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After Women's Basketball's Explosive Year, What Comes Next?

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Monday brought news that head coach Stephanie White was leaving the Connecticut Sun, followed by speculation that she would be moving to a new team in the coming days. White was the seventh head coach to leave or be fired in the WNBA this offseason, meaning a majority of the league’s twelve teams will be under new leadership next season. Considering the explosive growth the league saw in 2024, it’s clear that the stakes are ramping up for leaders at every level. So with college basketball tipping off next week and the intrigue of the WNBA offseason heating up, Alexa Philippou looks back at the year that was, examines the college stars ready to fill Caitlin Clark’s shoes, and explores what it all means for where this game is going in 2025 and beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Alexa Philippu, the W&B finals are now behind us, but guess what? College Hoopes is about to start.

0:07.0

Do you have any sense of like what it's like to get a full night sleep?

0:11.0

Um, not quite, because now we have so much craziness happening even after the season ended in the W.

0:21.6

We're team no sleep over here, but we're taking this time right now without actual games to be at or cover or watch and you know getting some quality time with my dog.

0:31.0

But yeah, then we're right back into the college season. We have over half the

0:36.3

league having dispatched their head coaches parted ways fired what have you are you shocked to see this kind of turnover after the kind of

0:45.2

of 2024 season that we had initially I was surprised because the amount I mean this is

0:50.2

unprecedented in the league it's basically we've never seen this since literally the league's first year

0:55.5

when obviously they were hiring from scratch.

0:57.2

So from that sense, it's unprecedented,

0:59.7

it's something we've never seen before.

1:01.8

But I do feel like it also speaks to how there is so much attention

1:06.5

and pressure on this moment to maximize what we're seeing across the board for women's basketball.

1:11.5

So there's a pressure to win, there's a pressure to perform.

1:14.2

That's maybe not every individual reason

1:16.4

why some of these coaches aren't in their jobs anymore,

1:19.2

but I think that can kind of paint the picture of what we're seeing.

1:23.2

I do think though the talent and the actual level of basketball

1:26.9

that we're seeing in the WMBA.

1:28.8

I mean, we can talk about the finals

1:30.2

and how incredible they were

1:31.7

and that we're going to see with the college season. And that's something that we're going to see with the college season though

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