Anstey retired from basketball if anyone was unaware.
Poa apparently is ok now and back at training soon.

i was getting worried nobody was going to raise any threads re NCAA - thank you !

i was getting worried nobody was going to raise any threads re NCAA - thank you ! Texas the diamond in the rough IMO. Virginia Tech will depend on the injury

I think Kayo will have some games randomly mixed in with the men but otherwise its VPNs or boxscores. :(

how do you access the additional channels PW? Via their website with your Foxtel login?

Desktop:

https://www.espn.com.au/watch/?redirected=true

Click on the profile menu in the top right hand corner to select 'ESPN Play Provider'.

Mobile:

Download via links found on https://espnapp.com.au/

Yes, you login using your account details from the TV provider (Fetch or Foxtel).

Thanks, PW

Thanks PerthWorld - what a legend !

Interesting stuff PW! Hadn't known that. Always figured Fetch was just for people without a smart tv and wanted budget foxtel. Will have to keep an eye out for deals.

The college portal "season" is also under way. We've already had Holly Griffith (ex Southside dp) and Alana Goodchild (ex Bendigo dp) leave their college already. Chaos to keep track of.

Men's NCAAT has already started, Women is tomorrow, let's go!

awesome! Thanks PW!
QW - why have Griffiths & Goodchild left?

You're all very welcome.

Interesting stuff PW! Hadn't known that. Always figured Fetch was just for people without a smart tv and wanted budget foxtel. Will have to keep an eye out for deals.

@Footloose There's too many possible reasons to know exactly unless its specifically reported. College Portal is like free agency, players can move anywhere they want to if they get an offer. Most of the time I think it comes down to trying to get better game time or on better teams. There could be fit issues too.

Eg, Summah Hanson (Qld/CoE), rookie of the year in her conference, she and most of her team are in portal, something might be going on there. Summah Evans (Qld) too had all-conference honours, maybe she's trying to get to a better team in last year of eligibility?

Kitley announced what everyone was already assuming - that her injury was an ACL - so that kills VT's chances of going deep unfortunately. It didn't stop VT destroying Marshall, with Amoore logging only 20 minutes (and a pretty meh game statistically, but it didn't remotely matter)

(6) Nebraska vs (11) Texas A&M hopefully more interesting from the aussie fan POV, tipping off in just over an hour

Thanks Quokka

Thanks again for the heads up on how to watch these women's games PW. Nebraska are really struggling to close this one out

Jaz has had a shocker so far. Will be forgiven if she can arrest this choke though.

Need to stop turning the ball over!!

Very lucky to live to fight another day

Very! Hopefully Shelley plays better in the next round

Thanks again for the heads up on how to watch these women's games PW.

just watched Amoore vrs marshall = Sue Bird-esque - next level stuff

wall feature is awesome! There's so many Aussies to watch and not enough time!

Most ofnthe Aussies pretty much knocked out already, not many left.

I'm kinda shocked that Poa is back in action already after that nasty head injury a couple of weeks ago. I hadn't even been checking LSU scores but they're still dancing, with Poa logging 19 & 14 minutes in the 2 games.

Amoore & the Hokies tip off in a few minutes. Will take a special effort for them to get through.

They went down swinging, but they went down.
VT gone.

Amoore out.
Too much hesitation with everything she does, struggled with just a little bit of pressure.

Did she really struggle with pressure? I don't think so, just that VT did not have the depth without Kitley.

She struggled...
She's free to do what she wants in her conference. A bit of d and she has issues, the same thing happened to heal when she went to the wnba.

a few aussies in the Oregeon State v Nebraska game !

Amoore has frequently played at a very high level against high quality opposition, not playing a great game today is a tiny aberration on her stellar record.

Amoore will make a very good guard in the WNBL.

absolutely Cosmo - anyone not trying to recruit her must have great players in that position already. I'm seeing shades of Sue Bird in her game.

Sue Bird?
No pressure...

She will be a good get for any wnbl team.
Staying in the wnba and cementing a long term opals spot will be difficult.
Think she will be like heal, in and out of opals teams and ending up in europe.

Amoore has left VT. No details on if she's going to Kentucky with the coach for her last year, or announcing going pro/WNBA draft. I think the deadline is April 5th.

Tess Heal is in the portal, seems like she's in high demand to land at a power conference team. Summah Hanson stayed in California, went to UC Irvine who got the tournament bid in Big West this year (same conference Atwell played at Hawaii).

