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  • Caitlin Clark and Team USA's Present vs. Future, The WNBA Labor Winds Shift and the NCAA's Player of the Year Ladder| Ball Up Top: A WBB Podcast

    Caitlin Clark and Team USA's Present vs. Future, The WNBA Labor Winds Shift and the NCAA's Player of the Year Ladder| Ball Up Top: A WBB Podcast
    2025/12/17

    This week on Ball Up Top, Chauny caught wind of Super Secret White Guy Chat and immediately mustered the full crew for a pre-holiday podcast. It’s a full boat with Andrew, Chauny, Greer and Tyler on hand to break down a great week of Team USA basketball, the WNBA’s continuing labor fight and a close look at the NCAA Player of the Year race.

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    The show opens with a quick update on the ongoing WNBA collective bargaining agreement dispute. With Caitlin Clark’s comments at Team USA camp followed up by a conciliatory tone by NBA commissioner Adam Silver on Tuesday, it feels as though there’s an opportunity for both sides to have a 2026 season after all.

    Our crew then dives into Team USA camp, the changing of the guard that may be happening and some of the deeper dynamics — sometimes jokingly called The Storrs Mafia or the-UConn-Media-Industrial-Complex — that go into selection and national team discussion.

    That dovetails perfectly into a conversation about the NCAA Player of the Year races in women’s college basketball. While Sarah Strong and Azzi Fudd continue to lead the way, our team asks if there are enough narratives in Big East play for UConn to build a case for their players? And where do other talented players from South Carolina’s Joyce Edwards to Richmond’s Maggie Doogan fit in?

    0:00 - Show Introduction.

    1:07 - Caitlin Clark, Adam Silver and the thawing WNBA Labor Fight…

    12:01 - Unrivaled’s start and the leverage of player coalitions…

    22:38 - Team USA Camp thoughts & reactions

    41:20 - NCAA Player of the Year ladder

    Our musical intros are brought to you by Denver’s King of Mile HiFi, DLZMKSBTS. You can check out his music on Spotify and YouTube.

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  • Iowa vs. Iowa State, A'ja Wilson's Named TIME Athlete of the Year and A Press Row View of the Aaliyah Chavez Experience

    Iowa vs. Iowa State, A'ja Wilson's Named TIME Athlete of the Year and A Press Row View of the Aaliyah Chavez Experience
    2025/12/10

    This week's Ball Up Top opens with a discussion about A’ja Wilson winning TIME Athlete of the Year, how both hosts feel about the feature story and the storytelling around the Aces forward. Andrew expresses his distaste for the dialogue surrounding Wilson and Caitlin Clark and why it’s time for everyone to let 2023 go.


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    After dispensing with the pleasantries, the basketball talk begins with a preview of Wednesday night’s Cy-Hawk rivalry game between No. 10 Iowa State and No. 11 Iowa. The duo discuss how the Hawkeyes plan on defending superstar center Audi Crooks and if this is the Jada Williams breakout game basketball fans have been waiting three years for.

    There were also some eye catching upsets in the last week of NCAA women’s basketball, from Kansas State managing to defeat No. 17 Ole Miss and Wisconsin pulling off a huge win over No. 20 Michigan State. Andrew and Tyler talk about their favorite moments in those games.

    The show wraps with a couple more bigger basketball and culture discussions as Tyler breaks down his experience in Norman, Oklahoma so far covering star freshman guard Aaliyah Chavez before the duo get some jokes off about the fun trash-talking moment between LSU guard Flau’jae Johnson and Duke head coach Kara Lawson.


    0:00 - Show Introduction.

    1:05 - A’ja Wilson wins TIME Athlete of the Year.

    18:50 - Iowa vs. Iowa State Preview

    28:32 - Upsets of the week.

    39:40 - The emerging movement of athlete led by Aaliyah Chavez.

    51:15 - Flau’jae vs. Kara Lawson and the fun of ethical hate.


    Our musical intros are brought to you by Denver’s King of Mile HiFi, DLZMKSBTS. You can check out his music on Spotify and YouTube.

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  • UConn vs Texas for #1, Coaching Stocks, SEC vs ACC Challenge Preview

    UConn vs Texas for #1, Coaching Stocks, SEC vs ACC Challenge Preview
    2025/12/03

    0:00 Intro2:23 UConn vs Texas for #1 22:30 Buying and Selling Coaches Stocks35:33 ACC vs SEC Challenge Preview
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  • Drafting The Best Moments of the 2025 WNBA Season | Ball Up Top: A WBB Podcast

    Drafting The Best Moments of the 2025 WNBA Season | Ball Up Top: A WBB Podcast
    2025/10/15

    The WNBA season is over so we decided to do something special for this week’s Ball Up Top. Tyler, Andrew and Greer are at the sticks and decided to draft their best moments of the 2025 season.

