The Guru’s NCAAW Report: Rutgers Fends Visiting La Salle Challenge While Drexel and Penn Set for Season’s First Big Five Showdown

 By Mel Greenberg @womhoopsgurux

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — We’re covering the last two nights beginning with what would be a wash here Wednesday in that both Rutgers, under first-year coach Gary Redus II, the former recruiting head for Kim Mulkey at LSU, and visiting LaSalle are two of the Guru’s 13 local Division I programs.

So, while coaches don’t like moral victories as opposed to the real ones, still both teams got positives out of the home team’s 75-62 triumph over the Explorers, who dropped their season opener at Jersey Mikes Arena, while Rutgers is now 2-0, making Redus the only of four coaches in the program’s history to have a perfect record.

The previous three were a pair of Hall of Famers in Theresa Grentz and C. Vivian Stringer, followed by Coquese Washington.

Redus, having been part of the SEC, and preceded here to the Banks out of Tigers country by president William F. Tate IV and athletic director Keli Zinn, had the attraction and name recognition to cash in on the Tennessee roster emigration last spring and bring home the twin sister 5-6 guard combo of Mya and Mia Pauldo, who hail from nearby Paterson.

Mia has been explosive off the outset registering her second straight 20+ game, this one for a game-high 22 with six assists, three rebounds and a pair of steals.

Supplementing the attack were Jaylah Lampley with 11 points while Zennia Thomas scored 10, and Zachara Perkins and Tara Daye each grabbed 11 boards.

So, what did La Salle get out of it?

Enough to have the headline in the Rutgers website refer to the win as “hold off” La Salle, a type of game in the Stringer years that despite a win might take a bit for the postgame appearance in the press room due to immediate extended rehash between coach and players.

“I’m enjoying the job,” he told reporters after the opener.

And La Salle did not quit, several times when it looked like Rutgers was about to hit the pedal and make the outcome appear similar to what the Democrats did two nights ago in the mid-terms. The Explorers rallied to within single digits as late as in the final period.

“Gary’s doing a good job and they’re going to be better,” La Salle coach Mountain MacGillivray said.

In fact, the new era started last summer, Rutgers winning a tournament, the FISU America Games in Argentina.

“We won the turnover battle against a team that’s going to turn over a bunch of opponents,” he said.

“But we needed to put the ball in the hole,” MacGillivray said of the 20-59 33.9 percent from the floor, the exception Joan Quinn, the only player for La Salle in double figures with her 20 points and 10-for-10 from the line.

“And you can’t go 17-for-32 at the line in a game we lost by 13 points,” he noted what might be labelled as a missed opportunity to have reversed the outcome.

“They just had to play with more energy and more effort,” Redus said of his players coming more to life in the second half. “It shouldn’t take a half to do it because the very best teams, they’re going to come out in the very beginning of the game and punch you in the mouth.”

And in the powerful Big Ten, a whole lot of punching was going on once Rutgers entered conference play in recent seasons after looking promising early on the season schedule.

Next up for Rutgers is Sunday when Indiana State visits while La Salle moves to its home opener Saturday at the John E. Glaser Arena.

Hens Pecked by Hokies

The only other local game on Wednesday’s slate involved Delaware on the road suffering a lopsided 101-53 loss at Virginia Tech, now 2-0.

Fifth-year transfer Frances Ulysse had a team high 18 points for the Blue Hens, while Saniyah Littlejohn debuted with 10 points and Kendall Scott scored 10.

Delaware went the Tennessee route in multiple newcomers, 11 players made their first Hens appearances.

The Blue Hens, in their second year in Conference USA, return in their next game Monday to their days in the Coastal Athletic Association, playing formal rival and nearby Towson in suburban Baltimore, Md.

Penn Blasts Swarthmore

In the only local game Tuesday the Quakers in their season opener in The Palestra tuned up for bigger fish at home Friday by routing Division III Swarthmore 110-27 in a game that will not count in resume building for at-large bids to the NCAA tournament.

The Quakers also did their part in beginning of the 100th anniversary of their Palestra, which on January 11 will include a star-studded night when the Philadelphia Sportswriters Association moves their annual awards dinner from nearby Cherry Hill, N.J., to the venue once labelled The Cathedral of Basketball by yours truly’s Temple classmate Dick “Hoops,” Weiss, the national men’s basketball journalist who will receive the Stan Hochman Award that evening.

