Woman's Basketball News

The Votes are In

Steven G. Atkinson — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:49:26 +0000

WNBA Fans have voted and the starters are:

East
Tamika Catchings – Indiana
Katie Douglas – Indiana
Candice Dupree – Chicago
Sylvia Fowles – Chicago
Alana Beard – Washington

West
Becky Hammon – San Antonio
Sue Bird – Seattle
Lauren Jackson – Seattle
Swim Cash – Seattle
Lisa Leslie – LA

Where This is Going and Changes

Steven G. Atkinson — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:30:03 +0000

Just added an RSS feed for WNBA news to the sidebar.

Other than that I’m not sure where this blog may be heading. Perhaps I’ll create a stand alone blog that is full of RSS feeds related to Woman’s Basketball.

Suggestions?

Top 25 – December 22, 2008

Steven G. Atkinson — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:15:16 +0000

Ranking/School/Record/Last Week
1. Connecticut / 10-0 / 1
2. North Carolina / 12-0 / 2
3. Texas A&M / 10-0 / 4
4. Texas / 10-0 / 5
5. Oklahoma / 9-2 / 6
6. Duke / 9-1 / 8
7. Baylor / 11-1 / 7
8. Tennessee / 9-2 / 11
9. Auburn / 12-0 / 10
10. Louisville / 10-1 /9
11. Stanford / 8-3 / 3
12. Notre Dame / 9-1 / 13
13. California / 8-2 / 12
14. Maryland / 9-2 / 15
15. Rutgers / 7-2 / 14
16. Virginia / 9-2 / 17
17. Ohio St. / 10-2 / 18
18. Florida / 11-1 / 20
19. Pittsburgh / 9-2 / 16
20. Vanderbilt / 11-2 / 19
21. Oklahoma St. / 8-2 / 22
22. Kansas St. / 10-0 / 23
23. Georgia Tech / 10-2 / 25
24. Arizona St. / 8-3 / 21
25. South Dakota St. / 12-1 / NR

Dropped Out: No. 24 TCU

Top 25 – December 1, 2008

Steven G. Atkinson — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:45:00 +0000

1. Connecticut – Last Week: 1
2. North Carolina – Last Week: 2
3. California – Last Week: 3
4. Stanford – Last Week: 5
5. Texas A&M – Last Week: 8
6. Oklahoma – Last Week: 4
7. Tennessee – Last Week: 9
8. Maryland – Last Week: 10
9. Texas – Last Week: 11
10. Baylor – Last Week: 6
11. Notre Dame – Last Week: 14
12. Duke – Last Week: 12
13. Louisville – Last Week: 7
14. Auburn – Last Week: 15
15. Rutgers – Last Week: 13
16. Vanderbilt – Last Week: 17
17. Purdue – Last Week: 19
18. Ohio St. – Last Week: 20
19. Oklahoma St. – Last Week: 18
20. Virginia – Last Week: 16
21. Michigan St. – Last Week: 24
22. TCU – Last Week: 22
23. Xavier – Last Week: 25
24. Pittsburgh – Last Week: NR
25. Arizona St. – Last Week: 21

Old Dominion and Iowa St. dropped out of the Top 25.

AP Top 25 – November 24, 2008

Steven G. Atkinson — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:29:53 +0000

1. Connecticut (3-0) Last Week: 1
2. North Carolina (5-0) Last Week: 4
3. California (3-0) Last Week: 7
4. Oklahoma (3-1) Last Week: 2
5. Stanford (3-1) Last Week: 8
6. Baylor (4-0) Last Week: 10
7. Louisville (3-0) Last Week: 9
8. Texas A&M (3-0) Last Week: 12
9. Tennessee (3-1) Last Week: 5
10. Maryland (3-1) Last Week: 11
11. Texas (5-0) Last Week: 14
12. Duke (3-1) Last Week: 6
13. Rutgers (2-2) Last Week: 3
14. Notre Dame (3-0) Last Week: 15
15. Auburn (4-0) Last Week: 20
16. Virginia (3-1) Last Week: 16
17. Vanderbilt (4-1) Last Week: 13
18. Oklahoma St. (2-1) Last Week:19
19. Purdue (3-0) Last Week: 21
20. Ohio St. (3-1) Last Week: 17
21. Arizona St. (2-1) Last Week: 18
22. TCU (4-0) Last Week: 24
23. Old Dominion (3-1) Last Week: 25
24. Michigan St. (5-0) Last Week: NR
25. Iowa St. (3-0) Last Week: NR
25. Xavier (2-2) Last Week: 23

Tow Teams are Tie at 25 making the Top 25 actually 26 teams this week. Iowa State and Michigan State enters the Top 25 while Florida State, last week ranked at 22, dropped out.

