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Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer is covered in confetti as her team celebrates her 1,203 win as head coach.

The Weekly Fast Break: A broken record

By Missy Heidrick / January 24, 2024

Tara tops the list, TCU and Arizona weather storms

Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer is covered in confetti as her team celebrates her 1,203 win as head coach.

Stanford celebrates ‘our coach’ VanDerveer on her record-breaking day

By Michelle Smith / January 22, 2024

Sights and sounds from Maples Pavilion on a historic afternoon

Oregon women’s team come together at mid court in a team huddle. They are wearing their white and green home jerseys.

Oregon ‘realistic’ about its up-and-down season

By Michelle Smith / January 19, 2024

Notes from around the Pac-12

Tara VanDerveer smiles during team warmups before a game

The singular figure that is Tara VanDerveer

By Michelle Smith / January 16, 2024

There will be no gender-specific qualifier when the incomparable coach becomes the winningest in college basketball history

The Weekly Fast Break: Defrosting women’s college basketball for 2024

By Missy Heidrick / December 26, 2023

Back to work with sights set on big wins and performances

USC's JuJu Watkins shoots over two Ohio State defenders in the Hall of Fame Series at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., on Nov. 6, 2023. (Photo credit: John McGillen/USC Athletics)

Nonconference grades for every Pac-12 team

By Michelle Smith / December 23, 2023

Only one team gets an A

A picture of the centercourt jumbotron, which is displaying the Ball Dawgs Classic logo

Ball Dawgs Classic refs called wrong 3-point line throughout Thanksgiving tournament

By Emily Adler / December 3, 2023

The Next investigates one of the strangest reffing mix-ups of the year.

Players in Stanford jerseys are pictured side by side against the Locked on Women's Basketball backdrop. The title "Stanford Prospects" is included in the graphic.

Locked on Women’s Basketball: Kiki Iriafen shines against Florida State, Hannah Jump’s defensive growth

By The Next / December 2, 2023

Nation’s best WNBA draft prospect performances from the last week

Colorado fifth-year senior guard Jaylyn Sherrod goes to the basket against LSU on November 6.

Pac-12 teams propelled by fifth-year players

By Michelle Smith / November 27, 2023

Pac-12’s final year as we know it could also be its best, thanks to a crop of college elders

Geno Auriemma does a face palm, as if he's frustrated by his team losing during a blood week

Welcome to Blood Week, women’s college basketball

By Emily Adler / November 19, 2023

The carnage in the AP Poll through two weeks is reaching unprecedented levels