NCAAW
Cori Close: ‘I don’t really think we try to focus on the pressure of being No. 1’
After less than two seasons on the job in the Big South, Scott Merritt is out as Gardner-Webb’s head basketball coach
Pierce: ‘We’re learning lessons here, and we just got to start to figure it out and put it together’
Alabama State head coach Freeman Jackson: ‘She’s always been a double-double machine’
Montgomery: ‘I take being a role model very seriously’
Cori Close: ‘When she gets the opportunity and the light, she will shine’
Baker: ‘You just read the defense. You never want to fight it’
Haugejorde is proud of her role in Hawkeye history
The Hawkeyes sit at 4-6 and 15th in the Big Ten
Carly Thibault-DuDonis: ‘[Grit] is what this team has always hung our hat on’
