by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The last time VanDerveer and the Cardinal won the NCAA women’s basketball title, it was eight months before the very first text message was ever sent. That 1992 championship was Stanford’s second in three years. No one could have imagined how long it would...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
Financial details revealed publicly for the first time show that the N.C.A.A.’s budget for the men’s tournament was nearly double that of the women’s tournament in 2019. Read More
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Even in the cavernous Alamodome and in front of a national TV audience, Adia Barnes saw only the faces in the huddle. Her Arizona Wildcats had slayed a giant, and she had one more message for those doubters who had underestimated her team. Read More
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Arizona Wildcats women’s basketball coach Adia Barnes said Saturday that she has nothing to apologize for after she used a middle finger and an expletive in a postgame huddle with her team in the joyous moments following a 69-59 win over UConn in the Final Four....
by admin | Apr 4, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to coaches Dawn Staley of South Carolina and Adia Barnes of the team from Arizona who will make history as the first two Black women to head coaches in the same Final Four. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Just after Sabrina Ionescu turned pro as one of the most decorated college athletes in NCAA history a year ago, the bidding war was off to the races. Nike, Under Armour and Puma all wanted to sign the former Oregon Ducks star, who was the all-time leader in...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
During a meeting of women’s basketball coaches with NCAA President Mark Emmert on Wednesday, Georgia Tech Coach Nell Fortner issued a plea. Instead of treating her sport like a cost to minimize, the NCAA should see it the way so many others increasingly do: as an...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The world now knows Paige Bueckers and Jalen Suggs as freshman phenoms, the outrageously talented point guards leading the top-ranked collegiate teams in the country — the Connecticut women and the Gonzaga men — to their respective Final Fours this weekend. The close...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
There is a circular poetry to this NCAA women’s basketball tournament. It is beautiful and sad, a clash between the game’s evolution and the NCAA’s stagnant leadership in prompting gender equality. It is also instructive, how the sport keeps spinning its history...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
SAN ANTONIO — Every player who goes to UConn is special. She has to be, playing for a team that’s won a record 11 national championships and knowing she is an heiress apparent to the likes of Rebecca Lobo, Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird, Maya Moore and Breanna Stewart....
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