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.

Golden State WNBA team gets its president

January 30, 2024

Jess Smith will serve as the franchise’s first team president

Parity hits the top Pac-12 teams hard

January 29, 2024

Through the first four weekends, the drama has been palpable and the upsets plentiful

Stanford celebrates ‘our coach’ VanDerveer on her record-breaking day

January 22, 2024

Sights and sounds from Maples Pavilion on a historic afternoon

Oregon ‘realistic’ about its up-and-down season

January 19, 2024

Notes from around the Pac-12

The singular figure that is Tara VanDerveer

January 16, 2024

There will be no gender-specific qualifier when the incomparable coach becomes the winningest in college basketball history

Is Cal turning a winning corner?

January 9, 2024

Smith: ‘We’re exponentially better’

Five things we learned from Pac-12 opening weekend

January 2, 2024

Los Angeles is embracing women’s college hoops, Oregon State is surging and more

Cougars still looking to find their consistency

December 28, 2023

‘I don’t think we’re playing our best basketball yet’

Nonconference grades for every Pac-12 team

December 23, 2023

Only one team gets an A

Arizona loses Maya Nnaji to medical school and other Pac-12 news

December 16, 2023

UCLA’s Emily Bessoir injured, Washington’s defense and more