| Source | Writers | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| NATIONAL COVERAGE | national web sites | Links to the TV networks and websites with a national overview |
| ESPNW Women's Basketball | Mechelle Voepel, Graham Hays, Kate Fagan, Charlie Creme, Rebecca Lobo, Melanie Jackson and Michelle Smith. | 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 | New page format and new writers from other media outlets. |
| HoopFeed | started by Cheryl Coward | National coverage by top women's basketball writers and has list of TV games |
| Phillyhoops.com | Mel Greenberg and others | Follows teams in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Mid Atlantic |
| ESPNW Basketball Podcast | Beth Mowins and Debbie Antonelli | Weekly podcasts BACK 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. New link on the way for Mel. | Postings by the guru, the man who originated the women's basketball poll, are always insightful |
| NCAA.com | college sports news | Good links to history, rankings, statistics and previews of upcoming games. |
| 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 final AP Poll March 18, 2013 
| 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 | Rallo is an AP Poll voter. |
| 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 now works for espnW. |
| 5--Duke | Raleigh News-Observer | Also coverage of UNC, NC State. |
| 6--California | San Francisco Chronicle | college sports page |
| 7 --Kentucky | Lexington Herald Leader | Kentucky Sports Page |
| 8--Penn State |
Centre Daily Times Walt Moody | CDT is PSU's hometown paper. |
| 9--Texas A&M | The Eagle | sports page has Aggie Sports |
| 10--Tennessee |
Knoxville News-Sentinel
Dan Fleser The Tennessean | Tennessee pages |
| 11--UCLA | no local coverage | all men's sports, all the time |
| 12 --Maryland |
Washington Post and Baltimore Sun | Both have Terps pages plus ACC stories. |
| 13--North Carolina | Raleigh News and Observer | sports page |
| 14 --Georgia | Atlanta Journal Constitution | college page for Georgia |
| 15--Delaware |
News Journal Kevin Tresolini | sports page |
| 16--Louisville | Courier-Journal | Coverage on the sports page |
| 17--South Carolina | The State | GoGamecocks team page, also Clemson |
| 18 -- Dayton | Dayton Daily News | sports page |
| 19--Colorado |
Boulder Daily Camera Brian Howell | Sports Page and Buff Page |
| 20--Wisconsin Green Bay | Green Bay Press-Gazette | Wisconsin Green Bay sports page |
| 21--Purdue |
Lafayette Journal and Courier Mike Carmin | Boilers home pages and Carmin votes on the AP Poll |
| 22--Syracuse | Syracuse Post Standard | sports page |
| 23--Iowa State | Ames Tribune | ISU Cyclone page |
| 24--Nebraska |
Lincoln Journal Star
Ken Hambleton and
Omaha Herald | Husker Extra at Star and Big Red page at Herald |
| 25--Florida State | Tallahassee Democrat | Sports page |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2013 D-1 Championship | NCAA | Details on the 2013 D-1 Championship in New Orleans |
| 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 |
| 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. |
