The women’s college basketball transfer portal is starting to fill up, including:

◻️ Raegan Beers
◻️ Hailey Van Lith
◻️ Taliah Scott

A look at the top 15 prospects in the portal, from Chantel Jennings:

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NEW: Kentucky accused of “complicity” as former swim coach Lars Jorgensen allegedly committed sexual violence

Multiple former swim team members say abuse spanned “years”

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🚨 NEW The Athletic WBB SHOW! 🚨

Closing out NCAAW season w/ Ben Pickman & Chantel Jennings!

- The Final (18.9M) Viewership Numbers
- Tara's Retirement
- Coaching Carousel in the NCAAW
- Transfer Portal Drama

TAP IN!

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Tears of joy streaming down the faces of a number of London Lions. London became the first British team to win a European basketball trophy.

And yet reporting from The Athletic from last month said it will not be competing in Europe next season
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Some pretty thrilling pro women's basketball on right now.

London up 2 on aggregate with 15.4 seconds remaining in the game against Besiktas. A EuroCup title on the line.
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Here's our newser on the Fever having 36 national broadcast and streaming games this year, and going from 1 ESPN/ABC/ESPN2 game to 8 ESPN/ABC/ESPN2 games this year:
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As a point of comparison:

Indiana played 1 game on ESPN last year, and did not play a game on either ESPN2 or ABC

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The WNBA announced its broadcast and streaming schedule.

The Indiana Fever will be featured by WNBA national broadcast and streaming partners 36 times. The Las Vegas Aces (2x defending champs) will be featured 35 times.

LV and NYL will both be on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 8 times each

With Shams Charania:

How Arkansas hooked John Calipari and why the Hall of Fame coach was ready to move on from Kentucky.

Calipari told The Athletic he’s ready to create a “love affair” with the Hogs. And when he knew the love was gone in Lexington.

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A week in the life of Garrett Temple: on his future, fatherhood, being a husband, teammate, PA executive, novice candle-maker and more:

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It’s the last mock draft before the big day Monday at ⁦The Athletic WBB⁩, otherwise known as the stage of the exercise where I finally realize just how good Nika Mühl is. theathletic.com/5403860/2024/0…

That the retirement announcement would come at 10:35 p.m. Eastern on a Tuesday after the season had already finished says everything you need to know about Tara VanDerveer, the winningest coach college basketball has ever seen.

On a legend and her legacy:
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Statement from UConn women’s basketball’s Geno Auriemma on Tara VanDerveer’s retirement:

Our The Athletic WBB newser on Tara VanDerveer announcing her retirement.

W/ Sabreena Merchant:
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News: Stanford announces that Tara VanDerveer is retiring.

Assistant coach Kate Paye, who has been with Stanford for the past 17 years, will be her successor. ⬇️

🔊The Athletic WBB National Championship recap 🔊

Sabreena Merchant, Chantel Jennings and I break down South Carolina-Iowa title game and reflect on the weekend. As Chantel said, 'It's been a f---ing blast'

Then, a way-too-early 2024-25 lookahead
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To put this in perspective, this game drew more than:

• All but four college football games in 2023.
• Every World Series game since Game 7 of the 2019 WS.
• Every NBA Finals game since G5 of 2017 NBA Finals.
• Every Daytona 500 since 2006.
• Every Masters final round…

Some pretty remarkable notes here, via ESPN...

-Excluding football and Olympics, Iowa-SC was the most-watched sporting event since 2019.
-Also the most-watched basketball game since '19

Curious to relive any of the game. Read up on various angles ➡️ theathletic.com/womens-college…

“They were not afraid of the moment and they were chomping at the bit to get in.”

Wrote about South Carolina’s MiLaysia Fulwiley and Tessa Johnson, and their journeys to Sunday’s title game. On the spark they provided and what might be to come:

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“Honestly, I just hope we’ve brought a lot of people joy and we’ve brought a lot of people together.'

Column: The legacy of Iowa WBB may start with Caitlin Clark and its consecutive title appearances, but its real meaning is how people felt watching them.
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