Locked On Women's Basketball – Daily Podcast On The WNBA

What records has Maddy Siegrist broken? What is going on with UConn? How has Kennedy Fauntleroy helped Georgetown this season? Tee Baker, BIG EAST writer at The Next joins host Natalie Heavren to discuss all things Wildcats, Huskies and Hoyas. 

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Host Howard Megdal is joined by The Next's Isabel Rodrigues, who wrote a vital, deeply-reported piece on the impact of the current WNBA CBA on the league's middle class. What prioritization does, why it matters, and how the league moves forward from here are all addressed. The ramifications will define what women's pro basketball is here and around the world for many years to come.

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Host Howard Megdal is joined by Sean Forman, who has revolutionized the way we understand and process data in sports, from his pioneering Baseball-Reference.com through what's turned into an empire of data across the sports landscape. Most exciting to all of us? Now that he's done so for the WNBA, his team has begun assembling the same level of data with care for women's college basketball. Dive into how it happened, what the timeline for it is, and most of all, revel in the democratization of data, as Sean calls in, across the women's sports landscape at last.

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Host Jackie Powell is once again joined by The Athletic's Sabreena Merchant to dish out our grades for each WNBA team and their corresponding moves during free agency. In our second part of our two part special, Jackie and Sabreena go over the off- seasons of the Las Vegas Aces, the Minnesota Lynx, the New York Liberty, the Phoenix Mercury, Seattle Storm and Washington Mystics. 

Note: This episode was recorded before the four team trade between the Chicago Sky, Dallas Wings, Phoenix Mercury and New York Liberty. And it was recorded before the Mercury signed unrestricted free agent Moriah Jefferson and the Dream claimed Iliana Rupert off waivers. 

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Feb. 12 was Super Bowl Sunday but the pre-show matchup was #1 South Carolina hosting #5 LSU - the a battle of the unbeatens in women's college basketball. LSU learned, like so many before them, how hard it is to beat the reigning national champions. What makes South Carolina so good? Where does LSU go from here? What does it mean for this week's AP Top 25 Poll? Analyst Missy Heidrick and The Next's Alex Simon break it all down on Locked on Women's Basketball.

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Host Hunter Cruse is joined by co-host Em Adler for a detailed scouting report on Stanford's Haley Jones, a projected lottery pick in 2023 WNBA Draft.

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Host Jackie Powell is joined by The Athletic's Sabreena Merchant to dish out our grades for each WNBA team and their corresponding moves during free agency. We won’t be that harsh, but we won’t not be critical. In the first part of our two part special, Jackie and Sabreena go over the off- seasons of the Atlanta Dream, Connecticut Sun, Chicago Sky, Dallas Wings and LA Sparks.

Note: This episode was recorded before the report that came out on Friday afternoon that Diamond DeShields will be traded to the Dallas Wings in a four team trade.

Read Sabreena's Winners and losers of WNBA Free agency here:

https://theathletic.com/4165228/2023/02/09/2023-wnba-free-agency-winners-losers/

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No one had Brooke Wyckoff's Florida State team where they are -- 20-5 overall, 9-3 in the ACC, contending for a top-four seed in the NCAA Tournament and playing a brand of basketball that is must-see every night. Wyckoff joins host Howard Megdal to discuss how it's all come together, what makes Ta'Niya Latson so special, and why a program defined by former head coach Sue Semrau has its sights set on something even the glory years with Sue and Brooke as a player never accomplished: a Final Four appearance.

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Host Howard Megdal, who broke the news at The Next this morning that nine league sources confirmed the WNBA is investigating the Las Vegas Aces for circumvention of the salary cap, provides fresh new insights into his reporting along with Jacob Mox, a WNBA salary cap expert.

The two discuss both what happened and how it has come to this, along with what powers the league has to impose penalties if it determines improper behavior occurred, and what it all means for the league’s future writ large.

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Host Howard Megdal was live Sunday at UConn's 81-77 loss to South Carolina and he has a lot of lessons learned from this one. Geno Auriemma discussed Aaliyah Edwards' efficiency, as did Edwards herself. Dawn Staley discussed Raven Johnson's breakout while she and Aliyah Boston talked about her evolving perimeter game. What does it all mean for the rest of the season? Find out here.

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