout her senior season. Marlin Chinn was fired last March.
Still with FIU, however, is the civil lawsuit Feagin filed in U.S. District Court against the school for sexual discrimination under Title IX and common law battery.
“Destini hopes that the filing of this suit will prevent future female athletes from being sexually exploited and harassed, not only at FIU but at every academic institution in the nation,” said Elizabeth Parker, one of Feagin’s attorneys.
A former Drake University assistant women’s basketball coach was forced to resign from her job after head coach Jennie Baranczyk learned that she was gay, according to allegations made in a federal lawsuit.
The lawsuit filed on behalf of former assistant coach Courtney Graham claims that Baranczyk pressured her to quit approximately six months after the head coach learned that Graham was gay, violating Iowa’s anti-discrimination law. Graham’s lawsuit also claims that her sexual orientation and mental health became the focus of office gossip that was started by Baranczyk.
Oklahoma State opened the season as if it is set on proving the skeptics wrong.
The league race is a two-team battle.
Maryland or Ohio State will win the regular season championship. The Buckeyes and Terrapins are superior in talent and are several lengths ahead of the rest of the conference. Circle Feb. 20 as the date when the title will be decided when Maryland, the two-time defending champion, visits Columbus, Ohio.
On a few occasions in recent months Amy Williams has been welcomed back to the Big Ten Conference, which while polite, is not exactly accurate. She’s never been a part of the Big Ten Conference.
The first-year Nebraska women’s basketball coach was a player at Nebraska, but that was back when the Huskers were in the Big 8 Conference, and later the Big 12.
Mike Neighbors loves to crunch numbers.
Washington’s analytics-minded coach was impressed with what the Pac-12 Conference accomplished in the nonconference portion of the season. The teams went a combined 114-21 (.844), and the Pac-12 has seven teams ranked this week, including the No. 9 Huskies. That’s the most in conference history and doesn’t even include the three other Pac-12 teams that are sitting just outside the Top 25.
Moreover, the conference has an average RPI of 33.1 — more than 13 places better than the second-ranked Southeastern Conference.
When you never make an error, there is no margin.
When Geno Auriemma looks over the schedule that his U. of Connecticut women play, he sees no resting place. The Huskies don’t talk about going .500 on the road. They don’t recognize “trap games.” Their whole lives are winning streaks.
“Our standard is an undefeated season,” Auriemma said the other day, calling as he changed planes on the way to Nebraska, and another win.
Sydney Wiese hit her 300th three-pointer, and passed Pac-12 career mark set by Candice Wiggins. Oh, and the Beavers won.
Irish over Mocs by 21 as Allen gets a triple-double.
The Plum-inator is slacking. Only scored 21 in Washington’s romp over Washington State.
It’s been a wonderful few months for Cal coach Lindsay Gottlieb.
She’s pregnant with her first child due next spring, her team is unbeaten through non-conference play and now the Bears are back in the Top 25. The Bears entered The Associated Press women’s basketball poll at No. 21 on Monday. UConn remained the top choice, as the unanimous No. 1.
The Bears are 12-0 and off to the best start in school history. They open up Pac-12 play in Arizona on Thursday before facing No. 18 Arizona State on Sunday.
Brian Stewart told people so. For four historically triumphant years, he contended that the Connecticut women’s basketball team was greater than the sum of Coach Geno Auriemma’s prize recruits, a conga line of achievers that included Stewart’s daughter, a once-in-a-generation talent by the name of Breanna.
Cal was off to the best start in program history entering last week’s Puerto Rico Classic. However, with a schedule strength that ranked in the bottom half of the country, no one was sure exactly what to make of the Bears’ 9-0 record or just how good they are this season.
They emphatically answered the question in their second game at the South Point Arena (the eight-team tournament was moved from San Juan to Las Vegas due to lingering fears of the Zika virus). And top scorer Kristine Anigwe provided the necessary emphasis.
Thursday night, she turned back the clock with one of her best performances in nearly three years as a double-double of 14 points and 11 rebounds helped UNI (7-4) upset No. 24 Kansas State, 67-59.
A coach doesn’t go 546-375 over 34 seasons by being lucky.
Especially when that coach competes in the Ivy League.
The Ivy is one of the top two academic leagues in D1 women’s basketball — along with the Patriot League — and Harvard head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith has done a masterful job with the Crimson despite the academic rigors and standards that hold Ivy schools to higher a standard.
