NCAA Women's Basketball News

Thanks to Ashley Barlow, Notre Dame withstood a tough test on the road. Barlow scored 18 points and hit a tiebreaking free throw with 10 seconds left, lifting the sixth-ranked Fighting Irish to a 68-67 victory over No.

Maya Moore found something for top-ranked Connecticut's already stifling defense to work on even in another lopsided win.

Aisha Jefferson scored 16 points to help No. 10 Michigan State beat Detroit 71-62 on Sunday for its first win of the season.

To fans who say they could watch college basketball 24 hours a day, ESPN is once again giving you that chance.

Porsha Phillips and Jasmine James each scored 15 points and Georgia held off No.

The NCAA says it's heartened by findings from a new gambling study that, among other things, shows fewer college athletes betting heavily on sports.

Though not all precincts have reported, Duke has the early lead as the top 2010 recruiting class thanks to the depth and breadth of its five players.

North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell says Jessica Breland's Hodgkin's lymphoma has gone into remission, though it's still unclear whether the senior will be able to play this season.

An assistant women's basketball coach at Eastern Illinois University is dead. The university says Jackie Moore died Wednesday night at a hospital just outside Charleston.

Capsules for every Division I women's basketball conference: America East Vermont ended a nine-year NCAA tournament drought last season, knocking off Boston University and Hartford in the conference playoffs after finishing third in the regular season.

Two University of Colorado women's basketball players are recovering from minor injuries from a weekend car accident.

Highly touted California freshman forward Tierra Rogers will not play for the Golden Bears after being diagnosed this week with a rare heart condition and having a defibrillator implanted Thursday.

Oscar Robertson and coach Pete Newell will be inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame for leading the United States to the basketball gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics.

ESPN is planning to debut a women's basketball version of its College GameDay program in January before a game between Notre Dame and Connecticut.

Citing issues associated with a $60 million renovation of The Pit, the NCAA is moving 2010 first- and second-round women's basketball tournament games from Albuquerque to Stanford, Calif.

Tennessee forward Amber Gray will leave a Cincinnati rehabilitation facility where she was recovering from brain surgery more than two weeks earlier than expected.

Andy Landers is signed to remain the Georgia women's basketball coach for three more years, through the 2013-14 season.

While Epiphanny Prince, who is bypassing her senior basketball season at Rutgers, is the among the biggest female names to leave for the pros despite having college eligibility, her move is unlikely to produce a trend, some in the game say.

The NCAA placed Alabama's football program and 15 other of the school's athletic teams on three years' probation for major violations due to misuse of free textbooks.

Elena DelleDonne, the 2008 national high school girls basketball player of the year, is returning to basketball and will do so in a University of Delaware uniform, The News Journal has learned.