LSU WBB coach Kim Mulkey calls report claiming she would retire at season's end "a flat-out lie.... I'm not retiring. I plan to hire two coaches quickly. I plan to get in the portal and get two or three more players and take a little time off...." asaptext.com/orgs/marchma...

LSU recruiting page/scholarship chart on WBB Blog wbbblog.com/lsu-womens-b...

UCLA WBB coach Cori Close: "There's been some talk about who the Big Ten is, and the math just doesn't math. The bottom line is our net wins in the non-conference, second in the country, only right below the SEC." www.asapsports.com/show_intervi...

Mariyah Noel (5-11 JR wing, Kansas City, KS) has announced she's entering her name into the portal, out of Xavier WBB —2025-26: 30 GP (28 starts), 33.5 MPG, 14.9 PPG, 6.3 RPG, 2.4 APG, 1.0 SPG, second-team All–Big East —started college career at Ole Miss

Minnesota recruiting page/scholarship chart on WBB Blog wbbblog.com/minnesota-wo...

BreAunna Ward (5-10 FR wing, St. Louis, MO) has announced she's entering her name into the portal, out of Evansville WBB —2025-26: 35 GP (23 starts), 21.9 MPG, 6.7 PPG, 3.5 RPG, 1.8 APG wbbblog.com/womens-baske...

2026 WBB prospect Sage Miskel, 5-7 PG, Whitefish Bay HS (WI), has announced her commitment to Butler wbbblog.com/2026-womens-...

2026 WBB prospect Jacey Boesel, 5-8 SG, Deer Park HS (WA), has announced her commitment to Idaho

North Carolina recruiting page/scholarship chart on WBB Blog wbbblog.com/north-caroli...

16 jobs filled, 23 open on the WBB Blog coaching changes tracker —Alabama is the only current P4 opening, with 6 filled: Boston College, Florida, Northwestern, Penn State, Pitt, Rutgers —no changes in the Big 12 (there were 4 last year) wbbblog.com/womens-baske...

Kate Popovec-Goss has been named the new Boston College WBB head coach; she's been the head coach at Bradley the last four seasons, associate head coach at Northwestern before that bceagles.com/news/2026/3/...

Syracuse WBB announces that Uche Izoje, the ACC Rookie of the Year, "after evaluating her options," will return to the program for the 2026-27 season cuse.com/news/2026/3/...

Evansville WBB head coach Robyn Scherr has resigned after five seasons at the helm "to pursue career opportunities outside of collegiate coaching" gopurpleaces.com/news/2026/3/...

Louisville WBB coach Jeff Walz asked about Cori Close's "tired" comments: "we choose to do what we do. No, I mean, if you don't like it, find a new job. I hope that wasn't too harsh. God darn, aren't you all tired too? We all work our ass off." www.asapsports.com/show_intervi...

Meredith Tippner (5-10 FR shooting guard, Noblesville, IN) has announced she's entering her name into the portal, out of Miami (FL) WBB; among her other offers before she committed to Miami were Evansville, Marquette, Oklahoma State, Purdue, and St. John's

Jordan Ode (6-0 FR guard, Maple Grove, MN) has announced she's entering her name into the portal, out of Michigan State WBB

Kennise Johnson (5-4 RS SO point guard, Joliet, IL) has announced she's entering her name into the portal, out of Iowa WBB

Hayven Smith (6-6 SO center, Frankfort, IL) has announced that she's entering her name into the portal, out of Illinois WBB

Raegan McCowan (6-0 JR wing, Lebanon, MO) has announced she's entering her name into the portal, out of Western Illinois WBB; she's averaged 20.4 PPG and 7.7 RPG over three seasons (74 games)

Brooke Winchester (6-0 FR forward, Warsaw, IN) has announced that she's entering her name into the portal, out of Ball State WBB

Michigan WBB has announced that junior guard Macy Brown will miss the rest of the NCAA tournament after suffering a torn ACL last weekend; she was averaging 2.5 PPG, 1.3 RPG, and 1.2 APG in 12.4 MPG off the bench

Lauren Hurst (6-3 FR wing/forward, Cleveland, TN) has announced that she's entering her name into the portal, out of Tennessee; the WBB Blog page on her has details on her original recruitment, which came down to Clemson, NC State, and Tennessee wbbblog.com/lauren-hurst/

2026 WBB prospect Sheridan Beal, 5-7 SG, West Bloomfield HS (MI), has announced her commitment to Oakland; former North Alabama signee wbbblog.com/2026-womens-...

Bonnie Deas (5-9 FR guard, Frankston, Victoria, Australia) has announced that she's entering her name into the portal, out of Arkansas WBB —2025-26: 32 GP (32 starts), 28.3 MPG, 10.2 PPG, 9.0 RPG, 2.6 APG, 1.5 SPG

UNC WBB coach Courtney Banghart asked about NCAA tourney seeding: "when the narrative starts with so many Big Ten teams ranked, it's hard to unrank them, because they don't play a lot of the other people" (for the record, Michigan played ND, UConn, Syracuse, Vandy) www.asapsports.com/show_intervi...

Hana Haden has been named the new Memphis WBB head coach; she's been the head coach at Georgia Southern the last two seasons, with earlier stints at Georgia Southwestern State (D-II) and Moberly Area CC gotigersgo.com/news/2026/3/...