Still, it was a great shakedown for Penn to host their nearby neighbors up 33rd Street Drexel, who had an outstanding opener Monday and make the two-block trip down the street for the overall Big 5 opener, tipping off at 1 p.m.

While Tina Njike leading with 14 points, Esse Ogbevire scored 12, Christina Pham had 11, and Ava Jones scored 10, the excitement in the house was over the play of freshman Rachel Thatcher.

Mataya Gayle beamed talking about her backcourt mate and also noted that former Ivy freshman of the year begins the senior countdown to her final game in The Palestra.

She’d like that to be winning the Ivy Madness four-team championship leading to the NCAA tournament, but Penn goes into the season picked fourth behind the usual trio of highly-regarded opponents in defending champion Princeton, under new coach Lauren Goselin, Columbia, and Harvard.

Taking advantage of their nearby proximity, the Dragons and Quakers often go against each other in each other’s arenas in the summer.

“Oh, yeah we’ve met, they’re a good group,” Gayle said, “but we’re out to win Friday.”

Motivation is the lopsided night Drexel delivered up the street last season in the Daskalakis Athletic Center.

Besides this being the lone Big 5 home game in Penn’s pod that includes the other game at Saint Joseph’s, the Big 5 Classic tripleheader at Villanova the last two seasons will be at The Palestra Sunday, Dec. 6.

The local card the rest of the week has Lafayette hosting Wagner Thursday night in the Leopards’ home opener at 8:30 p.m. in the Kirby Sports Arena in Easton, Pa., the Penn game while Lehigh at 6 p.m. is at Monmouth Friday; La Salle’s home opener is hosting Loyola, Md., at noon, is part of a Saturday slate that has Saint Joseph’s hosting Kutztown in the Hawks’ season and home opener at Hagan Arena at 1 p.m., Temple’s home opener in the Liacouras Center against Patriot favorite Navy at 2 p.m.; and Penn State at Cincinnati at 2 p.m.

Sunday is the Rutgers game at 2 and Penn traveling to MEAC contender Norfolk State in Virginia at 2 p.m.

The National Slate

Ranked teams continued to be perfect the last two nights on mostly soft schedules, No. 4 Duke winning its season opener at home Tuesday against Horizon favorite Green Bay, while TCU at home opened its season with a 99-43 romp hosting Oral Roberts, and No. 24 West Virginia at home in Morgantown gaining a narrow escape over Rhode Island.

On Wednesday in five blowouts all at home, No. 6 Texas topped FDU 85-65, No. 8 Vanderbilt rolled100-42 over Queens at home in Nashville, Tenn., No. 7 Louisville in its Yum! Center beat Stetson 87-35, and No. 25 NC State in Raleigh routed Campbell 80-45.

In Duke’s Tuesday win, Arianna Roberson had 15 points and four blocked shots for the Blue Devils, matched by teammate Riley Nelson with 15.

Big news in that win was the absence of Toby Fournier, a preseason All-ACC of whom coach Kara Lawson said had a lower leg injury with no timetable yet for a return.

In West Virginia’s narrow win over Rhode Island, Gia Cooke had a personal best 28 points for the Mountaineers.

West Virginia is fourth in the Big 12 preseason poll.

Laura Somfai had 17 points and 10 boards in TCU’s rout.

On Wednesday, All-American Madison Booker had 24 points on Texas in the Longhorns win; Vanderbilt’s win featured a program record 73 points in the first half, Central New Jersey’s Mikayla Blakes, a preseason All-American, getting 22 of her 24 points in the effort; Louisville forced Stetson into 30 turnovers while imari Berry scored 16 points for the Cardinals; Cearah Pearchment had 22 points and Berry Wallace had 21 and both each grabbed 11 boards for the winning Illini; and Khamil Pierre had 21 points and 11 boards for N.C. State while Zoe Brooks scored 16 for N.C. State in the Wolfpack win.

Upset City

On Wednesday, Cal Baptist, which moved from the WAC, now rebranded as the UAC, stung host Oregon State, 79-77, Lauren Olsen scoring 22 for the winners against the Beavers, now back in the new rebuilt Pac-12 after spending two seasons in the West Coast Conference with Washington State after the former PAC-12 version imploded with the rest of the league members heading either to the Big Ten, Big 12, or Atlantic Coast Conferences.