    Below are each staff member’s selection but we’d love to hear from you! Let us know in the comments or share our lists with your friends to figure out who can make the best moment list of the year.

    Greer:

    Paige Bueckers breaks the single game rookie scoring record with 42 points.

    Skylar Diggins doing the electric slide in Minnesota.

    Napheesa Collier’s unsung 50-40-90 season.

    Pink wigs in the Target Center.

    The back and forth battle brewing between A’ja Wilson and Dominique Malonga

    Andrew:

    A’ja Wilson’s WNBA Finals game three winner vs. Phoenix.

    Napheesa Collier destroys Cathy Engelbert in exit interview.

    Caitlin Clark’s high point: 32 points, 8 rebounds, 9 assists vs. New York.

    The mess of June’s Wings vs. Aces game.

    The Rachid Meziane agenda ends on a positive note.

    Tyler:

    Studbudz take over All-Star weekend.

    Players make a statement with ‘pay us what you owe us’ shirts.

    Paige Bueckers and Haley Jones’ legendary meme.

    Jacy Sheldon vs. Sophie Cunningham: The showdown.

    Indiana’s playoff run.

    Missed By Us (But We Wish We Had Back)

    Ballhalla

    Angel Reese vs. The Chicago Sky

    Alyssa Thomas sets triple-double record

    Kelsey Mitchell second half explosion vs. Connecticut

    Kiki Iriafen vs. Sophie Cunningham preseason

    Kiki Iriafen and Stef Dolson make a meme

    If you love the show, we’d love and appreciate a five star rating on Apple podcasts as well as a kind review if you’ve got the time! We’re also on the road to 6,000 subscribers on YouTube and 3,000 followers on TikTok so if you enjoy our content here, tell a friend to tell a friend to follow us on their preferred platform!

    Ball Up Top: A WBB Podcast is brought to you in part by Homefield. Just this past week they revealed the full Can’t Miss Kickoff release schedule with hundreds of new football themed products to get you ready for the fall! Want some women’s hoops merch instead? Check out our No Cap Space WBB collection, a curated page of all of Homefield’s best WBB shirts, jackets, jerseys and more!

    Our intro music is made by Denver’s own DLZMKSBTS, the King of Mile Hi-Fi. Check out all his music on Spotify here and on Instagram here.



    This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nocapspacewbb.com/subscribe
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  • What Comes Next in the WNBA's Labor Battle with Former NBPA Leader Tamika Tremaglio | Ball Up Top: A WBB Podcast

    What Comes Next in the WNBA's Labor Battle with Former NBPA Leader Tamika Tremaglio | Ball Up Top: A WBB Podcast
    2025/10/09

    This week we have a special edition of Ball Up Top for you all. A day late but certainly not a dollar short. As discussion around a possible work stoppage in the WNBA intensifies, we sought out some guidance on how the dynamics at play and the mechanics of a collective bargaining agreement negotiation.

    Tamika Tremaglio is now the Managing Director for the private equity firm Secretariat but was once the Executive Director of the National Basketball Players Association. In 2021, she was selected by NBA players to replace Michele Roberts and helped lead the union to a CBA with the league in 2023. Back in 2020, she also served as an advisor to the WNBPA in their 2020 negotiation.

    Over the course of this podcast, she discusses the component of trust in negotiations, why the players feel like their leverage is the greatest and, perhaps most interestingly, whether the league should just scrap their existing CBA and start over completely.

    If you love the show, we’d love and appreciate a five star rating on Apple podcasts as well as a kind review if you’ve got the time! We’re also on the road to 5,000 subscribers on YouTube and 2,500 followers on TikTok so if you enjoy our content here, tell a friend to tell a friend to follow us on their preferred platform!

    Scroll ahead to hear…

    0:00 - Show introduction.

    1:15 - Tamika Tremaglio’s background.

    3:04 - The art of a labor negotiation.

    4:40 - How both sides view their leverage.

    6:35 - What happens when trust is broken during a labor negotiation.

    10:15 - The uniqueness of the WNBPA’s bargaining position.

    13:38 - The idea of risk-reward as it pertains to the WNBA’s business.

    17:02 - Where pure business and professional respect intersect in negotiations.

    21:30 - The strategy of exercising leverage and why the WNBPA is doing it now.

