
Welcome to The Next: A basketball newsroom brought to you by The IX. 24/7/365 womenโs basketball coverage, written, edited, and photographed by our young, diverse staff, dedicated to breaking news, analysis, historical deep dives, and projections about the game we love.
This is a thank you, paid subscribers, for your vital support. Enjoy this, andย plenty of other inside access to come, as part of your reward for stepping up and making 24/7/365 womenโs basketball coverage possible. Weโre so grateful youโre here.

Tonight @ 7PM ETโฆ The Next Live
In addition to increasing the coverage for womenโs sports and womenโs basketball atย The IXย and atย The Next, weโre going to keep on discussing with you how we do it. Thatโs why for our first edition ofย The Next Liveย will be focused on how weโve honored Black history, and what we can do to take that effort to the next level.
In honor of Black History Month, we are going to encourage our staff and our subscribers (you!) to join us and talk about what Black History means to you, and whatโs been your favorite story centering Black women since we launched. And we encourage everyone to be ready to share how we can improve our coverage of Black folks in the womenโs basketball space.
Come with some stories and suggestions as we celebrate Black history. This subscriber-only chat is scheduled forย TONIGHT 7 p.m. ET. Use this Zoom link to join us.
Thank you for subscribing toย The Next, where 24/7/365 womenโs basketball coverage is our mission. Our young and diverse staff is dedicated to bringing this game the breaking news, analysis, historical deep dives, and projections that it deserves.
We look forward to having this meaningful conversation with you all that will not only reflect on Black history in the context of womenโs basketball but will inform us as to how we can better cover Black stories moving forward.