Turn back the clock to Oct. 8, 2016.
It was the day before the Montana women’s basketball team lost Big Sky Conference preseason MVP Kayleigh Valley to a non-contact injury in practice. Even then — with Valley, senior post Alycia Sims and junior forward Mekayla Isaak heralded as returning starters — it was going to be hard for the Lady Griz to win the conference.
Now that Valley and Sims have been lost for the season with knee injuries, Montana’s climb toward a potential third league title in five years seems incredibly steep.
When Danielle Page made the Serbian national women’s basketball team, and Serbia qualified for the 2016 Olympics, Page became just the second Nebraska women’s basketball player to make an Olympic team.
Page’s former teammate, Chelsea Aubry, was a captain for the 2012 Canadian Olympic team.
Once at the Olympics, Page did one better, becoming the first former Husker women’s basketball player to win a medal when she helped her adopted country to its first-ever Olympic medal in women’s basketball, a bronze.
Speaking of which, wondering what’s on tap for today? Click here.
Q: I remember talking to you during the whole (WNBA) draft process. Were you surprised you didn’t get drafted?
A: Not really. (Laughs.) Like I said before, in my mind, I always thought it was a 50-50 chance. If you got drafted, you got drafted. If you didn’t, well, you know, then it is what it is.
Q: You still believe you can play in the WNBA, don’t you?
A: I still think I can. It’s up to me to get better. Nothing is impossible.
I’m sure you’re wondering, what are The Five Best Arenas in D2 Basketball?
One of the game’s greatest Australian players and the finest product to come out of the Dandenong Basketball Association, Penny Taylor will be returning to Dandenong to be part of the WNBL Jayco Rangers 25 Year Anniversary celebrations on Saturday 14 January 2017.
The recently retired Taylor will be the headline act on this special occasion to mark a significant milestone of Rangers involvement in the elite Women’s National Basketball League with every past player, coach and sponsor being invited to be part of the day.
The team wearing the jerseys is the Javon Lady Phenoms from Arua, Uganda, an East African country which is one of the poorest in the world.
Yea, history! Utah has rich history of basketball as game celebrates 125 years Boo shortchanging the women’s game!
Dave Zirin discusses why was 2016 the year of the “activist athlete“? Check out a discussion with Nick Kapetan.
After the captains met at midcourt, Morgan Kennedy, the lone senior on the girls basketball team at West Catholic Preparatory High School in Philadelphia, was sobbing. She gathered herself together during the pregame prayer before audibly losing it again, head shaking, lips quivering, during the national anthem.
Beautiful Murray-Bey, a sophomore forward, squeezed Kennedy’s shoulder. Zayda Wilson, a sophomore guard, bit her lip and reached for Kennedy’s hand. The Lady Burrs were hosting their first home game of the season last week, but the night’s emotions were over a former teammate who last played on this court more than six months ago.
In the early-morning hours of June 12, Akyra Murray, 18, was celebrating her graduation from West Catholic at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. She was the youngest of the 49 people killed that night in one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.
Coach Tanya Warren (last year’s 2016 Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year) has been building a strong program at the University of Northern Iowa. Want proof? They just toppled newly ranked #24 Kansas, 67-59.
Dressed in ugly Christmas sweaters, fans of Northern Iowa’s women’s basketball team received a surprise gift Thursday night inside the McLeod Center. UNI turned a potential defensive mismatch into a strength while coming through with timely shooting on the perimeter en route to a 67-59 upset over No. 24 Kansas State in a rare test against a Top 25 opponent.
The win marks UNI’s first victory over a ranked team since defeating No. 24 Wichita State by nine points on Feb. 16, 2014. The program hadn’t defeated a Top 25 opponent in non-conference play since a 74-70 victory over No. 24 Illinois on Dec. 2, 2000.
The Plum-inator poured in 29 to drive #9 Washington to a 12 point win in Provo.
Ouch. Georgia loses to Samford (no disrespect intended to the other Bulldogs), 65-59.
It’s not been a stellar season so far for Tulane, but a win over Auburn might help set the ship aright.
As seniors, this is the last opportunity to elevate Parkinson’s program to another level. They believe the non-conference schedule has the Jaguars prepared for the upcoming Summit League race where South Dakota State looms as the favorite.
But Wednesday’s win proved IUPUI is ready to take the next step.
