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Women's Bracketology: Unbeaten Arizona ascends to No. 1 seed

With 100 days to go before Selection Sunday, the top line has another new team. Unbeaten Arizona joins South Carolina, UConn and NC State as 1-seeds.

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Kianna Smith steals and goes coast to coast for the basket (0:48)

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4dMechelle Voepel

WNBA draft lottery for No. 1 pick set for Dec. 19

WNBA 2022 draft lottery, featuring Indiana Fever, Atlanta Dream, Washington Mystics and Dallas Wings, will be held on Dec 19 at 3 p.m. ET on ESPN.

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5dCharlie Creme

Why Thursday is the best nonconference game day of the women's college basketball season

The Big Ten/ACC Challenge and the Big 12/SEC Challenge are here. We break down which players to watch and the games that will enhance or shatter resumes.

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South Carolina holds at No. 1 amid top-10 chaos

South Carolina remained above the fray, staying put at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 poll, while eight other top-10 teams moved around, led by Maryland's fall from No. 2 to No. 8 after two straight losses.

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7dMechelle Voepel

Women's college basketball Power Rankings: Which teams are thriving and surviving November's tough schedules?

Competitive nonconference schedules have made for a topsy-turvy top 10. Arizona, Louisville, South Florida and Tennessee made the biggest jumps this week.

Kianna Smith drains corner 3 to extend Louisville's lead (0:23)

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14dMechelle Voepel

Women's college basketball Power Rankings: Is Maryland good enough to win the NCAA title?

While South Carolina and UConn prepare to clash in a 1-2 showdown, third-ranked Maryland waits in the wings and passed a big test in beating Baylor.

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2022 women's recruiting class rankings: UCLA overtakes Oregon at No. 1

South Carolina, Georgia and Baylor all landed top prospects, but UCLA's big splash has the Bruins atop the recruiting class rankings.

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21dMechelle Voepel

Women's college basketball Power Rankings: Texas on the rise, Stanford backcourt has work to do

The Longhorns upset the defending NCAA champs in the biggest upset of Week 1. We hand out awards to the best of the week and rank the top 16 teams.

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23dMechelle Voepel

Arizona 'earned respect' with upset of Louisville

Arizona, fresh off its first women's Final Four appearance last season, upset No. 6 Louisville in OT on Friday.

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Everything we learned on the opening day of the women's college basketball season

A top-five clash, a 95-point victory and new faces in new places gave us plenty of takeaways to dissect as women's college basketball returned Tuesday.

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Ranking the 25 best women's college basketball players heading into 2021-22

For our panel of 12 voters, only three points separated the top two players. South Carolina and UConn each put three players on the list.

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33dCharlie Creme and Mechelle Voepel

The biggest questions in women's college basketball entering the 2021-22 season

Can Stanford repeat? What's South Carolina's biggest challenge? What does UConn's starting five look like? Here are the storylines we'll be watching.

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35dMechelle Voepel and Charlie Creme

Women's college basketball transfer rankings: South Carolina, UConn get deeper, Baylor, Syracuse rebuild

Which transfers will make the most impact? Kamilla Cardoso, Jordan Lewis and Dorka Juhasz are all on new teams after a busy offseason of movement.

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39dCharlie Creme

Why UConn starts at No. 1 in top 25 women's college basketball preseason rankings

Stanford is the reigning champ. South Carolina is No. 1 in the AP Top 25. But with perhaps the deepest roster in program history, UConn opens on top.

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L'ville extends women's coach Walz through '28

Sixth-ranked Louisville and women's basketball coach Jeff Walz have agreed to a contract extension through 2028.

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2022 women's recruiting class rankings: Trio of Pac-12 teams lead the way

Six Pac-12 teams find themselves in the top 10 of the recruiting rankings in the Class of 2022. But which one starts at No. 1?

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Which women's college basketball recruits took their games to new levels?

We break down the women's college basketball prospects who rose up the recruiting rankings in the Classes of 2022, 2023 and 2024.

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Which men's and women's college basketball players can cash in on the new NIL rules?

Whether it's social media following, talent or a combination of both, these college basketball players stand to make big bucks in the NIL era.

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Nova men, S.C. women among Jimmy V fields

Tennessee will face Texas Tech, and Syracuse will meet former rival Villanova in the men's pairings announced for the Jimmy V Classic, while South Carolina-Maryland and Louisville-Kentucky games comprise the women's field.

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174dMechelle Voepel

Ex-L'ville, WNBA star Schimmel arrested in Ore.

Shoni Schimmel, the MVP of the WNBA All-Star Game in 2014, is facing multiple felony charges after her arrest Monday in Oregon.