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.
“It’s crazy … I keep wanting to call somebody and say ‘Tell me how we did this in two years.’ I don’t know.”
“[Tonight] was a great opportunity for them to be nervous, and they weren’t.”
Pac-12 leads all conferences since 2015-16 in Final Four appearances
“I just wanted to find the love I had for the game again.”
Kamie Ethridge has turned the tide for the Cougars program that is experiencing unprecedented success.
The Rebels’ 80-57 win over their in-state rival was witnessed by a sellout crowd of more than 2,500 — the first in program history
The Pac-12 has nine teams currently in the Top 64 positions in the NCAA Net Rankings — eight of those teams among the Top 41