Noted

Stanford got to 1-1 on a 87-54 home win in Maples Pavilion over West Coast contender Saint Mary’s, the Cardinal getting 22 points from Hailee Swain, while Grand Canyon of the Mountain West, picked second behind UNLV, won at home 77-55 over SWAC past power Jackson State.

Looking Ahead Nationally

Another conference challenge series occurs Thursday night with eight games involving members of the America East and Metro, renamed from the MAAC, highlighted by Maureen Magarity, daughter of retired Army coach Bill Magarity, a native Philadelphian, returning to the coaching ranks at Vermont in the AEC after leaving Holy Cross several years ago.

The opposition Quinnipiac will be playing its first game following last season’s longtime coach Tricia Fabbri announcing her retirement in March.

The highlight game of the night comes between two ranked teams as No. 2 Uconn visits fifth ranked Michigan in Ann Arbor, the Wolverines nearly rallying for an upset in the early season a year ago over the host Huskies at the Mohegan Sun, the past home of the former WNBA Connecticut Sun, which has relocated to Houston, for next season, the new name but former name Comets won the first four league titles from 1997-2000 led by the trio of Sheryl Swoopes, Cynthia Cooper, and Tina Thompson, all since inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., following their retirements.

“Neither of us are the same teams as a year ago,” said UConn Hall of Fame coach Geno Auriemma, who lost Azzi Fudd to graduation and No. 1 pick in the WNBA by Houston, but still keeps reigning national player of the year Sarah Strong, whose mom was Harvard All-American Allison Feaster.

 

 

 

 

 

The Guru’s NCAAW Report: Drexel Douses Marist; Ranked Powers Form an Election Eve Wave; Other Items

 By Mel Greenberg @ womhoopsgurux

PHILADELPHIA – Monday may have been night one of the 2026-27 edition of NCAA women’s basketball whose March Madness presentation of the national tournament will be tearing through here nearby in South Philly with two sets of the Sweet 16 and and Elite Eight on the way to the Final Four in Columbus, Ohio — that’s eight teams here in the neighborhood – but stories and results came blazing at the outset in midseason form.

Therefore, buckle up as we fly back over the landscape of opening action and when you see a site name in the upper lefthand corner of a post in bold it means a game leading off was personally attended by yours truly or by other contributors to the cause.

Eight teams formed the part of the local Monday segment, which many times will be the first part of the merged report, but many times also will be handled in separate reports.

Since this is being posted on election day nationwide, might as well take that style of reporting for your entertainment.

Overall, a great night individually here in the Daskalakis Athletic Center for Drexel quickly tossing aside any opening night jitters — even veteran squads get them — to defeat Marist of the Metro Conference rebranded from its longtime MAAC identity 62-47 as the Dragons handled the Red Foxes offensively and defensively off a rebuilt roster whose subtractions were more by way of graduation than in the portal.

Data points were close between the two teams – advantage home folks – but the key defensive stats were a 37-25 advantage on the boards, 10-1 on the offensive glass, and 10-4 on steals, part of a stand that led to 13 turnovers by the visitors to just six miscues by Drexel.

The Dragons won every quarter and other than Marist winning bench points 17-10, it was a wipeout otherwise, 17-10 mined on turnovers, 32-24 in the paint, 5-0 on second chance scoring and 6-2 on fast breaks.

Individually, knocking on doors and taking the lions share of votes, Laine McGurk led the way with 15 points and seven boards, while Spaniard Julia Garcia Roig, the current in a long history of Drexel foreign legion performers here in West Philadelphia, had 14 points and seven assists.

It’s ok to cheer Go Molly Go from the stands but be aware there were two in the starting lineup, Molly Lavin with nine points and sevent boards while Molly Rullo had eight points and a pair of assists.

Megan Rullo off the bench saw just under 22 minutes of action and grabbed five boards.

Drexel led by as many as 19 points early in the fourth quarter.

Marist got 12 points from Ryan Oldaker, the lone visitor scoring in double figures.

By the way, this was Roig’s first start on Drexel after traveling the transfer route from Xavier to enroll before last season.

Her 14 points were a personal best.

Veteran coach Amy Mallon thinks of former Dragon great Hannah Nihill in describing Roig’s style – “the ability to be crafty, make a play on the court, score, do what it takes for you to win a game.”

Her previous school was Xavier, a rival of Villanova in the Big East.

Drexel was picked third in the Coastal Athletic Association coaches’ poll.