    24:13 - How WNBA revenue share works.

    26:35 - How the NBA’s ownership of the W makes labor negotiations unique.

    29:14 - Balancing the business with the humanity of a negotiation.

    32:13 - How Unrivaled fits into the calculus of the labor fight.

    34:54 - Could you rip up the CBA and effectively start over?

    39:36 - Is the WNBA’s labor fight a microcosm of a broader labor movement in the United States?

    Ball Up Top: A WBB Podcast is brought to you in part by Homefield. Just this past week they revealed the full Can’t Miss Kickoff release schedule with hundreds of new football themed products to get you ready for the fall! Want some women’s hoops merch instead? Check out our No Cap Space WBB collection, a curated page of all of Homefield’s best WBB shirts, jackets, jerseys and more!

    Our intro music is made by Denver’s own DLZMKSBTS, the King of Mile Hi-Fi. Check out all his music on Spotify here and on Instagram here.

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  • Aces Defeat Fever to make WNBA Finals and The Messiest Day in Recent League History with The Ringer's Seerat Sohi | Ball Up Top: A WBB Podcast

    Aces Defeat Fever to make WNBA Finals and The Messiest Day in Recent League History with The Ringer's Seerat Sohi | Ball Up Top: A WBB Podcast
    2025/10/01

    This was, in essence, the messiest day of the WNBA season this year. Napheesa Collier went scorched earth on league commissioner Cathy Engelbert, prompting widespread support from other players in the W. Sports Business Journal then reported that Engelbert may be on the way out as commissioner at the end of the season. Chris Koclanes was let go as the head coach of the Dallas Wings and, if that wasn’t enough, we had a win-or-go-home matchup in the WNBA semifinals.

    The Ringer WNBA Show’s Seerat Sohi joins Tyler, Chauny and Greer as they react to the Aces heading back to another WNBA Finals as well as all the other madness of the day.

    If you love the show, we’d love and appreciate a five star rating on Apple podcasts as well as a kind review if you’ve got the time! We’re also on the road to 5,000 subscribers on YouTube and 2,500 followers on TikTok so if you enjoy our content here, tell a friend to tell a friend to follow us on their preferred platform!

    Ball Up Top: A WBB Podcast is brought to you in part by Homefield. Just this past week they revealed the full Can’t Miss Kickoff release schedule with hundreds of new football themed products to get you ready for the fall! Want some women’s hoops merch instead? Check out our No Cap Space WBB collection, a curated page of all of Homefield’s best WBB shirts, jackets, jerseys and more!

    Our intro music is made by Denver’s own DLZMKSBTS, the King of Mile Hi-Fi. Check out all his music on Spotify here and on Instagram here.



    This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nocapspacewbb.com/subscribe
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  • Five Out: The Ethical Hater's Postseason, A Gamecock Rivalry and Alyssa Thomas's Legacy Moment

