By Jeff Metcalfe The Phoenix Mercury now know for sure they will win a potential WNBA playoff tiebreaker over the defending champion New York Liberty. Extrapolating much beyond that based…
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No. 13 Sun Devils open with high profile national TV matches By Jeff Metcalfe JJ Van Niel knows how to adapt and succeed. He’s done it so skillfully with Arizona…
By Jeff Metcalfe The countdown clock, unveiled Tuesday at Sky Harbor Airport, showed 226 days until the 2026 NCAA Women’s Final Four, April 3-5 in Phoenix. Which seems like sufficient…
Jeff Metcalfe The Phoenix Mercury rolled out the red carpet Wednesday for Brittney Griner in her first game back to her WNBA home for 11 seasons at an arena that…
By Jeff Metcalfe If the new-era Phoenix Mercury were one piece short of genuine WNBA title contention, they might have filled that hole with a throwback to their glory years….
By Jeff Metcalfe In distinctly different ways, Alyssa Thomas and Paige Bueckers made elite returns from injury Wednesday. Bueckers, in just her seventh WNBA game, scored a season high 22…
By Jeff Metcalfe The longer Kathryn Westbeld was out of the WNBA, the less likely it seemed that a day like Tuesday would ever come. When Westbeld and her younger…
By Jeff Metcalfe Once Marley Washenitz made her not-easy decision to transfer for her final season of college women’s basketball, she stuck to a guiding principle in sifting through a…
By Jeff Metcalfe On the surface, Stephanie Norman leaving Louisville women’s basketball for anything less than a head coaching job seems ludicrous. Norman is among the most successful associate head…
By Jeff Metcalfe Charli Turner Thorne began as Arizona State women’s basketball coaching in 1996 with 40 career wins from three seasons at Northern Arizona and finished in 2022 with…