PRINCETON — Courtney Banghart has won five Ivy League championships and her teams have been runner up three times as head coach of the Princeton University women’s basketball team. In her tenth season, she has won more than 200 games.
Category: NCAA Women’s Basketball
Sleeping with the Enemy: The Johnnies
So you’re doing better than we are in Big East play? How did that happen? Does that speak to some substantive improvements on your end or are we just that terrible? I feel like I should offer you all a proverbial couch and a bit of hope, a foot massage and a shot of rum. Meanwhile, St. John’s actually took their two wins over DePaul seriously, knocked off Butler , and then earned wins against the mid-pack hopefuls in the Big East – teams that have obvious flaws but obvious talent.
VanDerveer joins Summitt with 1,000 wins
Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer yells out instructions during the first half of the team’s NCAA college basketball game against Southern California on Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, in Stanford, Calif. /Copyright 2017 The Associated Press.
A look at women’s basketball’s weekend
The Illinois State women’s basketball team defeated the Evansville Purple Aces 71-58 Friday. The Redbirds did so in comeback fashion, while snapping a six game losing streak.
Collins carries Wake Forest past Boston College 85-80
Collins scored 18 of his 26 points in the second half – 13 coming in a 14-0 run that propelled Wake Forest to an 85-80 victory over Boston College. “Yeah, 100 percent locked in because he’s been there,” Collins said.
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski takes leave to have back surgery
… procedures into a busy summer in which he also led the U.S. Olympic team to the gold medal in Rio de Janeiro. “His health is paramount, and he will get the best possible care in the world by the Duke medical team. With the proper recovery time, we …
Basketball: South senior battling cancer gets surprise visit from Lady Vol
Caroline Diem holds a University of Tennessee women’s basketball sweatshirt gifted to her by Diamond DeShields, a standout Lady Volunteers player who surprised the former South Forsyth girls basketball player Thursday before the Lady War Eagles’ game. Diem would have been a likely senior starter for South but is instead battling Hodgkin’s lymphona since she was diagnosed with the cancer just before the start of the season.
Basketball: South senior battling cancer gets surprise visit from Lady Vol
Caroline Diem holds a University of Tennessee women’s basketball sweatshirt gifted to her by Diamond DeShields, a standout Lady Volunteers player who surprised the former South Forsyth girls basketball player Thursday before the Lady War Eagles’ game. Diem would have been a likely senior starter for South but is instead battling Hodgkin’s lymphona since she was diagnosed with the cancer just before the start of the season.
Idaho outscores Colorado State 61-50 in Potato Bowl
Matt Linehan threw for 381 yards and four touchdowns and ran for a another score to help Idaho beat Colorado State 61-50 on Thursday night in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in the third-highest scoring game in bowl history. Idaho matched its highest victory total since moving to FBS in 1996, but the victory will do nothing to quell the debate over the school’s decision to move back down to FCS play.