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Rebeka Mikulasikova scored a career-high 31 points and Taylor Mikesell added 30 to help No. 4 Ohio State beat Rutgers 82-70 on a day the Scarlet Knights honored former coach C.

Aliyah Boston and Kamilla Cardoso each had double-doubles and No. 1 South Carolina dominated on defense in a 79-54 victory over Memphis.

South Carolina remains the unanimous No. 1 choice in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll.

Aliyah Boston will be examined Monday after leaving No. 1 South Carolina’s 85-38 win over Hampton on Sunday with her right foot in a walking boot.

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley and Hall of Fame Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer each wore white long-sleeved T-shirts featuring Brittney Griner's name and image during their game Sunday.

Bree Hall hit a 3-pointer with 42 seconds left in overtime, Aliyah Boston overcame early foul trouble to score 14, and No. 1 and defending champion South Carolina rallied past second-ranked Stanford 76-71 in an early-season showdown.

Zia Cooke scored 15 points and Aliyah Boston added 12 points and six rebounds in No. 1 South Carolina's 85-31 victory over Clemson on Thursday night.

South Carolina remains the unanimous choice at No. 1 in The Associated Press women's basketball poll.

Aliyah Boston had 16 points and 13 rebounds and Zia Cooke added 18 points to lift No. 1 South Carolina to an 81-56 victory over No. 17 Maryland.

Aliyah Boston of South Carolina and Caitlin Clark of Iowa are unanimous choices for The Associated Press preseason women's basketball All-America team.

Brittney Griner spent her 32nd birthday in a Russian prison, awaiting an appeal to her nine-year sentence for drug possession that’s set for next week.

South Carolina went wire-to-wire as the No. 1 team last year and have been the top team for 20 straight weeks.

South Carolina is the unanimous No. 1 team in the preseason AP Top 25 women's basketball poll.

Angel City FC founding investor Alexis Ohanian says there needs to be a safe work environment in the National Women’s Soccer League.

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley is set to receive the Billie Jean King Leadership Award at the Women's Sports Foundation's annual dinner in New York.

Breanna Stewart scored 17 points and the United States raced out to an early lead to put away Canada 83-43, advancing to the gold-medal game of the World Cup for the fourth consecutive tournament.

As a result of its investigation, BYU said it has lifted a ban on a fan who was identified as directing racial slurs toward Duke sophomore Rachel Richardson during the match.

An investigation by Brigham Young University into allegations that fans engaged in racial heckling and uttered racial slurs at a Duke volleyball player last month found no evidence to support the claim.

The NCAA earned praise last year when it agreed to pay referees at its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments equally.

Detained WNBA star Brittney Griner was front and center at The ESPYS.

South Carolina consensus player of the year Aliyah Boston says she turned down a late invite to the ESPYS awards show and was hurt she wasn't asked earlier to attend.

South Carolina women's basketball coach Dawn Staley is calling out ESPN and its ESPY awards show for not inviting national player of the year Aliyah Boston to the ceremonies this week.

Liberty coach Sandy Brondello was on her way to morning shootaround when she heard the news that Russia had extended Brittney Griner’s pre-trial detention another 30 days.

Joel Embiid had 31 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 112-97 win over the Toronto Raptors in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference playoffs.

The Gamecocks beat UConn 64-49 — handing the Huskies the school's first ever loss in the women's national championship game.

Dawn Staley and Geno Auriemma hugged at midcourt after South Carolina ended UConn’s undefeated run in NCAA championship games.

The Gamecocks ended the Huskies' undefeated streak in championship games with their 64-49 victory and capped a wire-to-wire run as the No. 1 team in the country in The Associated Press poll.

Destanni Henderson scored a career-high 26 points to lead South Carolina to a 64-49 victory over UConn in the national championship game.

Dawn Staley and South Carolina buttoned up on defense and won their second national championship, stifling UConn for a 64-49 victory that ended the Huskies’ undefeated streak in title games.

Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies have gone 11-0 in NCAA title games and will look to continue that success when they face South Carolina for the women's basketball title Sunday night.

The South Carolina Gamecocks have had the top spot in the Associated Press Top 25 poll the entire season.

Aliyah Boston had 23 points and 18 rebounds to back up her AP National Player of the Year award and carry South Carolina to the NCAA championship game.

Dawn Staley's Gamecocks have protested during the national anthem since at least January 2021 "to bring awareness to racial injustice in our country."

