Amanda Marks has resigned as head coach of the University of West Alabama women’s basketball team after nine seasons.
“I guess the best way to put it is that the administration decided to go in a different direction, so I resigned,” Marks said. “I was not really given a reason. The university was not going to [...]

Francis Marion should be getting used to this.
Since Heather Macy took over the coaching position three seasons ago, the Patriot women’s basketball team has made the NCAA Division II tournament with a run-and-gun style of offense that has made FMU one of the nation’s highest scoring units.
Today at noon, the 17th-ranked Patriots look to make [...]

It is almost impossible for members of the Grand Valley State University women’s basketball team not to think about the potential to start hanging up championship banners in the future.
Multiple banners.
The Lakers, whose talented but inexperienced lineup features a pair of freshmen and three sophomores among its top-five scorers, entered the final week of the [...]

Virginia State women’s basketball coach James Hill has some bad news for the rest of the CIAA: His Trojans, the No. 1 seed in this week’s CIAA women’s tournament, will be a stronger, deeper and more dangerous team when they play for the first time in Time Warner Cable Arena.
Hill said he expects his most [...]

The Colorado State University-Pueblo women’s basketball team was in a celebratory mood Thursday night at Massari Arena.
Western New Mexico nearly didn’t cooperate.
Junior Rachel Espinoza needed just 10 points to reach the 1,000-point plateau and she achieved the feat in the first half. The ThunderWolves seemingly responded, playing superb and leading by [...]

They say that good things come in small packages.
This season, it’s been a twin package that has provided coach Janel Burgess and her Grand Valley State women’s basketball team with a major lift.
Freshman identical twins Briauna and Brittany Taylor of Livonia provided the Lakers with another double spark Thursday night to lead them to a [...]

The UAA women’s basketball team will be missing its starting point guard when it travels to Seattle Pacific and Northwest Nazarene this week, but coach Tim Moser is hopeful Kiki Taylor can play again this season.
Taylor, a 5-5 senior, suffered a broken bone in her foot during the Seawolves’ win over Western Oregon on Saturday.
“She’s [...]

Earlier this year, Lane Lord said he wanted the Pittsburg State women’s basketball team to finish in the MIAA’s top three teams.
Halfway through the league season, the Gorillas (9-8 overall, 7-3 MIAA) have done him one better. The Gorillas sit in a tie for second place with Washburn, a traditional MIAA power. But thanks to [...]

The Pittsburg State women’s basketball team kept one streak alive and ended another Saturday afternoon.
The Gorillas’ 71-65 win over Fort Hays State kept PSU’s unbeaten home record intact, while snapping the Tigers’ four-game winning streak. Pitt (9-7, 7-2 MIAA) is now 7-0 at home.
“That’s a big goal for us,” said PSU senior Nicole McCombs. “We [...]

Starts are few and far between for Ashara Carrington on the Southern New Hampshire University women’s basketball team. In 99 career games, she has been on the floor for only 14 opening tips, and 11 of those came in her sophomore season.
But ask coach Karen Pinkos about Carrington, who helped lead Marblehead High to three [...]