Posts by Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith has covered women's basketball nationally for nearly three decades. Smith has worked for ESPN.com, The Athletic, the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as Pac-12.com and WNBA.com. She was named to the Alameda County Women's Hall of Fame in 2015, is the 2017 recipient of the Jake Wade Media Award from the Collegiate Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA) and was named the Mel Greenberg Media Award winner by the WBCA in 2019.
VanDerveer: ‘I just felt I’m ready’
VanDerveer spoke to The Next on Tuesday about why this was the right time
It’s one thing for a team, league, or tournament to be able to sell tickets and generate excitement. It is an entirely different thing to offer experiences and events that add to the excitement and buzz of an event
She’s gone from the Iowa girl who began her career quietly in the COVID-19 era, with livestreams showing the Hawkeyes’ games on weekday afternoons, to the reason that close to 20 million people will likely have tuned in Sunday to watch her final college game
Caitlin Clark: ‘She embodies Iowa women’s basketball in every single thing she does’
From the transfer portal to the NCAA Championship Game in one year
Leger-Walker, von Oelhoffen’s jumps to the portal a painful reality
Huskies “miracle team” will face Iowa in national semis
Gottlieb faces off against Auriemma more than two decades after she attended his camp as a high school player