Of Roig, her speedy teammate, McGurk said afterwards, “She just shoots in down the floor and gets it out, she’s smart, she knows when to take it, when to pull back. She’s a spicy one, and she’s very competitive.”

Thrilled with the overall performance, Mallon said, “… to come out tonight and play the way we did, and take care of things on that court, was really important for this team moving forward.

“We know with Molly Lavin, Aisha Dabo and Bria Watkins, we have three bigs who really are versatile. One of our focuses has been rebounding, that’s always big for our team, but to see that opening night that’s going to be really important.”

Meanwhile, off the price of gas, don’t criticize Drexel for ignoring the rise by not walking to the Dragons’ next road game Friday two blocks away to The Palestra, the arena turning 100 this year, to play its first Big Five pod game against Penn, in a 1 p.m. matinee game, which follows the Quakers opening their season slate late Tuesday afternoon at home at 5 p.m. hosting Swarthmore in the only local action of the day on a much lighter national schedule.

“There’s rain in the forecast so we’re likely driving,” Mallon quipped.

Jersey Juice but Overall, a Downer Night Locally

On the heels of the national launch of the season in Rome Sunday in which Villanova, a heavy underdog to No. 13 Notre Dame, didn’t run into any Irish famine in the offense with the Midwest crowd featuring Merchantville’s Hannah Hidalgo pouring down 32 points and Princeton transfer Madison St. Rose scored 17in a 99-75 victory, Jasmine Bascoe of Toronto led the ‘Cats with 25, it was an opposition tsunami for the locals in eight games, going 3-5.

In some cases, the other side maintained strong favorites role, but not so much across the board.

Among the 13 D1 schools existing the Guru local group, the bright spots came out of New Jersey, both under new coaches.

With Carla Berube having gone to Northwestern in the wake of the retirement of Father Judge grad Joe McKeown, the defending Ivy champion Princeton picked up a quick resume builder – the type of matchups among the higher teams in mid-major conferences, winning at home 63-52 in Jadwin Gym over Missouri Valley contender Belmont as former associate head coach Lauren Goselin took her new seat leading the Tigers.

Princeton stood Tall on a historic night as in Fadima Tall double doubled her way to a personal best 29 points with 22 boards, the Tigers’ first such feat since 1985, a time when professor Albert Einstein’s name recognition easily overshadowed the future powerful program.

Time out: Former Jadwin star Kaitlin Chen, who played on the 2025 UConn national champs her graduation season, Saturday night became the second past Ivy star to be on a WNBA champion, playing with the two-year old franchise Golden State Valkyries, the other Harvard’s Allison Feaster whose daughter Sarah Strong of UConn is the reigning national women’s collegiate player of the year.

Once upon a time in year one of the WNBA in 1997 the champion, Houston, in a Final Four format was crowned on Aug. 30. College games got under way around Nov. 10, a 2.5 months span.

The first-ever AP women’s poll, preseason, long before the coming of the pro leagues, in 1976 was published Thanksgiving weekend, games getting under way the following week.

Three decades and change later, the span was reduced this past weekend to 13 hours and a bonus hour occuring off the return to standard time.

Meanwhile Monday night, just up the road at Rutgers, the Scarlet Knights at home in Jersey Mike’s Arena in New Brunswick, N.J., thumped visiting Long Island University 83-52, the start of mentor Gary Redus II’s head coaching career after being the top recruiter for Kim Mulkey at LSU.

“I’m getting used to it but I’m really enjoying it,” he said.

Mila Pauldo, who with her twin sister was part of the exodus from Tennessee, in their case returning to their home area, had a game-high 21 points, while grabbing seven boards, dishing five assists and grabbing six steals.

Zachara Perkins added 11 points and Imani Lesler was 4-of-5 from the field scoring 10 points.

Rutgers hosts La Salle in the Explorers’ season opener Wednesday.

The Scarlet Knights did a lot of winning in November under Coquese Washington when the schedule was lighter.

As will be said in many of the locals, the jury remains out until the mighty forces of the Big Ten come blowing through.

When it comes to exception passes, give one to Lehigh, having the dubious distinction of a season opening road trip to defending champion UCLA in Pauley Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles.

The Mountain Hawks held their own until the Bruins lowered the boom in a 23-9 third quarter, the home led by Sienna Betts, younger sister of Lauren Betts, who collected 15 points, while newbies Donovyn Hunter adding 15 and KK Bransford scoring 14, a combination of 29 points.

