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Here's how the U.S. women have performed since 1976, when women’s basketball debuted at the Montreal Olympics: 2020, Tokyo: Gold (90–75 win over Japan) 2016, Rio: Gold (101–72 win over Spain)
Footnotes. ^ The overall scoring leader in women's college basketball is Pearl Moore, who scored 4,061 points from 1975–1979, mostly at Francis Marion (now an NCAA Division II program) after briefly playing at a junior college.[3] The NAIA leader is Grace Beyer, with 3,961 points at UHSP from 2019–2024.[4][5][6]
The NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, sometimes referred to as Women's March Madness, [1] is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 women's college basketball teams from the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), to determine the national championship.
Kimberly Duane Mulkey (born May 17, 1962) [1] is an American college basketball coach and former player. Since 2021, she has been the head coach for Louisiana State University 's women's basketball team. A Pan-American gold medalist in 1983 and Olympic gold medalist in 1984, she is the first coach in NCAA basketball history to win national ...
Women's basketball. Initial jump at the match for the 3rd place in the FIBA Under-18 Women's Americas Championship Buenos Aires 2022 between Argentina and Brazil. Women's basketball is the team sport of basketball played by women. It was first played in 1892, one year after men's basketball, at Smith College in Massachusetts.
Kellie Harper. Kellie Jolly Harper (born May 3, 1977) [1] is an American basketball coach who most recently served as the head women's basketball coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols. She was fired at the end of the 2023–24 season. Prior to coaching at Tennessee, she served as head coach of Missouri State, NC State, and Western Carolina.
3x Big Ten tournament (2000, 2003, 2004) 2x Big Ten regular season (2001, 2002) NCAA Regional—Final Four (2001) Awards. Kay Yow Heart of a Coach Award (2014) Kristy Lynn Curry (née Sims; born October 30, 1966) [1] is the head coach of the University of Alabama 's women's basketball team, the Crimson Tide. She took the job in 2013.
The USA Basketball Women's National Team, [2] commonly known as Team USA, is governed by USA Basketball and competes in FIBA Americas. The team is by far the most successful in international women's basketball, having won 10 out of the 12 Olympic tournaments it has entered. It has also won 9 of the last 12 World Cups (including the last 4), and ...