Posts by Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith has covered women’s basketball nationally for more than three decades. A 2024 inductee into the U.S. Basketball Writer’s Hall of Fame, Smith has worked for ESPN.com, The Athletic, the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as Pac-12.com and WNBA.com. She 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.
Head coach Heidi VanDerveer representing the family legacy in the NCAA Tournament with the upstart Tritons
North Carolina State, LSU and Baylor fill out the top seeds in Spokane 1.
Connecticut looms as No. 2 seed with Oklahoma and Kentucky as the No. 3 and 4.
Washington State and Oregon State are living in the land of a one-bid league and there is no option but to win the WCC Tournament to move on
In just three months, the WNBA’s first expansion team in 17 years will tip-off at the Chase Center in San Francisco and it was not nearly as apparent as it could have been at NBA All-Star weekend
Even the most salary cap space in the WNBA hasn’t been enough of an enticement for top free agents
The Cardinal are 10-9, a far cry from their usual standard, but head coach Kate Paye lauds her team’s positivity
There are plenty of good reasons to join the league’s new expansion team