Howard Payne women's basketball news

  • 2023 title game is seventh heaven
    April 01, 2023
    Saturday's title game between No. 1 Christopher Newport and No. 2 Transylvania is just the seventh time the top two teams in our poll will play each other in the NCAA Tournament. To celebrate the special occasion, we look back at the previous six 1-versus-2 matchups with some help from the coaches and players who won those games.
  • Team of the Week
    December 13, 2021
    D3hoops.com's weekly honor roll celebrates its 25th season, honoring the best players at each position for the past week. It's the D3hoops.com Team of the Week, presented by Scoutware.
  • All-Decade team: Filling the gap
    January 06, 2021
    When we decided to change the timing of our All-Decade teams, we knew we were leaving some talented and decorated Division III student-athletes out. But we do not forget, even 12-13 years later, the best of the seniors who graduated in 2008 and 2009. It's our All-Gap team.
  • Howard Payne names new women's coach
    May 21, 2018
    Howard Payne tabbed UT-Rio Grande Valley assistant Yannick Denson as its new head women's basketball coach. He replaces former D3hoops.com Player of the Year Meia Daniels-Netter, who stepped down in April.
  • Netter submits resignation at Howard Payne
    April 11, 2018
    Meia Netter, who led Howard Payne to the national title and was the 2008 D3hoops.com Player of the Year as a senior, spent five years as head coach at her alma mater.
  • Saturday women: Sounds Payne-ful
    December 03, 2016
    Two teams ranked in the Top 10 went down to defeat as Puget Sound ended George Fox's streak in the NWC and Howard Payne made sure not to miss a second chance at upsetting Texas-Tyler. Meanwhile Wheaton cruised past Elmhurst and Sara Tarbert torched Widener. That and more in Saturday's recap.
  • First to reach the elite feat
    June 11, 2015
    There have only been eight seasons in which a D3 women's basketball player swept the major individual awards and led their team to a national title. Thirty years before Sydney Moss, Deanna Klingman was the first to accomplish this elite feat. Read about it in part 2 of our series.
  • 2008 player of the year named head coach
    June 11, 2013
    Howard Payne announced that former D3hoops.com Player of the Year and current women's assistant basketball coach Meia Daniels will take over the women's basketball program.
  • Prock leaves Howard Payne for D-II job
    June 08, 2013
    HPU women's basketball coach Joshua Prock announced he will be leaving Howard Payne to take the head women's basketball position at Division II Eastern New Mexico.
  • Daniels Returns To Howard Payne
    April 16, 2012
    BROWNWOOD, Texas – The Howard Payne University athletic department today announced the hiring of former NCAA III National Player of the Year and Howard Payne alumnus Meia Daniels as assistant women’s basketball coach.
  • Final automatic bids grabbed
    February 27, 2011
    Franklin and Marshall can smile after winning the Centennial Conference's automatic bid. Find out who else can celebrate heading into tomorrow's NCAA tournament selections.