Jess Smith will serve as the franchise’s first team president
Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith has covered women’s basketball nationally for more than three decades. A 2024 inductee into the U.S. Basketball Writer’s Hall of Fame, Smith has worked for ESPN.com, The Athletic, the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as Pac-12.com and WNBA.com. She is the 2017 recipient of the Jake Wade Media Award from the Collegiate Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA) and was named the Mel Greenberg Media Award winner by the WBCA in 2019.
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Parity hits the top Pac-12 teams hard
Through the first four weekends, the drama has been palpable and the upsets plentiful
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Stanford celebrates ‘our coach’ VanDerveer on her record-breaking day
Sights and sounds from Maples Pavilion on a historic afternoon
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Oregon ‘realistic’ about its up-and-down season
Notes from around the Pac-12
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The singular figure that is Tara VanDerveer
There will be no gender-specific qualifier when the incomparable coach becomes the winningest in college basketball history
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Is Cal turning a winning corner?
Smith: ‘We’re exponentially better’
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Five things we learned from Pac-12 opening weekend
Los Angeles is embracing women’s college hoops, Oregon State is surging and more
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Cougars still looking to find their consistency
‘I don’t think we’re playing our best basketball yet’
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Arizona loses Maya Nnaji to medical school and other Pac-12 news
UCLA’s Emily Bessoir injured, Washington’s defense and more