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• Rutgers Suspends Stringer for Seton Hall Game
• By Michelle Smith 2/09/2010 7:26 PM ET
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• Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer was suspended Tuesday by the university for the misuse of a male team manager as a practice player, in violation of the NCAA policy. Stringer, a ... More »
• Stanford Gets Championship Lesson From 1990 Title Team
• By Michelle Smith 2/08/2010 6:36 PM ET
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• Timing is a funny thing. Sometimes it's good even when you don't plan it that way. The Stanford women's basketball program was looking for the right weekend to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the ... More »
• They Make Buckets, We Make Brackets
• By Michelle Smith 2/05/2010 10:50 PM ET
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• INDIANAPOLIS -- Thursday night, I sat in a conference room at the NCAA national headquarters, a beautiful complex located at White River State Park, which also is home to a couple of museums, ... More »
• No. 4 Nebraska Easily Rolls to 20-0
• By Michelle Smith 2/03/2010 11:59 PM ET
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• LINCOLN, Neb. – The sign went up behind the Nebraska bench as the seconds ticked off the clock, "20-0". On a Wednesday night in early February, more than 10,000 people came out to ... More »
• It's Finally Game Time for USC's Gemelos
• By Michelle Smith 2/03/2010 8:15 PM ET
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• There are plenty of comeback stories in sports -- inspiring tales of athletes returning from some kind of adversity or injury. But there aren't many stories like that of Jacki Gemelos. The USC guard ... More »
• It's Been Rough Sledding in Big 12, SEC
• By Michelle Smith 2/01/2010 6:01 PM ET
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• Let's play a round of that popular party game, "Would you rather...?" Would you rather be Connecticut and Stanford, running through conference opponents like hot knives through butter? Or would you ... More »
• Marissa Kastanek Relishes Lasting Link to Kay Yow
• By Milton Kent 2/01/2010 3:25 PM ET
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• In their last conversation, Kay Yow and Marissa Kastanek talked as much about basketball as they did about life. Perhaps the ratio should have been different given that Yow, the legendary former ... More »
• Starbird's Research Helping in Haiti
• By Michelle Smith 1/29/2010 9:34 PM ET
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• Kate Starbird is back in school 13 years after she was the best college basketball player in the land. And she's doing a little world-changing as part of her education. Starbird and her research ... More »
• Women's Hoops Lose on NFL Sundays
• By Michelle Smith 1/25/2010 6:45 PM ET
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• There are things in life that are too much to hope for. Peace on earth. That everybody has enough to eat. That it doesn't rain on the teacher workday that the kids get off from school. And that ... More »
• Stanford Pulls Through Fray With Ducks
• By Michelle Smith 1/23/2010 11:00 PM ET
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• EUGENE, Ore. -- Old MacArthur Court isn't dead quite yet. Oregon's bandbox home gym has a few more weeks of basketball life left before it is replaced by the Matthew Knight Arena next season. Mac ... More »
• Washington's Tia Jackson on Hot Seat
• By Michelle Smith 1/22/2010 2:41 AM ET
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• SEATTLE -- It's got to be tough to be "on notice." But that's the way Washington Coach Tia Jackson is coaching her third season in Seattle. After her first two seasons saw a 21-40 record, five players ... More »
• Georgetown Keeping Winning Streak Real
• By Milton Kent 1/21/2010 6:24 PM ET
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• A 15-game winning streak, a spot atop one of the nation's power conferences and the highest ranking since many of the players were toddlers might be cause for a celebration among some basketball ... More »
• USC's Michael Cooper Apologizes to UCLA for Expletive
• By Michelle Smith 1/20/2010 8:23 PM ET
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• Michael Cooper had made a great first impression as the new USC women's basketball coach. His second impression needs some work. Cooper, the former NBA star who won five championships in the ... More »
• Riley Carrying Okla. State on Her Back
• By Michelle Smith 1/20/2010 4:55 PM ET
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• This season's burning questions leading into the Big 12 season were: How quickly would Baylor become dominant with Brittney Griner? How would Oklahoma move forward without the Paris twins? Could ... More »
• Notre Dame Women Look to Rebound After UConn Loss
• By Milton Kent 1/19/2010 4:35 PM ET
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• The Notre Dame women's basketball team was cruising along with an unbeaten season, a No. 3 national ranking and a world of confidence. That is, until Saturday night, when top-ranked Connecticut ... More »
• Notebook: Missing UConn-Tennessee Series More Than Ever
• By Michelle Smith 1/18/2010 6:20 PM ET
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• Even Dick Vitale knows that Connecticut and Tennessee should be playing during the regular season. After watching Saturday night's Connecticut blowout of No. 3 Notre Dame; after watching ESPN set up ... More »
• Is Duke the Next UConn Victim?
• By Michelle Smith 1/17/2010 5:05 PM ET
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• Next. That would be Joanne P. McCallie's Duke team on Monday night. And don't think the Duke coach doesn't realize what kind of night it's probably going to be for her 7th-ranked Blue Devils on their ... More »
• Battle of Unbeatens Becomes First Women's GameDay
• By Milton Kent 1/17/2010 3:30 AM ET
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• STORRS, Conn. -- With an hour to go to air, Lee Fitting got the loving, but firm needle from Jay Bilas that it was time to stop talking to a reporter and time to get down to the business of putting ... More »
• UConn Women Show Off in Primetime
• By Anthony Olivieri 1/17/2010 2:45 AM ET
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• STORRS, Conn. -- It took Connecticut's women's basketball team less than six minutes to dispatch third-ranked Notre Dame in Saturday's primetime showdown at Gampel Pavilion. Tina Charles had 23 points ... More »
• James Madison's Dawn Evans the Best Player You've Never Heard of
• By Milton Kent 1/15/2010 10:05 PM ET
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• If you could have magically wiped out seven seconds from Shanae Baker-Brice's Thursday night, it would have been pretty terrific. Too bad Dawn Evans wasn't willing to oblige. Baker-Brice, a senior ... More »
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