New Nevada WBB head coach Kelly Sopak has signed a five-year contract with $1.85 million in base salary; yearly salary starts at $350,000 and tops out at $390,000, considerably more than the $260,000 a year that Amanda Levens, his predecessor, topped out at nevadasportsnet.com/news/reporte...

LA Sneed (5-6 FR point guard, San Antonio, TX) has announced she'll be entering her name into the portal, out of Utah WBB —2025-26: 32 GP (16 starts), 26.1 MPG, 6.3 PPG, 2.2 RPG, 3.3 APG

14 jobs filled, 22 open on the WBB Blog coaching changes tracker —the Kansas City opening was filled by Candi Whitaker leaving North Alabama, a spot taken by Anna Nimz leaving Northwestern State wbbblog.com/womens-baske...

Anna Nimz has been named the new North Alabama WBB head coach; she's been the head coach at Northwestern State the last six seasons roarlions.com/news/2026/3/...

Kayl Petersen (6-0 SO wing, Waupun, WI), has announced she'll be entering her name into portal, out of Virginia Tech WBB

Recent official WBB entrants into the portal include grad transfers from George Mason, Indiana State, Longwood, Maine, Marquette, Merrimack, Montana, UNC Asheville, UNCW, Northern Colorado, Oregon, Penn State, Saint Francis, and Tennessee wbbblog.com/womens-baske...

2026 WBB prospect Arynn Finley, 5-10 SG, Etiwanda HS (Rancho Cucamonga, CA), has announced her commitment to Arizona; had signed with Florida but reopened her recruitment following the coaching change wbbblog.com/2026-womens-...

Northwestern recruiting page/scholarship chart on WBB Blog wbbblog.com/northwestern...

Jada Williams (5-8 SO point guard, Kansas City, MO) has announced she'll be entering her name into the portal, out of Iowa State WBB —2025-26: 15.3 PPG, 3.5 RPG, 7.7 APG (top 5 nationally), first-team All–Big 12 —started out her college career at Arizona

Carla Berube has been named the new Northwestern WBB head coach; she's been the head coach at Princeton for the last seven seasons nusports.com/news/2026/3/...

Filipa Barros (5-9 RS JR guard, Vermoim Maia, Portugal) has entered her name into the portal as a grad transfer out of California Baptist WBB; 2025-26: 11.0 PPG, 9.9 RPG, 4.7 APG, 2.7 SPG, first-team All-WAC

Mandy Pearson has been named the new St. Thomas WBB head coach; she's been the head coach at Minnesota Duluth (D-II) the last 11 seasons tommiesports.com/news/2026/3/...

Roosevelt University (D-II) WBB transfer Marie Outlay (5-9 JR guard, Sun Prairie, WI) has announced her commitment to Detroit Mercy; averaged 12.1 PPG, 6.8 RPG, and 1.6 APG in 2025-26

Recent official WBB entrants into the portal include grad transfers from Houston, Mercyhurst, and Valpo (Milana Nenadic: 9.4 PPG, 5.3 RPG); on the NAIA front, Taliah Lee (Mid-American Christian University, 12.8 PPG, 6.8 RPG) is exploring a transfer wbbblog.com/womens-baske...

11 jobs filled, 23 open on the WBB Blog coaching changes tracker wbbblog.com/womens-baske...

Kelly Sopak has been named the new Nevada WBB head coach; a Nevada alum, Sopak is the founder of the Cal Stars club program and has coached at the high school level at Miramonte and Carondelet; his former players include Sabrina Ionescu nevadawolfpack.com/news/2026/3/...

Hearing that Maya Anderson (6-1 RS SO wing, Toronto, ON) is entering her name into the portal, out of San José State WBB; 2025-26: 32 GP (32 starts), 33.2 MPG, 13.9 PPG, 6.7 RPG, 1.6 APG, 1.4 SPG

Alabama ranked last in the SEC for WBB spending in 2025 (paywalled article) www.al.com/alabamabaske...

Kristy Curry has been named the new South Florida WBB head coach; she's been head coach at Alabama for the last 13 seasons, with earlier stints at Purdue and Texas Tech gousfbulls.com/news/2026/3/...

Karsen Marshall, 5-9 juco sophomore SG, Mt. San Jacinto College (CA) / Wildomar, CA, has announced her commitment to Indiana State WBB; 2025-26: 22.8 PPG, 7.0 RPG, 2.6 APG; spent her freshman season at Cal State Northridge

Chikae Desdunes, 5-10 CG, DME Academy (Daytona Beach, FL) / hometown: New Orleans, LA—the only 2026 signee for Penn State WBB—has announced she's reopening her recruitment; her other finalists when she committed to PSU were Auburn, Baylor, Michigan State, Purdue, and West Virginia

Reese Beaty (5-8 FR point guard, Jamestown, TN) has announced she'll be entering her name into the portal, out of Iowa State WBB; her other finalists when she committed to the Cyclones were Michigan, Middle Tennessee, Mississippi State, Missouri, Penn State, and West Virginia

UNC Wilmington WBB grad transfer Kate Hollifield (5-10 SR shooting guard, Shelby, NC) has landed at Western Carolina; she started her college career at Belmont

2026 WBB prospect Sydney Murphy, 5-5 SG, Memorial HS (Frisco, TX), has announced her commitment to UNCG wbbblog.com/2026-womens-...