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By GARRETT COTE

For the third consecutive season, the Smith College women’s basketball team is headed to the NCAA Division III Final Four. The Pioneers held their send off outside of Ainsworth Gymnasium on Tuesday afternoon, as they walked through a crowd of supporters and onto their team bus, which headed to the airport where they took off for Virginia.

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — Ally Yamada and Sofia Rosa sat on the floor of Ainsworth Gymnasium behind the group of 16 Smith College women’s basketball players as Pioneers assistant coach Jen MacAulay broke down film on Smith’s NCAA Division III Final Four opponent, Wisconsin-Oshkosh, on Monday afternoon.

By GARRETT COTE

Smith College is ‘elite’ once again.

By GARRETT COTE

When the NCAA Division 3 Women’s Basketball bracket was released on March 3, Smith College was thrilled to be hosting yet another opening weekend, just as it had done the previous three tournaments. But despite earning the right to play first and second round games at home, the Pioneers were given an extremely rigorous path to a potential third straight Final Four.

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — A college basketball team doesn’t wind up in Sweet 16, Final Four and national championship games in consecutive seasons coincidentally. And if you walk into Ainsworth Gymnasium at some point this winter, it’s evident why Smith College...

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — The Smith College women’s basketball team only has one destination in mind after losing in the NCAA Division 3 championship game last season, and that’s making yet another deep postseason run come next March.The Pioneers have become a...

By GARRETT COTE

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Wartburg’s Sarah Faber stepped back and let fly a 3-pointer in the waning moments of regulation against Smith College in the NCAA Division 3 Final Four on Thursday night. If she missed, the Pioneers would go to their first-ever...

By GARRETT COTE

Trailing by one point with under five minutes left in the game, the Smith College women’s basketball team found itself in an unfamiliar situation.It wasn’t the fact that the Pioneers were trailing in the fourth quarter of an NCAA Division 3 Elite...

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — Anticipation built as teams across Division 3 waited to hear their name called on selection Sunday. Smith College was coming off its best season (at the time) under head coach Lynn Hersey, going 16-2 in the NEWMAC, but the Pioneers came...