With the bulk of last year’s vets drafted into the WNBA UCLA opened the preseason voting in the AP Poll at No. 11.

The first of the season begins Sunday, released noon Monday and same time each week until the end of the regular season.

Leia Edwards scored 14 for Lehigh and Gracyn Lovette had 1o points.

The Mountain Hawks were tied 17-17 after a quarter and down 32-27 at the half before the deluge hit. Still, Lehigh was outscored by just a point the rest of the way.

Call Temple’s 91-71 loss at George Mason in suburban Washington at EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Va., a missed opportunity.

On the opponent side, no shame losing to a Patriot team one of the better ones of the Atlantic 10 behind Big 5 rival Saint Joseph’s, a unanimous choice at No. 1, no shame.

But if wanting to claim resume points for what will be an expanded 76-team NCAA field, up eight, in a common fight GMU up one for pursuit of a safety valve at-large bid and the Owls minus one.

GMU’s Mary Amoateng scored 21 as did Kaylah Turner for Temple, whose home opener in the Liacouras Center is Saturday at 2 p.m. hosting Navy, the preseason choice in the Patriot League.

It was a dubious setback for new coach and Penn State alum Tanisha Wright, the previous coach of WNBA runnerup Atlanta, at home 62-61 in former home arena Rec Hall to Cleveland State of the Horizon League.

Granted the Lady Lions lost some key talent in the transfer portal but if you’re a Big Ten school close is not a moral victory.

Perhaps things will get better quickly though if the current staff were players with a similar setback Rec Hall, a place that became the more common home for advantage last season would be a place under coach they might still be running in the track this morning.

Ava Black, a sophomore, got her first double double with 17 points and 10 boards in the defeat.

Devyn Quigley scored 12, and Skylar Durley scored 10.

The home did have the edge on the boards 45-41.

As for the remaining locals, Rider on the road got edged not far from Alumni Gym losing 50-45 to NJIT of the America East in Newark, Giana Hoddinott scoring 16 points for the visiting Broncos and Gabby Sweeney grabbing 11 rebounds in defeat, while Lafayette, under new coach Ben O’Brien from Scranton’s national D3 runnersup, got plundered 95-37 at St. John’s.

The visiting Leopards, who open at home Thursday hosting Wagner, would have been big underdogs to the Red Storm, while Rider would have been a 50-50 situation entering the contest.

On the national scene, many places to start, but why not at the top on a night ranked teams were there on giant wave, though where two met each other not a good one for Courtney Banghart over in Paris on doubleheader after No. 1 South Carolina rode a big lead and held on for a 101-93 win over No. 20 Maryland, and then Banghart’s No. 12 North Carolina team, which visits Penn at 4 p.m. next Saturday in a return to The Palestra for the former Princeton coach, was upset 91-79 by No. 21 Oklahoma.

The winning Sooners rode Sahara Williams’ third quarter surge with 13 of her 22 points in a period the Tar Heels shot 30 percent.

Oklahoma frosh LeeLee Bell rang up 25 points with six boards.

Freshman Kate Hapring provided a glimps of better days for UNC, scoring 21 points as the losing ACC squad had five players in double figures.

As for Dawn Staley’s South Carolina contingent, which plays UNC in Charlotte Sunday, Joyce Edwards led five winning Gamecock players in double figures with 23 points while the Terrapins trailing by as many as 31 points caused by 21 first half turnovers 27 fastbreak points moved within single digits at 89-80 with 4:30 left in regulation.

Staley’s crew turned the surge aside with a 7-0 run.

Addi Mack had 31 of her 35 points in the second half for Maryland and from deep was 6-for-10.

In the two spots in the preseason poll, No. 2 UConn as would be expected routed Cornell 100-35 in Hartford as reigning national player of the year Sarah Strong had 19 points with four boards, five dishes, and eight steals, while freshman Jovana Popovic collected 19 points.

Consider the visiting Big Red to be a warmup for a slew of Elite Eight style contingents ahead.

KK Arnold added 11 points for the Huskies, Marine Dursus also scored 11 while Jana El Alfy had nine points and five boards.

Hall of Fame coach Geno Auriemma, the Norristown longtime resident who is the winningest coach men or women in collegiate history, is 9-0 against Ivy opposition, including his former player Carla Berube when at Princeton.

