Locked On Women’s Basketball

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Locked On Women’s Basketball: Gavin Petersen has Utah Utes contending for Big 12 title

By The Next / January 7, 2025

Petersen: ‘Make sure we’re enjoying our journey together, and the big picture will take care of itself’

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Locked On Women’s Basketball: 2025 Coretta Scott King Classic preview

By The Next / January 6, 2025

Baylor, UCLA, Texas and Maryland will square off in the event

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Locked On Women’s Basketball: Report cards for new WNBA head coaches

By The Next / January 3, 2025

Jackie Powell is joined by Meghan Hall of For the Win to dish out grades for each new WNBA head coach

Courtney Williams (10) wearing a white Minnesota Lynx jersey goes for a layup during a game against the New York Liberty. Sabrina Ionescu and Nyara Sabally look up toward Williams, who is at left. The crowd looks on from behind them. Locked On Women's Basketball logo at top right. Text "Courtney Williams Keeps Rising" at lower left. Headshot of host Howard Megdal at center right.

Locked On Women’s Basketball: Courtney Williams keeps rising for Minnesota Lynx, Unrivaled

By The Next / January 2, 2025

Williams: ‘We all want to win, and it doesn’t matter how we get it done’

Locked On Women’s Basketball: Into the new year with the NCAA

By The Next / December 30, 2024

Heidrick: ‘There is plenty of college women’s basketball that you’ll want to keep your eye on’

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Locked On Women’s Basketball: The lasting impact of Brenda Pitts

By The Next / December 27, 2024

Pitts: ‘I was born with a basketball in my hands’

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Locked On Women’s Basketball: Recapping women’s basketball in 2024

By The Next / December 26, 2024

2024 was a banner year for women’s college basketball and the WNBA alike

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Locked On Women’s Basketball: Lexie Hull on Indiana Fever future 

By The Next / December 23, 2024

Hull: ‘I think our ceiling is at a championship’

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Locked On Women’s Basketball: Which 2025 WNBA draft prospects have disappointed so far?

By The Next / December 21, 2024

Evaluating how Kentucky’s Georgia Amoore, South Carolina’s Te-Hina Paopao and other 2025 WNBA draft prospects have played this season

A thumbnail for the Locked On Women's Basketball podcast with an orange banner and the episode title "Bold WBB predictions for 2025" with an image on the left half of Satou Sabally of the Dallas Wings dribbling in the direction of the camera, and on the right half an image of UConn guard Paige Bueckers facing the camera and looking off to her right

Locked On Women’s Basketball: Bold 2025 predictions

By The Next / December 20, 2024

Jackie Powell and Alex Simon make predictions for the next 12 months of women’s basketball