Posts by Emily Adler

Hunter Cruse covers the Atlanta Dream and the WNBA Draft for The IX Basketball.

The IX Basketball’s 2026 WNBA Draft Board, V1.0

October 14, 2025

The most detailed 2026 WNBA draft resource available outside a team’s actual war room

How Atlanta’s defense helped it take Game 1 over Indiana

September 15, 2025

Rhyne Howard: ‘Our mindset was we wanted to punch first, and we knew it would be a dog fight’

Who’s Next — The Next’s 2025 WNBA Draft Board, V2.0

April 8, 2025

The most detailed 2025 WNBA draft resource available outside a team’s actual war room

‘She can be one of the greatest at Duke’: Inside Toby Fournier’s freshman season

March 31, 2025

Fournier scores a game-high 18 points in Elite Eight loss to South Carolina

Tennessee sets the foundation with successful first season of the Kim Caldwell era

March 30, 2025

Caldwell: ‘[We] did exactly what we said we were going to do, which was get Tennessee back into the top 25’

How Hailey Van Lith led TCU to first Elite Eight in program history

March 29, 2025

Madison Conner: ‘She’s been at an Elite Eight every year in college; that’s a testament to how hard she works’

Takeaways: MiLaysia Fulwiley helps South Carolina avoid Sweet 16 upset

March 29, 2025

Dawn Staley: ‘MiLaysia just wants to win’

Takeaways: How Duke knocked off North Carolina to advance to its first Elite Eight since 2013

March 29, 2025

Oluchi Okananwa: ‘Playing under Coach Lawson, she’s created this culture where we want to play defense’

Sania Feagin’s WNBA draft stock is on the rise

March 12, 2025

Staley: ‘I never let Feagin play less than her standard. That meant she sat a lot, but this year, it paid off’

South Carolina’s Te-Hina Paopao is poetry in motion

March 7, 2025

Paopao: ‘It makes me better and gives our team more options when I play with pace’