    Five Out: The Ethical Hater's Postseason, A Gamecock Rivalry and Alyssa Thomas's Legacy Moment
    2025/09/29
    Man, has this WNBA postseason delivered. Every game night it feels like we get some new piece of drama, some legacy performances and matchups that go down to the wire. Much like the bars Stefon would recommend on Saturday Night Live, these playoffs have everything. Maybe even Dan Cortese. Who’s to say? Our Playoffathon coverage continues over on YouTube where you can subscribe to our channel. We are live every night after each playoff game and will be doubling down as we head into the WNBA Finals at the end of this week. Who will meet the Phoenix Mercury there? That will be decided on Tuesday when the Indiana Fever and Las Vegas Aces play a win-or-go-home game in Michelob Ultra Arena. It doesn’t get any better than this and, to add on to the craziness that has been the WNBA postseason, the NCAA women’s basketball season starts in just over a month as well. So if you’re considering signing up for our paid subscription tier, which gives you access to our Discord chat, exclusive content and Boots on the Ground features, you won’t be losing a thing when the W is done. We just move right into the next season because the basketball never stops. Now, onto the column! 1. The Mercury Deserve Their Flowers As An OrganizationTo quote the venerable Dril, ‘under no circumstances do you gotta hand to them’. But in this case you do, in fact, have to hand it to Mat Ishbia. What’s fascinating is that you can be from Phoenix and have two totally different opinions of the debutante owner depending on which basketball team you follow more closely. In a lot of ways, Ishbia feels somewhat reminiscent of James Dolan and his ownership of the New York Knicks and New York Rangers. As a fan, it’s felt that whichever of the two teams Dolan is more hands-off with is the team that ends up being more successful. While Ishbia has spent much of his tenure with the Suns appearing to meddle in the day-to-day affairs of the NBA franchise, he’s kept a relatively low profile in the W, writing the checks and allowing the Mercury to run smoothly. That’s resulted in a state-of-the-art team facility that was able to play a role in attracting free agents like Satou Sabally and Alyssa Thomas. It’s also given General Manager Nick U’Ren, the Ball-Knower’s Executive of the Year, the latitude to build out the team as he sees fit. Trading for Thomas and Sabally was a masterstroke but, perhaps more importantly, it all came together in year one. It’s exceedingly rare in this league where free-agent or trade-driven superstar cores gel like this immediately. New York made it to the WNBA Finals in their first season with Breanna Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu and Jonquel Jones but it took until 2024 for them to look the part of a champion. Seattle’s microwaved championship core never made it to the Finals before Noelle Quinn was let go as head coach. Shoot, even L.A., Dallas and Chicago, who tried to load up with veterans to hunt for a playoff spot, ended up not living up to their billing. Yet somehow in Phoenix, where the offense runs through Alyssa Thomas in a way relatively unique in the W’s history, they are four wins away from a title. There may be a lot of flaws in Mat Ishbia as an owner. His organization has dealt with a few different lawsuits and now is on the receiving end of a slew of not-so-rosy stories about allegedly forcing employees to sign paperwork effectively waiving their right to sue for anything. The Suns look like a bit of a clown show and had to deal away Kevin Durant after a nothingburger of a tenure. And yet, things look about as good as they can on the women’s side of things. They flipped over their roster completely with a coach who has proven to be one of the better in-game tacticians in the league while also making the needed investments to compete. If you choose to look at this with a glass half full mindset, it is a great precedent and signal to the next set of expansion teams coming into the league. Basically, if you invest appropriately, you too can be a Golden State, a Phoenix, Las Vegas or New York. The teams that are putting their money where their mouths are happen to be the ones succeeding. For a league and a sport that has been saying that investment will lead to success for over two decades, it’s nice to see that axiom be proven true time and time again. 2. Alyssa Thomas Is Having Her Legacy PostseasonI know that Alyssa Thomas and her play style aren’t for everyone. It’s important to note that that indeed is okay. To me, the more play styles you have in a sports league, the more interesting things can be from a schematic perspective. College football fans may hate to see a triple option or flexbone team but I sure love to see coaches try to figure it out. In the same vein, there just aren’t a lot of WNBA teams running inverted pick-and-roll with a physically gifted power forward who is a regular triple-double threat. It’s fair for some people to not enjoy the shoulder checks ...
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  • The Aces Get Their Lick Back, Phoenix Pulls Even and The Coaching Carousel Turns | Ball Up Top: A WBB Podcast

    The Aces Get Their Lick Back, Phoenix Pulls Even and The Coaching Carousel Turns | Ball Up Top: A WBB Podcast
    2025/09/24

    Welcome to Ball Up Top, a weekly podcast from No Cap Space WBB. Every Wednesday, you can find a show in your emails or social feeds that touches on all the trending topics in women’s basketball. The crew will rotate based on availability, whether it’s Tyler, Andrew, Chauny, Greer or Rashard.

    As the WNBA playoffs roll on, our crew has been hard at work giving you day-of previews and night-of recaps every single night of games. As it just so happens, game two of the Semifinals, featuring the Indiana Fever, Las Vegas, Phoenix Mercury and Minnesota Lynx, landed on our typical Ball Up Top recording night. Tyler and Chauny take the mic and break down everything that happened in game two as well as some of the major coaching changes, from Sandy Brondello in New York to Noelle Quinn in Seattle, and what comes next for both franchises.

    If you love the show, we’d love and appreciate a five star rating on Apple podcasts as well as a kind review if you’ve got the time! We’re also on the road to 5,000 subscribers on YouTube and 2,500 followers on TikTok so if you enjoy our content here, tell a friend to tell a friend to follow us on their preferred platform!

    Ball Up Top: A WBB Podcast is brought to you in part by Homefield. Just this past week they revealed the full Can’t Miss Kickoff release schedule with hundreds of new football themed products to get you ready for the fall! Want some women’s hoops merch instead? Check out our No Cap Space WBB collection, a curated page of all of Homefield’s best WBB shirts, jackets, jerseys and more!

    Our intro music is made by Denver’s own DLZMKSBTS, the King of Mile Hi-Fi. Check out all his music on Spotify here and on Instagram here.



    This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nocapspacewbb.com/subscribe
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