2011 NCAA WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT HIGHLIGHTS
Recapping the ups and downs from the 2011 Women’s NCAA Tournament and Texas A&M’s run to the championship.
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NIKKI CALDWELL NAMED HEAD COACH OF LSU WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
BATON ROUGE – Nikki Caldwell, who won national championships as both a player and an assistant coach at Tennessee and turned UCLA into a national power in just three years, has been named the head women’s basketball coach at LSU, vice chancellor and director of athletics Joe Alleva announced on Saturday.
Caldwell, [...]
Baylor’s Brittney Griner Named 2011 WBCA National Defensive Player of the Year
ATLANTA – Baylor University’s Brittney Griner is the 2011 WBCA National Defensive Player of the Year, the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association announced today.
The WBCA Defensive Player of the Year award honors the best defensive collegiate Division I women’s basketball player. All Division I Conference Defensive Player’s of the Year are eligible to be nominated for [...]
NCAA WOMEN’S DIVISION I TOURNAMENT VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS | TEXAS A&M DEFEATS NOTRE DAME FOR FIRST EVER WOMEN’S NCAA BASKETBALLTITLE
2011 NCAA Women’s Tournament Highlights
~THE AGGIES ARE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!!~
~Final Seconds – National Championship~
Texas A&M Trophy Presentation
Texas A&M Championship Post-game Reactions
Texas A&M beats Notre Dame 76-70 for NCAA title
“The championship is the first in a major sport for Texas A&M since the football team won it all back in 1939. And it comes at [...]
Dennis Wolff named Virginia Tech Women’s Basketball Head Coach
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Dennis Wolff has been named the sixth head women’s basketball coach at Virginia Tech.
Wolff replaces Beth Dunkenberger, who resigned as head coach of the Tech women’s program on March 14.
Wolff recently completed his first season as the Director of Men’s Basketball Operations & Assistant to the Head Coach for the Virginia Tech [...]
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Women’s Road to the Final Four- Home Court Advantage
It’s no secret that the Selection Committee for the Women’s NCAA tournament makes a concerted effort to place teams within their home region in hopes of increasing attendance. For example, UCONN is always in the East while Stanford is always in the West, and so on.
It’s also [...]
JMU’S SENIOR GUARD BATTLES KIDNEY DISEASE WHILE LEADING COUNTRY IN SCORING
James Madison University senior point guard Dawn Evans leads the country in scoring averaging 25.3ppg, she is also battling an incurable kidney disease. The 5′7″ senior guard from Clarksville, Tennessee suffers from FSGS.
Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis(FSGS) attacks the kidney’s filtering system and causes scarring, which in turn is one cause of Nephrotic Syndrome, a serious condition that occurs [...]
UCONN BOUND SENIOR NAMED State Farm®/WBCA H.S. PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis Named State Farm®/WBCA High School Player of the Year
ATLANTA – Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.) High School senior Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, considered by most experts to be one of the best shooters in the country, is the 2011 State Farm®/WBCA High School Player of the Year, the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association announced today.
“Congratulations to [...]
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL: UCONN RECLAIMS #1, STANFORD & BAYLOR ROUND OUT TOP 3
The Top 25 women’s basketball coaches poll, with team’s RECORDS THROUGH MONDAY in parentheses, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, ranking in last week’s poll and first-place votes received:
Dropped out: No. 22 St. John‘s, No. 25 Penn State.
Others receiving votes: St. John‘s (18-8) 45; Texas Tech (19-7) [...]
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL WEEK 14 D-II RANKINGS: UNDEFEATED CLAYTON STATE LAKERS IS #1
Week 14 Poll: February 22, 2011
USA TODAY ESPN Division II Top 25 women’s basketball poll, with first-place votes to the right, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th.
Dropped Out: Millersville University of Pennsylvania; Rollins College (Fla.); Emporia State University (Kan.).
Others receiving votes: University of Wisconsin – [...]
