Category: 2025 NCAA Women’s Basketball Final Four

When you go to a sporting event, you tend to see people in team gear. You’ll see fans decked out – from painted faces to customized shoes – rooting on their teams and players. Occasionally, you might see the casual fan wearing their everyday street clothes, but for the most part, it’s all about the …

By Marlee Ressa | @marleeressa Sports Capital Journalism Program TAMPA – “Anytime your season ends in a loss, it should light a fire,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said after her team’s 82-59 loss to UConn in the national title game. This was the third time in four years that the Gamecocks have been in …

By Jeffery Green | @Jeffery_Agreen Sports Capital Journalism Program TAMPA – For the first time since 2016, the UConn Huskies are national champions, beating South Carolina 82-59. UConn dominated the entire NCAA tournament this year, winning on average by 32 points, including 23 in the championship game. This is also the first time in NCAA …

By Jeffery Green | @Jeffery_Agreen Sports Capital Journalism Program TAMPA – “I saw [Sarah Strong] do things that I hadn’t seen any kid [in high school] do in a long, long, long time,” UConn Coach Geno Auriemma said about true freshman Sarah Strong. No one for the Huskies is surprised at what Strong has been …

By Marlee Ressa | @marleeressa Sports Capital Journalism Program TAMPA – South Carolina continued its dominance over Texas, defeating the Longhorns 74-57 in a semifinal of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament and earning the chance to play for a second title in as many seasons and a third in four years. When the Gamecocks (35-3) …

By Jeffery Green | @Jeffery_Agreen Sports Capital Journalism Program TAMPA – For just the second time since their 2016 national championship, the UConn Huskies are heading to the NCAA title game after dominating UCLA throughout an 85-51 victory. The sold-out, thunderous crowd at Amelie Arena was eager to see the overall No. 1-seed Bruins take …

By Marlee Ressa | @marleeressa Sports Capital Journalism Program TAMPA – As you walk into the Hilton Tampa Downtown Hotel for the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Awards Brunch Friday morning, you can hear the music of voices coming together – young, old, and everything in between. A symphony that can only be formed by a …

By Jeffery Green | @Jeffery_Agreen Sports Capital Journalism Program TAMPA – When the Palisades Fire fires destroyed 40% of the Palisades Charter High School campus in early January and left more than 500 students without homes, Adam Levine, coach of the girls basketball team, immediately got to work trying to plan for the rest of …

By Marlee Ressa | @marleeressa Sports Capital Journalism Program TAMPA – It took four seasons at the University of Texas for women’s basketball head coach Vic Schaefer to make it to the Final Four. This is his fourth time in the Final Four, two as head coach at Mississippi State and one as an assistant …

By Jeffery Green | @Jeffery_AGreen Sports Capital Journalism Program TAMPA – It was a year of firsts for UCLA and its women’s basketball team: first year in the Big Ten, first Big Ten Championship Title and now the program’s first time in the Final Four. Yet with all these “firsts,” someone listening to UCLA players …