Five years ago, Alex Sharp was like many other young people in Australia, playing a range of sports with no one focus. However one basketball disappointment at age 14 changed all that. Since then, the Wake Forest commit and #1 Australian recruit has made basketball the major part of her life. She has subsequently reaped the rewards for her dedication, playing for Australia in two under-age FIBA World Championships, and winning five straight Australian Junior Championships.
“I’ve always been a really active person and did a lot of sports up until when I was about 15 and knew that basketball was the game for me,” Sharp explained in speaking with The Pick and Roll.
Spurning a number of offers from schools on the west coast, Dandenong Rangers WNBL squad member and Under 19 Oceania champion Chloe Bibby has verbally committed to high-flying Mississippi State and will be the only Australian woman playing in the entire state in 2017.
Saniya Chong was feeling just about every symptom possible.
Your Montana State bio notes the academic success your student athletes have had and the community service they have performed. Why are those two things so important to you, and where did that emphasis come from?
The emphasis on academic success came from my upbringing as the daughter of educators. My dad was superintendent of a school district and my mom was a teacher, and going trough college was a big priority for me, and it was always very clear that higher education was a prestigious calling. I always grew up with the understanding that being disciplined in one area would create that habit in everything we do.
With community service, growing up in my church it was important to give back; that connection was really important. It’s important to me that student athletes understand that their purpose extends beyond the game.
A few hundred miles south of Seattle, Oregon State’s Sydney Wiese knows the feeling. Sort of. If Plum struggles to get people to look past the points, Wiese struggles in their absence to draw due attention beyond the borders of Oregon or at least the Pac-12.
And as the conference season commences Dec. 27, Plum and Wiese are living the reality that making history doesn’t halt its momentum. A season removed from reaching the Final Four, the history that is yet to be written for two programs depends on what comes next. Different though they are in style, Plum and Wiese share that burden.
Dawn Staley kept saying no.
In fact, Staley said, she had never given much thought to coaching before Temple athletic director Dave O’Brien reached out to her in 2000 through a mutual friend.
After the Niners dropped two games over Thanksgiving break they bounced back to the tune of five straight wins.
“We improved, our team took great coaching and criticism and we put that in action by winning our last five. It’s a great feat by our team, and we still know that we’re not there yet,” Consuegra said.
Samantha Hill had been recruited by him to James Madison. Regan Magarity watched video of his Dukes’ teams.
So, when Kenny Brooks took over as Virginia Tech’s women’s basketball coach after last season, those players and the rest of the Hokies were ready to follow his lead.
Women’s college basketball uses a 30-second shot clock. More often than not, by the time an Ohio State possession ticks down to 29, the junior guard Kelsey Mitchell, a 5-foot-8 flash of distilled hoop skills, will have crossed midcourt.
Reaching destinations fast is not anything new for Mitchell, one of the most highly regarded players in the country.
Her father, Mark, now an Ohio State assistant, remembered the moment he first understood Kelsey was on her way to remarkable achievements on the basketball court. He and his wife, Cheryl, have two sets of twins. The boys are four years older than the girls — Kelsey and her sister, Chelsea, now teammates at Ohio State.
Since there won’t be game coverage for a couple of days after Friday, the Guru will offer odds and ends beginning with this posting revealing his ballot on a panel to identify 10 at-large moments to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament.
The conference will have a top 20 derived from the panel’s submission of 10 picks each from a major list of nominees submitted by each school.
Somewhere to be determined each school submitted its own major nominee.
The fun games are over.
By this time next week, the toughest conference in America, the Southeastern, will kick off on the first day of 2017.
Thus the run to April in Dallas at the Final Four is in focus. We have reserved seats there.
The battle to win 20 and gain an NCAA entry ticket – no Southeastern Conference team has ever won 20 and not been in, though Tennessee got a gift entry with 19 last season – is now hampered by the league season.
As mythology has it, if you can win 20 while playing in the SEC . . .
Gymnastics helped me to lay the foundation for my eventual transition to basketball. I grew to be 6 feet tall by the age of 11, had a ridiculous wingspan and was “made” for the game. I often reflect on a conversation I had with my grandmothers prior to playing collegiate basketball, one that still sticks with me. These sprightly, 80-year-old women told me detailed stories about their adolescent hoop dreams. They recounted feelings of frustration while playing half-court basketball when they knew they had so much more to give. They described how they watched the men blissfully display their talents and abilities in a full-court setting.
