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The UConn Huskies women's basketball team obtained the longest winning streak in college basketball (both men's and women's), 111 straight wins, which started with a win against Creighton on December 23, 2014, and continued for 111 games until March 31, 2017, when they were beaten 66–64 on a last second shot in overtime by Mississippi State ...
Most notably, Lynette Woodard of Kansas, whose career total of 3,649 points made her the career scoring leader in women's major-college basketball [a] before Iowa's Caitlin Clark passed her on February 28, 2024, [7] was not recognized as the NCAA career leader because her entire college career (1977–81) predated NCAA sponsorship of women's ...
While at UCLA (1976–1979), she became the first four-time All-American women's basketball player. She was the winner of the Honda Sports Award as outstanding women's college basketball player of the year, as well as the Broderick Cup for outstanding woman athlete of the year in 1978.
In 2023, the NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Rules Committee proposed a rule change that allows players to now wear any number between 0 and 99, bringing the college game up to speed with ...
From 1895 until 1970, the term "women's basketball" (or, in New Zealand, "outdoor basketball") was also used to refer to netball, at the time a women's only sport broadly derived from basketball, which evolved in parallel with modern women's basketball. The first professional women's basketball team were the All American Red Heads. They were ...
This is a list of NCAA Division I women's basketball players who have accumulated both 2,500 points and 1,000 rebounds in their careers. While the NCAA's current three-division format has been in place since the 1973–74 season, the organization did not sponsor women's sports until the 1981–82 school year; before that time, women's college sports were governed by the Association of ...
Lynette Woodard (born August 12, 1959) is an American basketball player and former head women's basketball coach at Winthrop University. Woodward played college basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks . She became the first female member of the Harlem Globetrotters and, at age 38, began playing as one of the oldest members in the newly formed ...
On an early-November morning in downtown Indianapolis, Clark, the two-time college national player of the year for the University of Iowa, reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year from the Indiana Fever ...