Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Jan. 22, 2026 MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The South Alabama Women’s Basketball team will face Georgia State at home for a chance at their third conference victory of the season.

The 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup will take place next September in Berlin, and one can guess that Paige Bueckers and Caitlin Clark should be making their debuts for the senior national team on the world stage.

From Paige Bueckers in 2022 to JuJu Watkins last March, many of the world’s best female players are suffering serious knee injuries.

Adding to her list of accolades, Iowa women's basketball signee McKenna Woliczko joins the 2026 Team USA Women's Nike Hoops Summit roster.

Louisville and Iowa secured spots in the top 10 of the USA Today women's basketball coaches poll this week. Meanwhile, Notre Dame fell out.

Big Ten women's basketball is in the thick of league play, and intriguing storylines are forming left and right. The top team seems clear but not much beyond that. It’ll be a nightly battle for league supremacy all the way through this intriguing Big Ten race.

Thursday was a dramatic day for SEC women's basketball. Here's where the standings sit after another exciting night of games.

An NBA game, an NHL contest and dozens of college basketball games across a wide swath of the country are being reshuffled because of an approaching major winter storm.