My grandmothers simply could not wrap their minds around the idea that women were too weak to extend their game to a full 94 feet. While these forward-thinking women may not have been taking off from the free throw line, they still itched to dribble coast-to-coast and defy the odds.
New York Times: PAT SUMMITT – She made her statement about the power of women by relentlessly pursuing every victory.
Summitt’s genius stemmed from her ability to perform multiple jobs at once. She could track 10 players and the clock, recall an entire season’s worth of plays and see patterns evolving. She could watch tape, take notes, make recruiting calls, joke with reporters — media were always welcome; the real goal was promoting women’s sports — and console a player whose grandmother was sick. She could help Tyler, as a youngster, with his homework, do laundry, cook dinner, make recruiting calls (she was always making calls), churn homemade ice cream and shoo raccoons off the porch. She could also drive 120 miles per hour while applying mascara, steering with her knees or talking on the phone.
Her commitment to the Lady Vols was consuming. Summitt continued chatting up one prospect at her home in Pennsylvania well after she, Summitt, went into labor. She enlisted players’ parents as deputies. No, ma’am, you’re staying, she instructed them to tell their daughters when they called home after brutal practices, wanting to quit.
Around the Rim’s got UCLA Cori Close. REALLY interesting discussion about how the coaches in the Pac-12 came together to grow the conference. Loved her discussion about her responsibility to prepare players for “when the ball goes flat.” Connects to this article: Women Are Missing In Sport Leadership, And It’s Time That Changed.
My latest research, based on the Sydney Scoreboard Global Index for Women in Sport Leadership, shows that women chaired only 7 percent (5 of 70) of international sport federations in 2016 (see table below). This is the same as in 2012, so no positive change has been achieved in the past four years. Women occupied 19 percent (12 of 64) of chief executive positions in 2016, up from 8 percent in 2012.
So men hold a staggering 93 percent of chair or president roles and 81 percent of chief executive positions. This means the key leadership positions in global sport governance and management remain largely elusive for women.
WB: Did you choose Louisiana Tech because it was one of the best programs, or because it was in Louisiana?
VJ: (Laughs) I never told anyone this…. I was playing with my brothers outside one day, and my mom called me in the house and she said, “VJ, there’re some girls on TV playing basketball.” I think [La Tech] was playing against Cheryl Miller. And I said, “You know what? You see the team in the blue with the stars? That’s the team I wanted to play for – with the stars.” ’Cause I wanted to be a star. (Laughs) That’s why I went to Louisiana Tech. The stars.
Video from SNY: Stefanie Dolson on coming out in the ESPN article. Think for a moment what it will mean to be an out woman in Trump’s Washington and just try to tell me sports aren’t political. Which raises the question, After a year of great victory and great unrest, will athletes continue to rise up in 2017?
In the final months of 2016, which saw the year transform from tumult into crippling clarity, an authoritarian image for an authoritarian time stood out as definitive: the spectacle of sports, particularly every Sunday in the NFL. The veneer of patriotism baked into the sport’s DNA created an appearance of unity and oneness designed to obscure cultural divisions and intimidate dissent.
The truth is that the year could not have been less clean, less unified. When the flags flew, black football players knelt. So did WNBA players, white and black, protesting American racial conditions as a team. So did Megan Rapinoe of the U.S. women’s soccer team, members of which fought their own governing body for improved working conditions and equal pay, for footing commensurate to their win totals.
As I approach my 25th birthday, I realize that I have been blessed with the best brother ever! He has watched my entire career unfold over the past 15 years the good, bad and ugly, the tears, the failures, and all of the successes. He was at the gym in his car seat when I was running and doing Miken drills. He traveled and watched every game that I have played from AAU to USA basketball to the WNBA. One of my fondest memories was an AAU game in California when he was supposed to just be passing out water during a timeout. Instead, he came into the huddle and yelled at me to REBOUND! He was five!
DePaul v. Georgetown, 2pm. ’cause why not?
East Carolina (9-3) v. William & Mary (9-1), 7pm I mean, look at that! W&M has NINE wins!
Jacksonville (9-3) v Auburn (9-4), 7pm Can the Dolphins continue their growth?
Indiana (10-2) v. Penn State (10-3), 7pm Quietly putting up winning records.