It was all smiles for No. 3 Southern Cal squad in casino land in a Hall of Fame series game, with JujuWatkins, returned from a year rehabbing from the 2025 NCAA tournament injury her sophomore national player of the year, scoring 21 points, while freshman Saniyah Hall scored 22 in a 100-68 win over Mountain West powerhouse UNLV.

Watkins comes to Maryland, Jan. 8 and Rutgers Jan. 11.

Jazzy Jefferson, last year’s freshman sensation with the Trojans, had 23 points on 10-for-11 from the field.

Central New Jersey’s Mikayla Blake, expected in the national player hunt with Strong, Watkins, and Hidalgo out of No. 8 Vanderbilt, scored 27 points for the Commodores in their winning season and home opener in Nashville, a 112-53 win over Lipscomb.

Elsewhere, mostly all tuneup games from ranked teams, in the Big Ten group it was No. 16 Washington home in Seattle winning 79-63; No. 17 Minnesota at home in Minneapolis cruising 82-62 on Ivy hopeful Harvard, while No. 18 Ohio State in Columbus, the return site for the NCAA Women’s Final Four, won 81-34 over UIC, as Jaloni Cambridge scored 22 with nine boards, and Elsa Lemmila had 15 points and 11 boards.

Towson on the road hung at No. 10 Iowa for a half and then the Hawkeyes took off for a 73-45 victory as as Dani Carnegie scored 21 points.

Freshman sensation McKenna Woliczko had 10 points and eight boards.

The remaning ACC ranked duo of No. 7 Louisville, won 119-47 over visiting Bellarmine, while No. 25 NC State cruised at home in Raleigh to an 80-50 win over visiting Wofford.

Other ranked romps out of the SEC saw No. 19 Ole Miss win 80-38 over visiting Alcorn; No. 14 Kentucky 85-42 over visiting Morehead State, and No. 9 LSU 129-35 over visiting SE Louisiana.

The totally rebuilt Tennessee roster from the unranked Volunteers in Kim Caldwell’s third year, claimed a 109-62 win home in Knoxville over Duquesne of the Atlantic 10 but this will be another jury remains out situation until the brutes of the SEC appear on the other bench.

No. 22 Oklahoma State at home easily won 81-39 in the only game with a Big 12 ranked team prevailing 81-39 over Southern U, the SWAC favorite, as Audi Crooks, the prized in-conference transfer from Iowa State had 22 points.

Put a red alert at Stanford, which owned the Bay Area before Tara VanDerveer retired and the WNBA Golden Valkyries became the new flavor, now as a WNBA champion, while the Cardinal now in the ACC, fell 84-69 at former PAC-12 rival Arizona, now in the Big 12, the visiting squad already two years removed from its most recent NCAA appearance.

The annual opening day and first of a two-part Sun Belt/MAC challenge took place, the Sun Belt teams gaining a slim 7-5 win and a series total of 43-33, Monday’s road success a conference best.

But Sun Belt favorite James Madison, heading for the American next season, fell to MAC contender Miami of Ohio, 82-59.

Columbia, without Megan Griffith serving a few game suspensions under an independent finding that did not claim NCAA violations, won 71-65 over A-10 preseason runnerup Davidson in New York City.

FDU, expected to own the Northeast Conference again, joined up for the get paid well while getting rocked tour, started with an 87-66 loss at Baylor. A

The Pac-12 was back in action after a two-year recovery from losing all but Washington State and Oregon State went 5-1 with preseason favorite and prized pounced from the WCC in Gonzaga, at home claiming a narrow 62-56 win over Summit favorite North Dakota State.

The lone reversal in a game of former PAC-12 rivals, Cal at home claimed an 80-58 win over Washington State.

The losing Cougars are in Saint Joseph’s tournament in December, a field including Holy Cross which has newly minted Big Five Hall of Famer Hawks coach Cindy Griffin’s younger daughter on the roster.

Washington State is coached by former Texas All-American Kammie Ethridge.

This week into Saturday will be at Penn tonight, at Rutgers hosting La Salle tomorrow, Philly Sports Hall of Fame Thursday, back at penn for drexel Friday afternoon, at Temple for Navy Saturday, owls moved start time which blocked also being at Saint Joseph’s.

The WNBA is coming in 2030 but you can start now by showing on the college scene with lots of great games, the Big 5 triple header, the Ivy tourney, the return of Unrivaled, the NCAA regional, the Philly Sportswriters dinner is in the Palestra Jan 11, a fun night to consider.

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