Freshman guard Tara Arnold has seen only four minutes of action for the Western Kentucky women’s basketball team this season, spending most of the time at the end of the bench with her warm-up jersey still on.
But all things considered, Arnold wouldn’t have it any other way.
Despite offers from Transylvania, Asbury College and some other [...]

Another chapter was written Saturday in the storied women’s basketball rivalry between the University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University.
Trailing 60-52 with 6:05 remaining, the Rockets rallied with a 10-0 run to claim a 66-63 victory and snap their 12-game losing streak to BGSU.
When BG guard Tracy Pontius’ potential game-tying 3-pointer bounced off the [...]

THE Bendigo Bank Spirit remains on track to qualify for the Women’s National Basketball League play-offs despite dropping from fifth to sixth at the weekend.
The Spirit lost to minor premier Bulleen on Saturday night, but comfortably accounted for the AIS yesterday to take their season record to 11-8 with three games remaining.
The Adelaide Lightning, the [...]

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Ssenior center Krista Phillips (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan/Aden Bowman Collegiate) made two crucial plays during the final minute of the University of Michigan’s women’s basketball game against Penn State to help the Wolverines preserve a 66-62 victory on Sunday afternoon (Jan. 31) at Crisler Arena.
With the Wolverines clinging to a 61-60 lead, Phillips [...]

Baylor’s Brittney Griner should be worried about Ashley Gayle, the Longhorns’ sophomore forward, who will have the assignment of guarding the 6-foot-8-inch freshman phenomenon.
Gayle can block shots, ranking seventh in the country compared to Griner, who is second. And Gayle, like Griner, can even dunk the ball.
She may not be a YouTube star or a [...]

You don’t measure Lady Vols regular-season basketball by mere victories. Margin of victory is what resonates in the most successful program in women’s basketball.
That’s why no self-respecting Tennessee fan would have been caught celebrating three victories in the previous four SEC games. Instead, the two-week stretch will be remembered as four games and not a [...]

In an early showdown of expected Missouri Valley Conference women’s basketball title contenders, Illinois State simply didn’t show.
ISU senior guard Maggie Krick said Friday the Redbirds were “embarrassed and angry” about a 69-44 loss to Creighton on Jan. 2 at Redbird Arena.
Angry enough it seems to do something about it, the Redbirds have won seven [...]

C’eira Ricketts is wearing a look of disappointment and confusion these days.
The Arkansas guard and Fairdale High School graduate is learning the hard way how quickly success can morph into struggles in college basketball. Ricketts was an instant star as a freshman, and she naturally assumed she would be just as good or better this [...]

Jasmine Thomas scored 23 points to help No. 7 Duke beat No. 13 Florida State 73-43 on Friday night.
Krystal Thomas added 10 points and 11 rebounds for the Blue Devils (18-3, 6-0). The only team unbeaten in Atlantic Coast Conference play went up by double figures to stay before Florida State hit its second field [...]

Two weeks ago, the Notre Dame women went to Storrs, Conn., with a better chance than anyone left on Connecticut’s schedule of beating the nation’s top team.
At the very least, people thought it was going to be a game.
It wasn’t.
Unanimous No. 1 Connecticut led then-No. 3 Notre Dame, 42-19, at the half and won by [...]