Aliyah Boston of South Carolina is The Associated Press women's basketball player of the year.

Kim Mulkey is The Associated Press women's basketball Coach of the Year in her first season at LSU.

There was a time, not that many years ago, when predicting who would win the women’s NCAA Tournament was not that difficult.

Double-digit seeds are leaving their mark on the first weekend of the women’s NCAA Tournament and bouncing some of the top players and teams in the country, including Iowa's Caitlin Clark and Baylor's NaLyssa Smith.

Maeva Djaldi-Tabdi of Miami led all scorers with 15 points.

March Madness is finally part of the women’s NCAA Tournament vernacular and the first round has so far aptly fit that phrase.

Aliyah Boston scored 10 points and had 12 rebounds while top-seeded South Carolina’s stifling defense held Howard to the fewest points ever in a women’s NCAA Tournament game in a 79-21 victory.

The women's NCAA Tournament features a dozen Black female head coaches, doubling the number from last year's tourney.

Kentucky's Rhyne Howard has become the ninth player in women’s basketball history to earn first-team Associated Press All-America honors three times.

South Carolina finished the season where it started — at No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll.

South Carolina has expectedly earned the No. 1 overall seed in the women’s NCAA Tournament.

South Carolina is still No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll despite suffering its second loss of the season.

Dre’una Edwards hit a 3-pointer from the top of the key with 4.2 seconds left, and the Kentucky Wildcats rallied from 15 points down to upset top-ranked South Carolina 64-62 to win their first Southeastern Conference women’s tournament championship since 1982 and second all-time.

Mississippi is in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll for the first time in 15 years, coming in at No. 24.

South Carolina beat two more ranked opponents to strengthen its grip on the No. 1 spot in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll.

South Carolina remains the No. 1 team in The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll despite its first loss of the season.

A relatively quiet week because of the holidays left The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll mostly unchanged.

Aliyah Boston made the go-ahead layup with 1:05 to go and No. 1 South Carolina rallied from 18 points down to upend defending national champion and second-ranked Stanford 65-61 on Tuesday night.

This week's Battle 4 Atlantis men's college basketball tournament in the Bahamas headlines the list of offshore events returning to the sport amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

South Carolina is the unanimous choice as the No. 1 team in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll.

Aliyah Boston had 22 points and 15 rebounds to help No. 1 South Carolina beat second-ranked UConn 73-57 to win the inaugural Battle 4 Atlantis tournament championship.

The release of The Associated Press women’s basketball poll will be delayed a day because of a Monday afternoon matchup between the top two teams.

College athletes and recruits are now allowed to engage in "NIL activities" consistent with state law where their school is located.

According to ESPN, the Hall of Famer recently made history by becoming the highest-paid Black head coach in women’s basketball after receiving a contract extension. The deal is historic as she is now one of the highest-paid basketball coaches in the country. Under her guidance, the Division I basketball team has hit several milestones, solidifying the school as a top contender in the South-eastern Conference. Staley says the contract signifies the University of South Carolina’s commitment to investing in the advancement of its women’s basketball program and hopes other institutions will follow suit. Research shows NCAA Final Four men’s coaches make nearly double the average salaries of women’s coaches.

The U.S. defeated Japan 86-69 in group play. It's a record 51st straight win for the top-ranked U.S. dating to the 1992 Games. The Americans are going for their 7th straight Olympic gold medal.

Marcellas Dial Sr. died on Tuesday. He was 42 years old.

(Source BlackNews.com)NATIONWIDE — History was made in NCAA Women’s Basketball when two Black coaches, Dawn Staley and Adia Barnes, led their teams into the Final Four for the first time since the tournament started in 1982. Staley, who is 50-years old, started her coaching career in 2000 and became the head coach of South Carolina Gamecocks in 2008. She previously led the team to the Final Four in 2015 and 2017, winning the latter for the team’s first-ever national title. The two women, who are former WNBA players, are also the first and only former WNBA players who have taken a team to the women’s Final Four. Two Black women representing two programs in the Final Four, something that has never been done before.”

Dawn Staley criticizes NCAA over tournament disparities Dawn Staley, the head coach of South Carolina's women's basketball team, slammed the NCAA over the glaring inequalities between men's and women's college basketball teams. She sat down for an exclusive interview with CBSN contributor Antjuan Seawright to discuss her legacy of being an "odds beater."