Welcome to
Women's
Basketball's Cup of Coffee
A fun resource for SIDs, media
and fans.
Your host is
Mary Jo
Haverbeck
I've been inspired to post
this page by
my own struggles to find
out
what's happening in women's
Division I
basketball before I get to the
NCAA tournament. ESPN's
Mechelle Voepel was
the first person willing
to help me out.
As Mechelle indicated in her
note to me,
"There isn't a lot of
national overview
coverage,
but some of the regional writers
do a good
job."
Here then are some suggested sources
(updated March 19, 2008)
Women's College
Basketball Web Sites
With National And
Regional
Information
| 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 ESPN
magazine writers.
|
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
| Dick
Patrick, Kate Smith, Tim Gardner, Joe Fleming |
When Patrick writes, this is a good read.
Coaches poll history database shows how every
coach voted in every top 25.
|
|---|
|
CBS CollegeSports.com
| Official College Sports Network
Jeff Lippman, Jerry Palm, Debbie Antonelli, Beth Mowins
| New site name a result of CBS taking over CSTV. Podcasts are available.
|
|---|
|
New York Times
| Harvey Araton, Frank Litsky, Bill Finley, William C. Rhoden, Viv Bernstein
| Page includes men's and women's coverage.
|
|
Women's Hoops Blog
| Sara and Ted and friends
| If you're into blogging
and women's hoops, check here. Contributors
often scoop mainstream media. |
|
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.
|
|
Sports Illustrated
| Kelli Anderson, Richard Deitsch, Tracy Schultz and
Sports Network wire stories
| Men's coverage dominates but there are
occasional items on women
|
|---|
|
Fox Sports
| Wire service
| Site has women's NCAA blogs and message boards
|
Yahoo
Women's Basketball
| AP
wire stories
|
Broadcast links
here. |
|
CBS Sportsline |
Wire Service
| Handy Women's NCAA Tournament links go to
past champions, Final Four records, seeds, AP All-America teams
and more
|
|---|
Teams in the March 17, 2008 AP
POLL
| Links to the hometown newspapers
Updated Dec. 31, 2007
| Notes |
1--Connecticut |
Hartford (Conn.) Courant
John Altavilla
| Hartford
paper's web
page with aggressive
coverage for Husky
Hardcores.
| | 2 --North
Carolina
|
Raleigh News & Observer
Rachel Carter |
free registration for UNC coverage.
|
| 3--Tennessee |
Knoxville News-Sentinel
Dan
Fleser/Mark Burgell
The
Tennessean Ryan Callahan
| Govols xtra coverage includes
women's basketball.
UT home page in the Tennessean |
| 4--Stanford
|
San Francisco
Chronicle
Michelle Smith
|
| 5-Maryland
|
Washington Post
Kathy Orton
Baltimore Sun
Milton Kent/Patrick Gutierrez | Free registration required for the Post |
| 6--LSU |
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Kyle Whitfield
The Advocate
William Weathers/Dominic Baudoin |
Both have LSU team pages |
| 7--Rutgers
|
Newark
Star-Ledger M.A. Mehta/Jeremy Cothran/Bridget Wentworth
| Rutgers Women's Hoop Page
|
| 8 --Texas A & M
|
The Eagle
Robert Cessna |
Aggie Sports home page |
| 9 Duke
|
Raleigh News-Observer
Edward G. Robinson III
Durham Herald Sun
Bryan Strickland | On Durham Herald Sun site you must register
to read women's coverage. Also
coverage of UNC,
NC State
|
| 10--California
|
San Francisco Chronicle
| college sports
page; also covers
Stanford |
| 11--Old
Dominion |
Daily Press |
Use Old Domionion in the search engine. |
| 12 --Baylor
|
Waco
Tribune-Herald
Jerry Hill | Baylor
sports page. |
| 13 --Oklahoma
State |
Stillwater News Press
Ryan Steele |
Oklahoma State Team Page |
|
14--Oklahoma |
Daily Oklahoman
Robert Przybylo | Also
coverage of
Oklahoma State and Tulsa. Note: Blog by Oklahoma coach
Sherri Coale is a writer's delight but Courtney Paris also blogs at this site.
