Posts by Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith has covered women's basketball nationally for nearly three decades. Smith has worked for ESPN.com, The Athletic, the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as Pac-12.com and WNBA.com. She was named to the Alameda County Women's Hall of Fame in 2015, is the 2017 recipient of the Jake Wade Media Award from the Collegiate Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA) and was named the Mel Greenberg Media Award winner by the WBCA in 2019.
Smith: ‘I’m happy to beat Stanford and I’m gonna act like it, because that’s a really good team’
Balanced Stanford off to a strong 3-0 start thanks to a 3-point barrage
Bold moves breathes new life into Conference of Champions
She will be a very familiar face to many players across the league
VanDerveer: ‘I just felt I’m ready’
VanDerveer spoke to The Next on Tuesday about why this was the right time
It’s one thing for a team, league, or tournament to be able to sell tickets and generate excitement. It is an entirely different thing to offer experiences and events that add to the excitement and buzz of an event
She’s gone from the Iowa girl who began her career quietly in the COVID-19 era, with livestreams showing the Hawkeyes’ games on weekday afternoons, to the reason that close to 20 million people will likely have tuned in Sunday to watch her final college game
Caitlin Clark: ‘She embodies Iowa women’s basketball in every single thing she does’
