THE GAME: The Oregon State women s basketball team will hit the road this week when it heads to the Southland for a matchup with USC. The game will tip Friday at 2:30 p.m.
FOLLOW ALONG: Friday s game can be viewed live on Pac-12 Networks with Brian Webber and Tammy Blackburn on the call. The game will air live on KEJO 1240 in Corvallis with Ron Callan on the call, and live stats will be available at OSUBeavers.com. Live updates for all Oregon State women s basketball games can be found on twitter @BeaverWBB.
WHAT S UP NEXT: Oregon State will head to Westwood on Sunday for a matchup with UCLA. That game will air live on ESPN2. The Beavers final scheduled game of the regular season is slated for Feb. 28 at Oregon.
WNBA free agency 2021 grades Chicago Sky, Las Vegas Aces score high marks
Courtney Vandersloot s Chicago Sky and A ja Wilson s Las Vegas Aces were two of four teams that received A or A-minus grades.
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Mechelle Voepel covers the WNBA, women s college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus series Formerly a consultant with the Indiana Pacers
WNBA free agency began Feb. 1. Unlike the old days before the new collective bargaining agreement in 2020 there was a lot of movement. And while there are still some players unsigned and trade rumors floating, most of the action is done. Which teams fared the best? We grade the 12 franchises on their free agency decisions and other moves made. The grades don t reflect how we think the teams will fare in 2021; rather, it s more about how they
Sofia Lucero Named Asst. Director of Communications
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Sofia Lucero, a graduate of the Anderson School of Management at UNM, has been hired as Assistant Director of Communications and will oversee publicity for Lobo Women’s Soccer, Baseball, Track and Field and Cross Country. She started in her new position on February 1.
Lucero is no stranger to UNM Athletics, working previously as a top intern in the office from 2017-19, working with women’s soccer, baseball and the Lobo basketball programs. The native of Pojoaque, New Mexico, Lucero comes back to the Lobos after working for a year with USA Basketball, where she worked on various promotional and social justice campaigns. She also handled content creation for various USA Basketball social channels as well as USABasketball.com.
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In its eighth season in the ACC, Notre Dame has failed to finish .500 or above in the month of February just once (2018-19) – including 6-2 last season – and the second month of the year as keyed some memorable rises in the league standings. See page 4 for more details.
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Notre Dame career field goal percentage for graduate forward Juwan Durham, which would rank him fifth on the Irish career charts since 1996-97 for a player with at least 200 FGM. See page 4 for more.
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Field goal percentage over the past seven games for Juwan Durham, who is in the midst of his most consistent stretch of play for the Irish in his fifth season. Over those past seven games Durham is averaging 13.0 points and 6.1 rebounds per game.
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USA Basketball has begun preparations to hold a pre-Olympic bubble in Las Vegas that will include a training camp as well as exhibition games against Spain and Australia, managing director Jerry Colangelo told ESPN s Brian Windhorst.
The goal is to limit the risk of exposure to COVID-19 for players from the three nations participating in the Olympics prior to departing for Tokyo.
USA Basketball is tentatively aiming to start training camp during the first week of July, with the NBA playoffs currently scheduled to take place from May 22 to July 22. On the surface it makes a lot of sense, Colangelo told ESPN. We have to be flexible.