It's been a tournament of close games but few upsets so far, still have 5 teams with Aussies on them of the remaining 16 teams. Bandwagoning the Beavers this tournie but Notre Dame and Hidalgo will be tough to beat. Don't think anyone is stopping SC overall, the LSU v Iowa matchup feels inevitable too.

Deadline to nominate is April 1st, unless the player is still alive in the tournament in which case it is 48 hours after their last game.

Amoore talked about him being her American dad at the presser after they were knocked out. Maybe she's agreed to help him establish himself in Kentucky? I don’t like it, considering foreigners can’t get NIL she should turn pro now

Amoore should do whatever she feels like.
If she is loving the college experience then why not get another year of it. The rest of her career can wait 12 months.

Does Kitley remain?
Shelley apparently going pro.

Kitley has already done her 5 years in college.

Sorry strack, both Amoore and her now following kentucky on socials.

Amoore should do whatever she feels like.
If she is loving the college experience then why not get another year of it. The rest of her career can wait 12 months.

As long as that's the reason and not that she's heading to Kentucky because she thinks she owes Coach Brooks something more that she's already given him. It's been a very mutually beneficial partnership.

More money also a reason.

Amoore in the portal and most likely to join Brooks at Kentucky. Wow, for someone rated to go first round in draft and cant access NIL, very surprising.

Nil is getting slowly easier for foreign players year by year.
I'm sure she’ll be fine and has thought this out.

Amoore stocks are gonna drop next year if she ends up in the sec.

Incredible pace so far in this showdown. Setting up for a cracker!

Amoore stocks are gonna drop next year if she ends up in the sec.

100%! I really hope Brooks is paying her to do this for him.

Unexpected surprise that with Poa and LSU knocked out, last Aussie standing in the Final Four...SA's Lizzy Williamson at NC State. Used her last year of eligibility to be their back-up centre who doesn't really play, so not likely to see her play, but props to her and the roster for making it so far. Experience of a lifetime.

looks like we're getting that much anticipated match up of Clarke v Beuckers

Delicious

Gamecocks progress to the championship game as expected.

30 minutes away from Clark vs Bueckers to see who they will face.

I expect South Carolina to win it all, no matter how much we've jumped on the Clark & Bueckers bandwagons.

SC has only lost once in the last 2 seasons..

Good to see they are trying to deny Clark the ball for once.

Yep, she looks very frustrated by it

Iowa pullin away late, good story for the final.

How clever is Clarke?!

Not a great game, but staying close kept me glued to it.
Stuelke & Martin came up big with Clark being as well contained as Geno could possibly hope for.

SC will likely make mince meat out of them though. A lot of tired and banged up bodies at the end of that game.

Wellity, wellity, wellity. They made it! Second time lucky?

A 5am Monday morning date with Caitlin it is.

Imagine the ratings for this one.

Iowa are -6.5 point underdogs.

A 5am Monday morning date with Caitlin it is.

Imagine the ratings for this one.

Argh they changed it to 3am.

Provisionally it was 5:30am.

Agreed re: ratings.

Iowa-UConn rated 13.2 million, breaking the 12.3 million record of Iowa-LSU last weekend.

That was some final! Greatest player of all time couldn't stop the greatest team in modern college hoops. Says something that they can replace their 5 wnba starters to go undefeated in the season. Well done South Carolina.

Amazing college career Clark had, best ever.

Credit to South Carolina and coach staley.
I wonder how much the spend is on players in the sec compared to other conferences.

The Iowa-South Carolina national championship game averaged 18.7 million viewers.

That makes it the most watched basketball game — men's or women's, college or professional — in five years.

Massive.

UConn win the men's tournament just quietly.

^ watched by 14.8 million people

Sounds like the women deserve the prime time slot next year.

Luuuc - yes you are correct re time slots. I am looking forward to CC and Boston's P&R actions in the future. No doubt allow time for adjustments and no doubt smarter players - however CC's agility and speed will do extremely well in the WNBA. Already tickets are selling well and I read that the Aces had to find a bigger arena for their game against the Fever. Looking at teh geography - is the Fever CC's "local" team too ?

Indiana, Minnesota, and Chicago all a similar distance I think. Pretty sure she grew up a Minnesota Lynx fan.

As luck(?) would have it her boyfriend (who I think graduated from Iowa last year) is employed by Indiana Pacers (maybe as a video guy?), who just happen to share ownership with the Fever!