| 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. Team index by conference and NCAA tourney index back to 2001. |
| CBS CollegeSports.com | Official College Sports Network from NCAA.com | Links to student athlete blogs. All three divisions represented. |
| Shootaround with Beth and Debbie | Beth Mowins and Debbie Antonelli | Podcasts with two of the best analysts on women's college hoops |
| New York Times | Page includes men's and women's coverage. | writers to be announced |
| 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. Links to college boards. |
| 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, Mina Mandell 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 | Running AP's latest photos and Rivals.com |
| CBS Sportsline | wire service | history of past champions, All-America teams |
| Teams in the Oct. 30, 2009 AP POLL 
| Links to the hometown newspapers Updated Nov. 5, 2009 | Notes |
| 1--Connecticut |
Hartford (Conn.) Courant John Altavilla, Lori Riley, Paul Doyle | Hartford paper's web page with aggressive coverage for Husky Hardcores. |
| 2--Stanford |
San Francisco
Chronicle Michelle Smith San Jose Mercury | Look for Killion under columnists in Mercury. |
| 3 -- Ohio State |
Columbus Dispatch Jim Massie Cleveland Plain Dealer Doug Lesmerises | Dispatch and Plain Dealer have OSU home pages. |
| 4--Notre Dame | South Bend Tribune or Chicago Sun Times | first link to Irish Sports Report (registration required). Look for Steve Tucker in Sun Times |
| 5 --North Carolina |
Raleigh News & Observer Edward G. Robinson III | Robinson covers all three teams in the Triangle. You can read his blog here. |
| 6 -- Duke |
Raleigh News-Observer
Edward G. Robinson III | Also coverage of UNC, NC State |
| 7--Baylor |
Waco
Tribune-Herald
Brice Cherry | Baylor sports page. |
| 8-Tennessee |
Knoxville News-Sentinel
Dan Fleser/Mark Burgell The Tennessean | Govols xtra coverage includes women's basketball. UT home page in the Tennessean |
| 9--LSU |
New Orleans Times-Picayune Amy Brittain The Advocate William Weathers/Dominic Baudoin | Both have LSU team pages |
| 10 --Michigan State |
Detroit Free press Mark Snyder | Michigan State page |
| 11--Xavier |
Cincinnati Enquirer Shannon Russell | Xavier sports page |
| 12 --Texas |
Austin American-Statesman Mark Rosner | Longhorns page with links to women's basketball |
| 13--Oklahoma |
Daily Oklahoman
Jason Kersey/Justin Harper | Also coverage of Oklahoma State and Tulsa. |
| 14--Virginia |
Charlottesville Daily
Progress Richmond Times Dispatch | Times Dispatch has coverage of Virginia colleges |
| 15--Florida State |
Tallahassee Democrat Corey Clark | nolesports page |
| 16--Arizona State |
Arizona (Phoenix) Republic Jeff Metcalfe | registration required to read team page for Arizona State |
| 17 -- DePaul |
Chicago Sun Times Steve Tucker Chicago Tribune Jack McCarthy | Coverage on the Colleges Page |
| 18--California |
San Francisco Chronicle Michelle Smith | college sports page; also covers Stanford |
| 19--Georgia Tech | Atlanta Journal Constitution | Georgia Tech Home Page |
| 20--Kansas | Lawrence Journal World | Jayhawks coverage |
| 21 --Georgia |
Atlanta Journal Constitution Carter Strickland Athens Banner-Herald | Constitution has Georgia page, Herald has Georgia Women's hoop page |
| 22--Vanderbilt | Nashville
Tennessean Mike Organ | Team page for Vandy sports. Also covers Tennessee. |
| 23 --Louisville |
Courier-Journal
Josh Cook | Coverage on the sports page |
| 24 --Middle Tennessee |
Daily News Journal Monte Hale | Middle Tennessee page |
| 25--Rutgers |
Newark
Star-Ledger M.A. Mehta/Brandan Prunty | Rutgers Women's Hoop Page |
| REGIONAL/LOCAL LINKS | regional and local newspapers | Links to regional and local writers who also are Final Four veterans | 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. |
| Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News | Mel Greenberg, Inquirer and John Smallwood, Daily News | Coverage in these papers for Philly schools, Penn State and national coverage from Greenberg's blog . |
| LA Times | sports staff | Pac-10 coverage and local teams UCLA and USC in Los Angeles. |
| 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 | Jennifer Starks | Stanford page |
| OTHER USEFUL LINKS | Various Sources | Tournament goodies, the NCAA's weekly stat rankings and much more |
| 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 |
| 2010 Final Four | San Antonio | Host site with info on the 2010 D-1 Final Four |
| 2010 D-1 Championship | NCAA | Details on the 2010 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 |
| Sagarin's RPI Rankings | Jeff Sagarin | Jeff's rankings same for men and women. He bagan his system in 1974-75. |
| 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 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. |