Minnesota (9-4) v. #12 Ohio State (10-4), 7pm. Both teams can score and are somewhat allergic to defense. Debbie Antonelli Alert!
Xavier (8-3) v. Providence (8-3), 7pm Matchup of rebuilding programs.
Buffalo v. Fordham, 12pm Undefeated v. Feisty.
UNC Asheville v Harvard, 2:30. The Crimson’s at 9-1, y’all.
#1 UConn v. #4 Maryland, 6pm. Something about a streak?
#18 Kentucky v #17 Duke, 7pm. The Blue Devils haven’t really played anyone since their surprise win over South Carolina, so this will be a nice measuring stick.
#19 Syracuse v. #8 Louisville, 7pm. How does the Orange bounce back from getting smoked?
#7 Florida State v. #11 Miami, 7pm. The Seminoles only loss was (Romero-lesss) to UConn. Miami’s loss was to #18 Kentucky in the first game of the season. Fun in-state battle setting up.
#2 Notre Dame v. NC State. The Wolfpack’s moved to 10-3, 8-0 at home. Good test.
#24 Kansas State v. #3 Baylor, 8pm. Will the Wildcats regroup and give the Bears a run for their money?
Oklahoma State v. Iowa State, 8pm. Would a win over the Cyclones earn the Cowgirls the respect of pollsters?
Cal v. Arizona, 9PM. The Bears are still waiting for the win that will get them ranked. Games against ASU and Oregon State follow.
So, the last time Wyoming beat a ranked team”Do You Remember” was a top-10 song (no, I didn’t remember it either). Who’d they beat? #22nd-ranked TCU. This time they beat (no longer) undefeated #15 Colorado, 82-75.
“They’re just tough,” Leonard said of the Cowgirls, who beat the Buffs for the second year in a row. “They work really hard and they capitalize on your mistakes.
Billikens win! No, it wasn’t over a ranked team, but it is a non-pushover SEC team: Missouri. Behind junior point guard Jackie Kemph, a Nancy Lieberman Award nominee, St. Louis exploded in the fourth to come away with a signature win for coach Stone’s program, 72-61.
I said there was something weird in College Point. TAMU smooshed #19 Syracuse, 105-84. At least the Orange’s uniforms are getting rave reviews.
#1 UConn over Nebraska by 43.
#6 South Carolina over Savannah State by 40. Check out Tim Nash’s piece on Dawn and the Gamecocks’ rise.
#8 Louisville’s strong fourth helped them survive Vanderbilt by 12.
#12 Ohio State over Winthrop by 40.
#13 West Virginia (team of the week) over Mount St. Mary‘s by 32.
#14 Stanford over George Washington by 19.
#17 Duke over Villanova by 18.
#18 Kentucky escaped Washington State by 2.
#20 Oklahoma over Portland State by 14, but it wasn’t as confidence invoking as you’d think.
#21 South Florida over UNLV by 35.
#23 Virginia Tech over Radford by 19.
Buffalo’s still undefeated. Toledo looms.
After a 86-47 win over St. Bonaventure, UB women’s basketball remains defeated at 9-0 and set a new record for the best start in program history.
“It’s huge for us. We work so hard every day to provide that and we really wanted to get it last year but that was upset. So to get it this year and be able to bring that to Buffalo, we’re just trying to bring something to this town and make this a destination,” junior guard Stephanie Reid said.
Lynne Roberts’ Utah’s still undefeated. They’ve got #10 UCLA on the 30th.
Yes, I’m a broken record. Remember when IUPUI was a hot mess? They just beat Purdue, 67-62.
As the team has had a habit of doing this season, the IUPUI women’s basketball team (9-3) made history Wednesday (Dec. 21), defeating Purdue (9-5) 67-62 in a furious second-half rally to drop the Boilermakers for the first time in program history. Head Coach Austin Parkinson defeated his alma mater for the first time in four meetings, as the Jags continue to rewrite the history books.
“It was great to see our kids come out strong in the second half and give ourselves a chance to get back in the game,” Coach Parkinson said of his team’s effort.
Just ’cause it’s fun to say: Elon over Akron.
Even with all the cream puffs on their calendar, Arkansas had some close calls. This one wasn’t really close: Oral Roberts over the shorthanded Razorbacks, 70-60.
Wow – it has been a tough year, but North Dakota pulled it together and beat San Diego (who’ve lost senior Maya Hood to an ACL), 65-61.

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