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.
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’
From the transfer portal to the NCAA Championship Game in one year
Leger-Walker, von Oelhoffen’s jumps to the portal a painful reality
Huskies “miracle team” will face Iowa in national semis
Gottlieb faces off against Auriemma more than two decades after she attended his camp as a high school player
Court will be ready for UConn-USC Elite Eight matchup
USC is more than – and has always been more than Watkins in the same way that UConn has been more this season than Paige Bueckers. But it’s hard to quibble with the excitement, interest and ratings that it builds.