|
| 15--Notre
Dame
|
South
Bend Tribune or
Chicago Sun Times
|
first link
to Irish Sports
Report (registration required). Look for Steve Tucker in Sun Times |
| 16--Kansas
State
|
Topeka Capital-Journal
(Derek Boss)
|
Coverage in the CatZone.
|
| 17 --West Virginia
|
Charleston Daily Mail
| West Virginia page |
| 18 --Utah
|
Salt Lake Tribune |
Utah home page |
| 19 --Louisville
|
Courier-Journal
C. Ray Hall
|
Coverage on the sports page
|
| 20 -George
Washington
|
Washington Post | Registration required
|
|
21--Vanderbilt | Nashville
Tennessean Mike
Organ
|
Team page for Vandy sports.
|
|
22--Marist |
Poughkeepsie Journal Dan Pietrafesa |
Sports page coverage
|
|
23--UTEP |
El Paso Times
Bret
Bloomquest
|
Coverage on the sports page
|
|
24--Virginia |
Charlottesville Daily
Progress
Jay Jenkins
Richmond Times Dispatch
| Daily Progress has Cavalier Insider
|
| 25 -- Ohio State
|
Columbus Dispatch Jim Massie
Cleveland
Plain Dealer Doug Lesmerises
|
Dispatch and
Plain Dealer have OSU home pages. |
|
REGIONAL/LOCAL LINKS
|
regional and local
newspapers
| Links to
regional and local
writers
who also are Final Four
veterans |
|
Chicago
Sun
Times |
Steve Tucker
| Can be a source for
area
(Illinois, Notre Dame) and
national formation
(although not on a daily basis). Use
Tucker's name in the search engine.
|
|
Philadelphia
Inquirer and Daily
News |
Mel Greenberg, Inquirer and John
Smallwood,
Daily News
|
Look for the button links in the
upper left corner including AP
Sports, which
has late breaking news.
Coverage
in these papers for Philly
schools, Penn
State and a national
perspective.
|
|---|
|
LA Times
| Mike Terry | Pac-10 coverage and
local teams
UCLA and USC in Los
Angeles. To find
Terry's stories, use his name in
the search
engine. New link to
women's basketball |
|
San
Jose Mercury News
| Ann Killion
|
Coverage of
Bay Area schools including
Stanford, Cal,
San Jose State, Santa Clara.
Columnist Ann Killion sometimes writes
on women's hoops. |
|
Contra Costa Times
| Jonathan Okanes
|
Coverage of
California, links to others
|
| OTHER
USEFUL LINKS
| Various Sources
| Tournament goodies, Tam
Flarup's
national attendance figures,
the NCAA's weekly
stat rankings and much more
|
|
Official Team Web Sites
| Patrick Christie
| Fan's links to
all Division
I team web sites NOTE: not all links are updated
|
|
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 |
|
NCAA Final Four Page
|
NCAA PR Staff
| The
2008 basketball
championship page for Tampa
|
|
Tampa Final Four Page
|
Tampa Bay Sports Center
| Details on the
2008 Final Four.
|
|
National
Attendance
| Tam Flarup,
SID
Wisconsin
| Weekly
rankings of the
top schools by average
attendance.
|
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 |
|
Collegiate Basketball News
| Jim Sukup
| 13 years of presenting the women's RPI Ratings along with
other useful standings (Conferences), percentages, records and statistics.
|
|---|
|
Sagarin's RPI Rankings
|
Jeff Sagarin
| Jeff's rankings same for men and women.
He bagan his system in 1974-75. |
|
|
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|
College RPI Rankings
|
Jerry Palm
| Also offers historical data, bracket projections |
|
Rankings Comparison page
| John Wobus
| New site with links to all RPI lists
and rankings |
|
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 Postseason
National Invitation Tournament
| A 48-team tourney for
teams not in the NCAA bracket. Selections
announced late on the evening of the NCAA Tournament
selections (Monday, March 17).
|
|
GBall
Magazine | Dave Wohlhueter and
others
| A
magazine for fans of
girls' basketball. Includes
Wohlhueter's
college poll and news
during the season.
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