Top 25 – November 17, 2008

Steven G. Atkinson — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:51:37 +0000

1. Connecticut – Last week – 1
2. Oklahoma – Last Week – 4
3. Rutgers – Last Week – 5
4. North Carolina- Last Week – 6
5. Tennessee – Last Week – 7
6. Duke – Last Week – 8
7. California – Last Week – 9
8. Stanford – Last Week – 2
9. Louisville – Last Week – 10
10. Baylor – Last Week – 19
11. Maryland – Last Week – 3
12. Texas A&M – Last Week – 11
13. Vanderbilt – Last Week – 12
14. Texas – Last Week – 13
15. Notre Dame – Last Week – 16
16. Virginia – Last Week – 15
17. Ohio St. – Last Week – 18
18. Arizona St. – Last Week – 17
19. Oklahoma St. – Last Week – 14
20. Auburn – Last Week – 20
21. Purdue – Last Week – 23
22. Florida St. – Last Week – 21
23. Xavier – Last Week – 22
24. TCU- Last Week – NR (Big Win against Maryland)
25. Old Dominion- Last Week – 25

LSU falls out of the Top 25

This Is a Hellava Team

Steven G. Atkinson — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:54:22 +0000

The Associated Press’ 2008-09 preseason women’s All-America basketball team is determined by the votes of a 45-member national media panel. Here is theie team, and you have to admit it would make a hellava team.

Courtney Paris, Oklahoma, 6-4, senior (Received votes form all 45 voters, only the 6th unanimous preseason All-American joining Holdsclaw, Taurasi, Beard, Augustus and Parker)
Maya Moore, Connecticut, 6-0, sophomore
Angel McCoughtry, Louisville, 6-1, senior
Kristi Toliver, Maryland, 5-7, senior
Andrea Riley, Oklahoma State, 5-5, junior

Others receiving votes (in alphabetical order):
Jayne Appel, Stanford
DeWanna Bonner, Auburn
Tina Charles, Connecticut
Marissa Coleman, Maryland
Briann January, Arizona State
Jantel Lavender, Ohio State
Rashanda McCants, North Carolina
Renee Montgomery, Connecticut
Epiphanny Prince, Rutgers
Takia Starks, Texas A&M
Ashley Walker, California
Morgan Warburton, Utah
Monica Wright, Virginia
Shavonte Zellous, Pittsburgh.

2008-2009 Pre-Season Rankings

Steven G. Atkinson — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:35:42 +0000

1 Connecticut (Big East)
2 Stanford (Pac 10)
3 Maryland (ACC)
4 Oklahoma (Big 12)
5 Rutgers (Big East)
6 North Carolina (ACC)
7 Tennessee (SEC)
8 Duke (ACC)
9 California (Pac 10)
10 Louisville (Big East)
11 Texas A&M (Big 12)
12 Vanderbilt (SEC)
13 Texas (Big 12)
14 Oklahoma St. (Big 12)
15 Virginia (ACC)
16 Notre Dame (Big East)
17 Arizona St. (Pac 10)
18 Ohio St. (Big 10)
19 Baylor (Big 12)
20 Auburn (SEC)
21 Florida St. (ACC)
22 Xavier (Atlantic 10)
22 Purdue (Big 10)
24 LSU (SEC)
25 Old Dominion (Colonial Athletic)

How the conferences fared:
ACC – 5 Teams
Atlantic 10 – 1 Team
Big East – 4 Teams
Big 10 – 2 Teams
Big 12 – 5 Teams
Colonial Athletic – 1 Team
Pac 10 – 3 Teams
SEC – 4 Teams

Women’s NCAA Basketball Championship

Steven G. Atkinson — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:23:57 +0000

On April 8, 2008 at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Florida the Tennessee Lady Vols won their second consecutive NCAA Women’s Division I Championship defeating the Stanford Cardinals. Tennessee reached the finals with a last second shot against LSU while Stanford won easily against the favorite UConn team.

The first Women’s tournament was played in 1982. In that tournament Louisiana Tech was the winner over Cheyney State. The team from Tennessee lead by Pat Summitt lost to Louisiana Tech in the semi-final game. Pat Summitt coached her first game at Tennessee in 1974 and has led a Tennessee team into every tournament. The 2008 game was their 13 championship game.

In the 27 year history of the tournament the only teams to have won more than one championship are; Louisiana Tech, Southern Cal and Stanford each with 2, UConn with 5 and Tennessee with a total of 8.

Louisiana State University (LSU) has appeared in each of the last five final fours. During that time they have advanced to the final set of games under four different coaches. They also have been unable to reach the championship game in any of those years.

From 1982, the first year of the tournament, until 1985, 32 teams played for the championship. The field was expanded to 40 for the 1986-1988 tournaments. There were 48 teams in 1989-1993 expanding to its current 64 teams format in 1994.

Seven times a lower-seeded team has won the championship, including three straight times from 2004 through 2006.

Originally posted on 6ThingsToConsider.com.

I had 2/3 of them right

Steven G. Atkinson — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:09:45 +0000

Now we are down to 8 teams and with my predictions I was right 2/3 of the games. I missed thinking that Duke and Pittsburgh would win, but instead Texas A&M and Stanford reach the Elite Eight.

I still cane be right though with my final four picks since I didn’t have any of these reaching the Final Four.

To recap I think that Maryland, LSU, Tennessee and Rutgers makes the Final Four.