Michael Voepel

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Michael Voepel

ESPN Senior Writer

Michael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women's college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women's basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.

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Alexa Philippou

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Alexa Philippou

Women's Basketball Reporter

Covers women's college basketball and the WNBA

Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant

Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer

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Kendra Andrews

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Kareem Copeland

May 4, 2026, 01:50 PM ET

During the most difficult periods of collective bargaining negotiations from October to March, it seemed we might not get here.…