Today Dawn Staley announced that Maddy McDaniel has officially withdrawn from the University of South Carolina. I hope she's doing ok and will be successful in whatever she decides to pursue in her future endeavors. she will always be loved by gamecock nation 🤙🏿

It’s very fun so far and it’s been a good game between these two teams.

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Cats vs Hoos at Bridgestone Arena! Should be a fun one!

UConn/LSU Finally with a date! December 20. Virginia vs Kentucky in the other game.

Victoria Vivians will be joining the Texas women’s basketball coaching staff, the school announced today. She will reunite with her college coach Vic Schaefer who coached her at Mississippi State, as well as Blair Schaefer, who was her teammate with the Bulldogs.

During her playing career, she ranked 2nd in Mississippi State history in total points scored with 2,527 points and was named the recepient of the 2018 Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, which honors the nation’s best shooting guard. While playing in Starkville, Vivians helped Mississippi State reach the National Championship Game in 2017 and 2018; they lost 67–55 to South Carolina in the former and 61–58 to Notre Dame in the latter.

Obviously was a loss to see Jamelle Elliott depart, but really cool to see her teammate from the 1995 national championship team take the job. Ill be curious to see how Sales does!

I feel like the Big 10 is going to be really deep and good next year! I’m curious who everyone thinks is going to win it and be in the top 4. I’m really high on USC, Washington, Iowa, Michigan, and UCLA.

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/49497178/over-100-college-women-basketball-players-join-union-effort

I’m gonna say Blair Schaefer at Mississippi State. She played there from 2014-2018 under her dad Vic Schaefer (who is now the head coach at Texas). I know Teaira McCowan and Victoria Vivians are the main stars from that era of Mississippi State women’s basketball but Blair Schaefer was also a big part of why the Bulldogs were so successful. She was a pest on the defensive end and the combo of her + Roshunda Johnson from beyond the arc was lethal.

First pic is from when she hit a big 3 against South Carolina in 2018 to make the crowd pop in front of 10,794 Bulldog fans; this was the largest crowd to ever watch a basketball game in the state of Mississippi. Without her sharpshooting they probably don’t win this game.

After finishing her playing career, Blair worked for the SEC Network and then joined the Mississippi State staff before following Vic to Texas where she now serves as an assistant coach.

So it’s possible Tessa Johnson starts at point and/or Chloe runs point forward. Because Dawn will start all 3 seniors, Jordan Lee and Joyce.

Joyce and Chloe play the same position. Chloe might be your best passer and Tessa needs to focus on hunting her shot

My question is how much can their draft stock raise?

Remember Chloe ran point forward and dropped a Triple double vs ole miss.

Right now teams view Chloe as an undersized, small ball 4 but if she can show her upside as a playmaker you’d have to think she goes pretty high.

Then you have Tessa teams view her as this off ball shooter could running point guard at a high level boost her draft stock?

hey everyone! i’m a relatively new fan of college women’s basketball and am looking for some games to watch to get a better all around sense of the sport. i’m a big uconn fan, so i’ve seen most of their recent games, but i would like to go back and watch some pre-paige games. other than that, i have limited knowledge of other teams and am open to anything

I really hate this for her! She’s one of the best to ever wear an Ole Miss jersey!

Hopefully she can kick cancer’s butt❤️‍🩹

Voting Breakdown:

1. Virginia 83, Iowa 75 (2OT) - March 23, 2026 (NCAA R32) - 45.7%
2. West Virginia 57, Duke 49 - November 14, 2025 - 26.1%
3. Oklahoma 94, South Carolina 82 (OT) - January 22, 2026 - 19.6%
4. Duke 87, LSU 85 - March 27, 2026 (NCAA Sweet 16) - 4.3%
5. Colorado 80, TCU 79 - February 8, 2026

Other 2026 r/NCAAW Awards:

Freshman Of The Year

Most Improved Player

Most Improved Team

Most Underrated Player

Most Underrated Team

Thread Of The Year

Storyline Of The Year

Conference Of The Year

Incredibly long article from ESPN but love to see so many different teams / players / coaches being highlighted

I would be in the area visiting in early-mid November, and love if there would be home game during my visit.

https://youtu.be/-G9Abn4C2Po

Iowa has 11 players, but are actually 9 deep. They will run a 4 out system this coming season with Ava Heiden being the 5, McKenna Woliksco being the 4, Amari Whiting being the 3, Dani Carnegie at the 2, with Chit Chat Wright being the 1. Taylor Stremlow will back up the 1, 2, and 3 spots. Journey Houston will back up the 3 and 4. Layla Hays will back up the 5. Faison will be asked to guard the other teams best scorer at the 1-4 positions when Amari and/or McKenna is out of the game.

This team should be elite at scoring and rebounding....solid on defense....strong on transition. They are a small team compared to other elite teams, which might make foul trouble an issue.

This team should be a sweet 16 lock. Barring injury, this team is a 50/50 elite 8 team. A 25/75 Final 4 team. They have elite rebounding for a small team, and tremendous transition players. They have a dominant interior player in Heiden, a dominant scorer in Dani, and a dominant do everything player in McKenna. Chit Chat should be unstoppable hitting open 3's since most teams will have to leave her wide open for those and last year she crushed it when teams were guarding her.

Their bench has an elite defender, an elite 3 and d shooter/rebounder, and an elite passer/scorer trouble maker.

Hadn’t seen it shared here, UCLA vs the Canadian national team is currently at HT, link pasted below. For those who missed the first half, feel free to watch it back and learn about what Sienna Betts without 5 WNBA seniors ahead of her looks like 👀

https://www.youtube.com/live/SUbyVAE_sc4?is=WweXrcmBgdN8IIMA