There will be no gender-specific qualifier when the incomparable coach becomes the winningest in college basketball history
Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith has covered women’s basketball nationally for more than three decades. A 2024 inductee into the U.S. Basketball Writer’s Hall of Fame, Smith has worked for ESPN.com, The Athletic, the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as Pac-12.com and WNBA.com. She is the 2017 recipient of the Jake Wade Media Award from the Collegiate Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA) and was named the Mel Greenberg Media Award winner by the WBCA in 2019.
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Is Cal turning a winning corner?
Smith: ‘We’re exponentially better’
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Five things we learned from Pac-12 opening weekend
Los Angeles is embracing women’s college hoops, Oregon State is surging and more
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Cougars still looking to find their consistency
‘I don’t think we’re playing our best basketball yet’
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Nonconference grades for every Pac-12 team
Only one team gets an A
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Arizona loses Maya Nnaji to medical school and other Pac-12 news
UCLA’s Emily Bessoir injured, Washington’s defense and more
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Utah moving on without Gianna Kneepkens’ poise, presence and perimeter scoring
Roberts: ‘We had to grieve it’
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UCLA hits a defining non-conference stretch
Close: ‘I think I’m going to know a lot more going into the holiday break than I do now’
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Pac-12 teams propelled by fifth-year players
Pac-12’s final year as we know it could also be its best, thanks to a crop of college elders
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Kiki Iriafen is the key to Stanford’s success
‘She is going to surprise a lot of people this year.’
