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…
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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…
By Jeff Metcalfe (Video by Jordan Hamm) With the women’s basketball transfer portal opening March 25, Arizona State will move quickly to fill its head coaching opening. ASU announced the…
Story by Jeff Metcalfe The Phoenix Mercury’s first big move in WNBA free agency will be to trade for power forward Alysssa Thomas per multiple reports. BREAKING: The Phoenix Mercury…
By Jeff Metcalfe The Phoenix Mercury last played a complete season without Diana Taurasi and/or Brittney Griner in 2003. The time may have come, though, for a major re-set around…
By Jeff Metcalfe Arizona’s lengthy wait to complete its major sports events host catalogue will be rewarded when the NCAA Women’s Final Four arrives in 2026 with the sport surging…
By Jeff Metcalfe If Arizona State Volleyball head coach JJ Van Niel placed a want ad after the 2023 season, it would have read like this: NCAA Sweet Sixteen volleyball…