| Source | Writers | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| NATIONAL COVERAGE | national web sites | Links to the TV networks and websites with a national overview |
| ESPN/ESPNU | Mechelle Voepel, Graham Hays, Melanie Jackson, Charlie Creme and Elizabeth Merrill. | National writers and TV analysts keep you up to date. Creme does bracket predictions. This is the network that holds the contract to televise NCAA Tournament games |
| USA Today | varies | Team index by conference and NCAA tourney index back to 2001. |
| Shootaround with Beth and Debbie | Beth Mowins and Debbie Antonelli | Subscripion Service. Podcasts with two of the best analysts on women's college hoops |
| New York Times | Page includes mostly men's and some women's coverage. | writers to be announced |
| Womhoops Guru Blog | Former Philly Inquirer staffer Mel Greenberg shifts his 40 plus years of experience covering women's hoops to the blog world. Find his most recent posts here. | Postings by the guru, the man who originated the women's basketball poll, are always insightful |
| Women's Basketball Online | Kim Callahan | Lots of links to college, pro and international stories under the "Daily News" heading. TV Schedule link is useful source for women's hoop coverage. |
| NCAA.com | college sports news | launched Dec. 20 by Turner Sports and the NCAA, touts greater focus on feature content. |
| Sports Illustrated | varies | Women's College basketball page but seeing only AP stories. |
| Fox Sports | wire service | AP coverage |
|
Yahoo Women's Basketball | AP wire stories | Running AP's latest photos and Rivals.com |
| Teams in the February 6, 2012 AP POLL 
| Links to the hometown newspapers Updates are ongoing | Notes |
| 1--Baylor |
Star-Telegram Brice Cherry OR Waco Tribune-Herald | Star-Telegram has a Baylor page and Cherry votes on the AP Poll. To read the Waco Trib you must be a subscriber. |
| 2--Notre Dame |
South
Bend Tribune Curt Rallo Chicago Sun Times Steve Tucker | Rallo is an AP Poll voter as is Tucker. |
| 3--Connecticut |
Hartford (Conn.) Courant John Altavilla Connecticut Post Rich Elliott | Hartford paper's web page with aggressive coverage for Husky Hardcores. Post's Elliott is an AP Poll voter. |
| 4--Stanford |
San Francisco
Chronicle
or San Jose Mercury | Former Chronicle writer Michelle Smith runs a site focusing on west coast women's basketball at Left Coast Hoops that has excellent links. |
| 5--Duke |
Raleigh News-Observer
Edward G. Robinson III | Robinson is an AP Voter. Also coverage of UNC, NC State. |
| 6--Miami (FL) | Miami Herald | Eye on the U page |
| 7--Kentucky |
Lexington Herald Leader
Jennifer Smith | Kentucky Sports Page |
| 8 --Maryland |
Washington Post and Baltimore Sun | Both have Terps pages plus ACC stories. |
| 9--Wisconsin Green Bay | Green Bay Press-Gazette | Wisconsin Green Bay sports page |
| 10--Ohio State | Columbus Dispatch | sports page. |
| 11--Tennessee |
Knoxville News-Sentinel
Dan Fleser The Tennessean | Recent Tennessean link sends readers to Dan Fleser's coverage in the News-Sentinel. Fleser votes on the AP Poll |
| 12--Delaware |
Wilmington
News Journal Kevin Tressolini | sports page |
| 13--Nebraska | Omaha Herald | Big Red page |
| 14 --Georgetown |
Washington Post
Kathy Orton | Also Maryland, Virginia and Virginia Tech |
| 15--Texas A & M |
The Eagle Robert Cessna | Aggie Sports home page and Cessna votes on the AP Poll. |
| 16--Purdue |
Indianapolis
Star
andand Lafayette Journal and Courier Mike Carmin | Boilers home pages and Carmin votes on the AP Poll |
| 17--Rutgers |
Newark
Star-Ledger Dave Hutchinson | Rutgers Women's Hoop Page |
| 18--Penn State |
Centre Daily Times Walt Moody | CDT is PSU's hometown paper. |
| 19--Gonzaga | Spokesman-Review | Zags Report |
| 20 --Louisville | Courier-Journal | Coverage on the sports page |
| 21--Georgia |
Atlanta Journal Constitution | Constitution has Georgia page. |
| 22 TIE--Georgia Tech | Atlanta Journal Constitution | Georgia Tech Home Page |
| 22 TIE --North Carolina |
Raleigh News & Observer Edward G. Robinson III | Robinson, an AP poll voter, covers teams in the Triangle. |
| 24--South Carolina | The State | GoGamecocks team page, also Clemson |
| 25--St. Bonaventure | Olean Times Herald | On sports page look for Lady Bonnies |
| REGIONAL/LOCAL LINKS | regional and local newspapers | Links to regional and local writers who also are Final Four veterans |
| full court press | Clay Kallam, Jim Clark | advertises itself as a women's basketball journal |
| HOOPFeed | Cheryl Coward | former Village Voice Chief of Research follows her passion for women's hoops. Here's the link to the Twitter digest. | LadySwish | Vicki L. Friedman | Coverage of Virginia teams |
| Chicago Sun Times | Steve Tucker | Can be a source for area (Illinois, Notre Dame) and national information (although not on a daily basis). Use Tucker's name in the search engine. |
| They're Playing Basketball | Sue Favor | Favor's coverage focuses on the west coast but includes much more than that. |
| OTHER USEFUL LINKS | Various Sources | Tournament goodies, the NCAA's weekly stat rankings and much more | NCAA RPI Rankings | NCAA | RPI rankings of the nation's 343 D-I schools |
| United States Basketball Writer's Assocation | Sports Sections | The USBWA's link page for all newspapers. Links go directly to the newspaper's sports pages. |
| National Polls | Yahoo | Carry AP and USA Today/ESPN |
| 2012 D-1 Championship | NCAA | Details on the 2012 Division I Championship |
| Best of the Web Women's Basketball | Joyce Gilbert | helpful resource for researching women's basketball on the web |
| WBCA | Women's Basketball Coaches Association | source for WBCA Awards including the Wade Trophy |
| Women's Basketball State RPI Rankings | A subscriber driven site | Without Jeff Sagarin's or Jerry Palm's rankings this is one alternative. |
| Conference Schools | Yahoo | Links to schools by conference |
| Conference Web Sites | Kim Callahan | Kim's site goes directly to the conference web site and also has links to relevant web blogs |
| National Statistics and Records | NCAA | Updates every Monday starting in January. View data via the pull-down menus or have it sent e-mail |
| Naismith Awards | Atlanta Tipoff Club | Official site for the award honoring the nation's college player of the year. |
| National Awards | WBCA | Links to all of the major awards including Kodak All-Americans and Rawlings/WBCA Player of the Year with names of previous winners. |
| WNBA | WNBA And Others | Home to women's professional basketball. Offers excellent links to writers covering league teams including international journalists. |
| NWBL | National Women's Basketball League | Home to the women's professional basketball league where WNBA players and others compete in the winter. |
| WNIT | Women's Post and Pre season National Invitation Tournament | Link goes to both the preseason and postseason tourneys . |
| GBall Magazine | Dave Wohlhueter and others | A magazine for fans of girls' basketball. Includes Wohlhueter's college poll and news during the season. |
