MACOMB, IL - - For a group of Western Illinois University students, the Ohio Valley Conference Women's Basketball Championship at the Ford Center in Evansville, IN, was more than a title run. It was a ...

In the women’s tournament, #4 seed UNC opened play at home against #13 seed Western Illinois Leathernecks. WIU earned their ...

It's UNC women's basketball vs. Western Illinois in March Madness to open the 2026 NCAA Tournament. Here's what to know.

MACOMB, Ill. — The Western Illinois University Alumni Association invites alumni, friends, and fans across the country to gather and cheer on Leatherneck women's basketball during the NCAA Tournament.

Head coach J.D. Gravina of the Western Illinois Leathernecks talks to his players in the second half against the Iowa Hawkeyes on Nov. 26, 2025, at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa. Head coach ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Nyla Harris scored 17 points, Lanie Grant had 15 and North Carolina rolled past cold-shooting Western Illinois 82-51 on Friday night in the first round of the women’s NCAA ...

Mylee Stiefel has known since she was a little girl that she one day would play college basketball. After 12 years of hard ...

That was the number of 3-pointers that Western Illinois had scored going into the start of the fourth quarter. The Leathernecks finished the game shooting 13 percent from beyond the arc, hitting only ...