WNBA betting analysis. Page 10.
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A naturalized debut is hard enough. Doing it without Vanessa De Jesus and Jack Animam means Means is not easing into this rotation, she is carrying it from the opening tip.
Nothing has cleared my number on a dark Monday, but Thursday stacks all five games into one night with every team on identical rest. Here is where I expect the board to be softest.
Alford ran the department through the 13-0 playoff snub and the ACC lawsuit that followed. Firing him in the middle of September says the next decision is already close to made.
Stewart went double-double and took tournament MVP as the Americans erased a 14-point hole to beat France 97-79. The argument waiting at the airport was about minutes, not medals.
France led by 14 early and had the building. Then the U.S. defense squeezed, Breanna Stewart went for 22, Jackie Young added 18, and a streak that began in 2010 got another ring.
Stewart went for 22 and Young added 18 in a 97-79 gold medal win, and the only thing I'm buying from it is rhythm, not fatigue. Nothing on my board cleared.
Iyana Martin led the closeout, a 23-point margin in a game that is usually a coin flip of tired legs, and the host nation's run ends one step short of the podium's best seat.
A season-ending left knee procedure closes Katie Lou Samuelson's year, on a Sunday that also produced a USA-France World Cup final and Sophie Cunningham pushing back on being branded.
Gabby Williams dropped 22 and five to shove France into the FIBA World Cup final, Kate Koval landed at Baylor, and none of it cleared a number I would act on. Here is the radar anyway.
Cohn boiled her defense down to three words on her show, and the receipts back her: LSU 102, Iowa 85 in 2023, then two rookies who dragged a whole sport into prime time.
Engelbert is gone, Project B has signed north of 20 WNBA players, and the guard from Indiana just named the thing every player has been circling: talk to us first.
The Kentucky coach who took Virginia Tech to its first Final Four is arguing the sport got more athletic without losing the thing that made people fall for it. He has standing to say it.
Chase Daniel wants Alabama's run game to show up, and Matt Barrie says Will Stein has lit a fire in Lexington. Kentucky hasn't beaten the Crimson Tide since Tim Couch was throwing it.
Lawson has been leaning on a roster that usually wins without being asked hard questions, and the word out of camp is that the challenge is exactly what they wanted.
Kara Lawson has been leaning on her Team USA group heading into the World Cup semis, and Sophie Cunningham is tuning out the draft-declaration noise in Indiana. Neither one has cleared a number yet.
The players keep saying they haven't played their best yet. With a national team assembled in weeks, that line is usually spin. Here it might be literal.
Two men declaring for the WNBA draft turned into the loudest noise around the Fever this week, and the player getting asked about it gave the only sane answer: she has games left to play.
The winning streak at this tournament is now 34 games, and the U.S. did it by 52 in a quarterfinal that stopped being a game somewhere in the second quarter.
An ACL tear halfway around the world takes Seattle's interior defense off the board for the rest of the season, and the first number that reacts is usually the one that overreacts.
She went down for Australia at the World Cup in Germany, and Seattle loses its defensive spine for the rest of the year. The frontcourt minutes get rewritten from here.
Four world title fights stacked on one card, dropped into ESPN's Women's Sports Sundays window on November 8. That distribution slot matters as much as the marquee.
The playoff field is locked and the losers get the earliest jump on roster work, in a 30th season where a new Finals logo, an expansion map and a World Cup are all pulling at the same calendar.
Sept. 27, Oct. 4, Oct. 17: the postseason runway is finally on paper, and in Berlin the quarterfinal draw handed Team USA a Hungary side that just squeaked past Nigeria by four.
Three losses, one of them by four points to Hungary, and a 111-56 finish against France. The coach who took D'Tigress to history in Paris chose honesty over cover.
Clark says the noise around her and Reese is mostly invention, and that the fire between them is the part she actually likes. Same U.S. roster, same competitive streak, different framing.
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