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Griner, Graves headline 2013 Full Court All-American and Freshman Teams

Full Court congratulates our National Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year for the 2012-2013 women’s college basketball season, as well as all the talented athletes named to our NCAA Division I All-American and Freshmen All-American teams.

Louisville's "David vs. Goliath" story is good for the game

OKLAHOMA CITY -- It was the same song, second verse, in the Oklahoma City Regional final Tuesday night as fifth-seeded Louisville, cast in the role of the proverbial David, slew one of the Goliaths of women’s college basketball to punch its ticket to next week’s Final Four in New Orleans.

Berenato out at Pitt

Agnus Berenato will not return as the University of Pittsburgh head women’s basketball coach, Pittsburgh athletic director Steve Pederson announced Monday.
 

Officiating: It's in the eye of the beholder

Coaches for both combatants in Sunday's Sweet 16 upset of top-ranked Baylor by fifth-seeded upstart Louisville had a lot to say about the officiating -- both during the game, when they filled the referees' ears with reactions to virtually every call and non-call, cavorting on the sidelines until one coach was called for a technical that could have cost his team the game, and the other probably should have been -- and in the presser afterward.

Analysis: Cardinals use two-step approach to topple reigning champs

OKLAHOMA CITY -- As the Baylor-versus-Louisville Sweet 16 matchup tipped off, nearly half the press corps was still in the post-game interview room listening to Tennessee coach Holly Warlick lay out her game plan for what nearly everyone assumed would be a Tennessee-Baylor Elite Eight rematch.

All eyes on the Sweet 16 this Saturday

At least fans trying to follow the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament on television won’t be at the mercy of ESPN’s “whip-around” coverage this weekend, as the actual translation of “whip-around” is “ignore the close games while focusing on routs by the top seeds.”

All eight games will be shown Saturday and Sunday, neatly sandwiched, for the most part, around the men’s Elite Eight, and three of those games will feature ESPN’s rightly hyped “Three to See” stars: Baylor’s Brittney Griner, Notre Dame’s Skylar Diggins and Delaware’s Elena Delle Donne.

Griner does it all in home finale

WACO, Tex. -- It’s hard to imagine what more anyone could have asked of Brittney Griner than what she poured out in front of a crowd of 9,652 mostly Baylor fans, including former president George W. Bush, on Tuesday night in her final home game.

Baylor wins, 85-47, to advance to its fifth-straight Sweet 16

Harper out at NC State

RALEIGH, NC -- The North Carolina State Department of Athletics announced today that head women’s basketball coach Kellie Harper will not return in 2013-14.

“We thank Kellie for her service to our women’s basketball program,” said Director of Athletics Deborah A. Yow. “We wish her the best in her future endeavors.”

Bears ready for Griner's last home gome

WACO, Tex. – It’s been unseasonably cold for the last few days in central Texas.