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 February 9, 2010)

Women's College Basketball Web Sites With National And Regional Information


SourceWritersSummary
NATIONAL COVERAGE national web sites Links to the TV networks and websites with a national overview
ESPN/ESPNU Mechelle Voepel, Graham Hays, Rebecca Lobo, 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 varies 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 mostly men's and some 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 varies Men's coverage dominates. Click on College BB to read AP story.
Fox Sports wire service AP stuff.
Yahoo
Women's Basketball
AP wire stories Running AP's latest photos and Rivals.com
CBS Sportsline wire service Helpful tournament history and last year's All-America teams.
Teams in the
Feb. 8, 2010 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
San Jose Mercury
Former Chronicle writer Michelle Smith runs a pay site focusing on west coast women's basketball at leftcoasthoops.com
3--Nebraska Omaha Herald College basketball page with Big 12 teams coverage
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-Tennessee Knoxville News-Sentinel
Dan Fleser/Mark Burgell
The Tennessean
Govols xtra coverage includes women's basketball. UT home page in the Tennessean
6--Xavier Cincinnati Enquirer
Shannon Russell
Xavier sports page
7 -- Ohio State Columbus Dispatch
Jim Massie
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Doug Lesmerises
Dispatch and Plain Dealer have OSU home pages.
8 -- Duke Raleigh News-Observer
Edward G. Robinson III
Also coverage of UNC, NC State
9 --West Virginia Charleston Daily Mail West Virginia page
10 --Florida State Tallahassee Democrat
Corey Clark
nolesports page
11--Baylor Waco Tribune-Herald
Brice Cherry
Baylor sports page.
12--Oklahoma Daily Oklahoman
Jason Kersey/Justin Harper
Also coverage of Oklahoma State and Tulsa.
13 --Texas A & M The Eagle
Robert Cessna
Aggie Sports home page
14 --Texas Austin American-Statesman
Mark Rosner
Longhorns page with links to women's basketball
15 --Oklahoma State Stillwater News Press
Ryan Steele
Oklahoma State Team Page
16--Georgetown Washington Post
Kathy Orton
Use the Georgetown link on the colleges home page
17--Kentucky Lexington Herald Leader Kentucky Sports Page
18 --North Carolina Raleigh News & Observer
Edward G. Robinson III
Robinson covers all three teams in the Triangle. You can read his blog here.
19 --Georgia Atlanta Journal Constitution
Carter Strickland
Athens Banner-Herald
Constitution has Georgia page, Herald has Georgia Women's hoop page
20--Iowa State Des Moines Register
Dan Johnson
Ames Tribune
Ben Gouldsmith
Cyclones Home Page in both
21--Georgia Tech Atlanta Journal Constitution Georgia Tech Home Page
22--Gonzaga Spokesman-Review
Dave Trimmer
Link is to the sports site.
23--LSU New Orleans Times-Picayune
Amy Brittain
The Advocate
William Weathers/Dominic Baudoin
Both have LSU team pages
24--TCU Fort Worth Star-Telegram Texas Christian page
25 -- St. John's Newsday also New York Times, New York Post and New York Daily News minimal if any local coverage of women's hoops
REGIONAL/LOCAL LINKS regional and local newspapers Links to regional and local writers who also are Final Four veterans
Fanhouse Michelle Smith National coverage of NCAA and WNBA
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
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 .
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.


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