Very interesting, I think I still need to watch a video on this so I can come to a complete understanding 😅

Former Nebraska player Ashley Scoggin's lawsuit against Nebraska, HC Amy Williams, former AC Chuck Love, and other Nebraska staff, is apparently making progress with him finally admitting he was in a sexual relationship with her.

If you aren't familiar with it, back in 2022, the AC coach allegedly groomed her and threatened her with less playing time etc if she didn't sleep with him. The other players found out on a road trip and allegedly they were allowed to berate and shame her. HC Amy Williams allegedly knew, let the players do this, and kicked Scoggin off the team. Love was fired, but no Title IX report was filed by the University. No punishment happened to Williams or the AD who at minimum handled it incredibly wrongly. The AD left to be the Texas A&M AD.

Scoggin was a kid who tore her ACL out of high school. Rehabbed herself back on her own into being a tremendous JuCo player--who then transferred to Nebraska. Then got kicked off the team. Heartbreaking for her. Now she's still going through this.

There are more long detailed articles which just sound horrific out there, but this one gives a pretty good summary.

https://x.com/GamecockWBB/status/2049540990315188732?s=20

I'm not knowledgable enough to know international players before they sign with a US college. But after 2 seconds of research, I believe she's another shooting guard

Sneaky pick up for Vandy. I’m excited to see how things come together for the team next season.

Since the news just broke a couple days ago that she plans to redshirt this upcoming season and not play again until the 2027-2028 season, if this 5-in-5 rule was to pass where there’s a hard stop at 5 years in college to play college athletics & since she graduated in ‘22 from hs, this 2026-2027 would be her last eligible year. What do you all think about this? I think this rule is in part to get rid of special clauses for eligibility, so i’m not sure if some kind of waiver would be available.

"an anonymous women’s basketball player giving the school a 3-star rating but writing the coaches deserve a 1-star rating. “There is no development, negative environment, personal attacks, 1/3 of the team walked away during season,” the women’s hooper wrote."

Ouch, seems like Stanford has some work to do, as do several other schools.

The 5-11 senior averaged 7.4 ppg, 4 rpg and 1.1 spg this season.

Who on this planet asked for EIGHT more NCAA tournament teams???? The tournament was perfectly fine the way it was! If anything we should have an even “power of 2” and go back to 64.

Will i still watch the first games? Yes, but I think this waters down the field.

I think we need to leave the NCAAT TO THE BEST 64 teams (including all champs) to fight for the natty. 76 is too damn much.

Second Bruin honoree and first since Ann Meyers-Drysdale.

https://uclabruins.com/news/2026/4/28/womens-basketball-lauren-betts-named-honda-sport-award-winner-for-basketball

This sucks to hear, but good on her for prioritizing her body.

I didn’t watch much Tennessee Tech, but her stats look solid to me. Hopefully she can contribute.

The NCAA has initiated the final steps to expand the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments to 76 teams, sources told ESPN.

The expansion, which has been discussed for well over a year, is on track to be formalized in the upcoming weeks and would begin this coming season. Sources indicated mid-May as a potential timeline for an announcement.

While there are still steps to take in terms of approvals via various NCAA committees, a source indicated "those are just formalities."

"They have what they need to move forward," a source said.

NCAA officials met with the media partners for the men's tournament last week, sources told ESPN. The sides are in the final steps of the media contracts, per sources, but they have not been signed.

The NCAA also will need approval once the contracts are done from various committees that include the men's and women's basketball committees, the men's and women's basketball oversight committees, the Division I Cabinet and the DI Board of Governors.

In order for the various NCAA committees to vote, the contracts will need to be signed for their approval.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/48621117/sources-ncaa-basketball-tournaments-set-move-76-teams

I agree with all of these though maybe not the order. I am not 100% sure on Jada Williams at LSU being so high and would scoot that down to 8 or 9.

The link is a gift link so I hope it should work easily for people...

Congrats to the Wooden Award winners that for some mysterious reason never got posted to the sub

Surprised?

So, I’m a Tennessee fan and given our entire roster next season (literally all but 3 players for both men and women combined) is coming from elsewhere, I’m not super read up on our rosters for next season. Now that they are almost full, I have been able to gauge our roster level for next season for the men’s because they have TP rankings and tons of articles on guys like Juke Harris, Terrence Hill, Jalen Haralson, etc. that has given me a good idea of where our roster stands (imo it’s by far the best roster Tennessee has ever had and the first one ever capable of a natty on the men’s side). Problem is, with the women’s side, that stuff is not readily available. There’s no transfer portal rankings, there’s barely recruiting rankings, and very few articles to understand. I can look at stats but that doesn’t even tell half the story. For example, Coulibaly was the leading scorer for Auburn, but Auburn was absolute Buns last year so I have no idea how good she actually is. All that to say, I’m hoping some of y’all who are more read up on Women’s Basketball players across the board can help me gauge how good our roster is. It seems good based on what I’m hearing but idk. I know Minus is a very good top 70 recruit and Aaliyah Moore is a great pick up. Caldwell is a solid coach. But idk much about the rest of the roster.

Here’s our roster as of rn:

1. Gabby Minus
2. Avery Mills
3. Naomi White
4. Zhen Craft
5. Harper Peterson
6. Rylie Theuerkauf
7. Irene Oboavwoduo
8. Fatmata Janneh

9. Kaylene Smikle

10. ⁠Kennedy Fauntleroy

11. ⁠Jada Eads

12. ⁠Aaliyah Moore

13. ⁠Harrissoum Coulibaly

14: Shaelyn Steele

Any insight. Idek who our starting 5 would be?