No. 11 Lady Vols can’t overcome Talaysia Cooper’s injury, slow start

Georgia pulled off a 72-69 upset win over No. 11 Tennessee on Sunday in one of the largest upsets in women’s college basketball this season. The Bulldogs earned their first win over an AP Top 25 opponent this season while spoiling the Lady Vols’ senior night in Knoxville. Kim Caldwell’s team was down by 23 […]

LSU’s leading scorer shut down through SEC Tournament due to shin inflammation

No. 7 LSU’s leading scorer Flau’Jae Johnson will miss the SEC Tournament due to shin inflammation, coach Kim Mulkey revealed during the pregame radio show ahead of the Tigers’ 85-77 loss to Ole Miss on Sunday. Johnson is expected to return for the NCAA Tournament. Mulkey explained postgame that she was the one who made […]

Duke’s Toby Fournier emerges in time for postseason

This year’s freshman class was full of surprises. Names we expected to hear all season seemed to fade into faint whispers while others emerged from the curtains to take center stage. For this week’s women’s college basketball Freshmen Tracker, we look at a few overlooked freshmen who could turn into household names as their career […]

JuJu Watkins helps USC clinch Big Ten title

The women’s college basketball regular season had no shortage of excitement. Household names like USC’s JuJu Watkins continued to show why they’re a growing global brand while players like Vanderbilt’s Mikayla Blakes introduced themselves to the world in dramatic fashion. The electricity pulsing through the sport set the stage for a thrilling finish to the […]

USC, UConn rise while Texas retains No. 1 spot; Notre Dame exits top five

The USC Trojans improved to No. 2 in the AP Top 25 poll, their highest ranking since 1986. Lindsay Gottlieb’s team started March on a high note with a win over UCLA on Sunday, which helped them sweep the Bruins this season and also earned the Trojans the Big Ten regular-season title in their debut […]

Texas ends regular season on top, South Carolina reenters top five

Getty ImagesMarch is here, and so are the final CBS Sports women’s college basketball Power Rankings of the season. The top three stays the same as last week with Texas, USC and UCLA leading the way. The Bruins suffered their second loss to the Trojans on Saturday and missed out on the Big Ten regular-season […]

Stanford’s historic NCAA Tournament streak among three key storylines

The calendar has turned to March, which means college basketball takes center stage. While everyone is eagerly anticipating what looks to be a wide open women’s NCAA Tournament, that’s still a few weeks away. First, it’s time for conference tournaments, some of which have already gotten started. Most notably, the ACC, Big East, Big 12, […]

‘We are hunting championships’

When Texas earned its first No. 1 ranking since 2004 a week ago, Vic Schaefer talked to his team about what they had done differently from the previous week. “The answer is nothing,” Schaefer told CBS Sports. “We’ve stayed in the picture, it’s what we’ve done. We’ve just put our heads down, we’ve gone to […]

Analyzing what went wrong, how Cardinal can rebound

Stanford lost to Clemson, 63-46, in the first round of the ACC Tournament on Wednesday, a defeat that will likely end the school’s historic NCAA Tournament streak. The Cardinal have made 36 consecutive NCAA Tournaments, which is second only to Tennessee (42) for the longest streak all time. While Stanford held Clemson scoreless for the […]