VanDerveer: ‘I just felt I’m ready’
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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Tara VanDerveer’s sudden retirement from Stanford reverberates
VanDerveer spoke to The Next on Tuesday about why this was the right time
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Togethxr creates community with popular events around NCAA Tournament
It’s one thing for a team, league, or tournament to be able to sell tickets and generate excitement. It is an entirely different thing to offer experiences and events that add to the excitement and buzz of an event
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Caitlin Clark is ready for what’s next
She’s gone from the Iowa girl who began her career quietly in the COVID-19 era, with livestreams showing the Hawkeyes’ games on weekday afternoons, to the reason that close to 20 million people will likely have tuned in Sunday to watch her final college game
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Fifth-year senior Kate Martin cements her legacy at Iowa
Caitlin Clark: ‘She embodies Iowa women’s basketball in every single thing she does’
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Te-Hina Paopao is living every transfer’s dream
From the transfer portal to the NCAA Championship Game in one year
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Departures may just be starting at Oregon State, Washington State
Leger-Walker, von Oelhoffen’s jumps to the portal a painful reality
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UConn seniors anchor the voyage to Cleveland
Huskies “miracle team” will face Iowa in national semis
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Lindsay Gottlieb and Geno Auriemma step into the way-back machine
Gottlieb faces off against Auriemma more than two decades after she attended his camp as a high school player
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NCAA apologizes and fixes errant 3-point line in Portland
Court will be ready for UConn-USC Elite Eight matchup
