Posts by Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith has covered women’s basketball nationally for more than three decades. A 2024 inductee into the U.S. Basketball Writer’s Hall of Fame, Smith has worked for ESPN.com, The Athletic, the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as Pac-12.com and WNBA.com. She 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.
More than two years after the conference imploded, one of the biggest losses remains its women’s basketball brand
A 7-0 start has put the Cardinal on the verge of being ranked with their toughest non-conference stretch to come
The Bears have veteran leadership in Lulu Twidale and fresh star power in Puff Morris to lead them back to the NCAA Tournament.
After losing 70% of all-conference performers from last season, ACC teams are looking for fresh starts all around
The Valkyries’ margin for error in this playoff series is razor-thin, but they’ve defied assumptions all season long
Golden State’s magic number – the combination of Golden State wins and Los Angeles losses to secure a playoff spot, the first in league history for an expansion team, sits at three.
At first, the Valkyries were ‘killers.’ Now, they’re something even more effective
Brink doesn’t know yet what she has learned from this experience
Nyanin has made a decision to stand pat with the gritty, resilient team she has built
