NCAA Women's Basketball News

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.

The Atlantic Coast Conference has scrapped a plan to hold next year's postseason baseball tournament in Boston.

Any meaningful restraint in spending on collegiate sports needs to start with the nation's top athletic programs, a leading researcher on the future of higher education told the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics Monday.

Jamelle Elliott didn't have any previous head-coaching experience before accepting the Cincinnati women's basketball job Tuesday.

Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma told the fans who turned out at Sunday's parade for his national champion Huskies not to expect another 39-0 season next year.

Connecticut's Tina Charles, who led the Huskies with 25 points, gets a hug from a teammate during their defeat of Louisville in the title game.