Emma Baccellieri

Emma Baccellieri

Joined: Jan 1, 2018

Emma Baccellieri is a staff writer who focuses on baseball and women's sports for Sports Illustrated. She previously wrote for Baseball Prospectus and Deadspin, and has appeared on BBC News, PBS NewsHour and MLB Network. Baccellieri has been honored with multiple awards from the Society of American Baseball Research, including the SABR Analytics Conference Research Award in historical analysis (2022), McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award (2020) and SABR Analytics Conference Research Award in contemporary commentary (2018). A graduate from Duke University, she’s also a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America.

College Basketball

LSU has scored at least 100 points in nine of its first 12 games this season, but have not yet played a rank opponent.

College Basketball

After Duke started the season ranked at No. 7, Kara Lawson (left) has seen her Blue Devils quickly tumble out of the Top 25.

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Rori Harmon (right) scored 26 points against UCLA last Wednesday then had the game-winning shot against South Carolina on Thanksgiving.

College Basketball

With wins against UCLA and South Carolina last week, the Longhorns truly feasted on their competition over Thanksgiving. Plus, questions for the Gamecocks, Audi Crooks’s hot start and more.

Azzi Fudd (right), who dropped 31 points against Michigan last week, could reunite with a former UConn teammate come draft day.

College Basketball

Playing matchmaker for the top picks, plus a breakout performance from Michigan-UConn, an unbelievable game-winning shot and more.

Sarah Strong had 29 points, 13 rebounds, seven assists, five steals and three blocks in UConn’s 100–68 win over Ohio State on Sunday.

College Basketball

The UConn sophomore’s 29-point outburst against Ohio State put the rest of the sport on watch. Plus, looking at the Huskies’ biggest threat and this week’s risers and fallers.

College Basketball

Up tempo. Aggressive press. Hockey-style subs. This isn’t Pat Summitt’s Tennessee anymore.

MLB

More than a decade after Little League stardom at age 13, she’s set to make history again—as the face of the Women’s Pro Baseball League.

Freshman guard Jazzy Davidson took over in USC‘s close win over NC State.

College Basketball

Just how far will the Trojans go without JuJu Watkins? Plus risers and fallers, a standout transfer and other top notes from the first week-plus of the college basketball season.

A few others have dropped 40 points in the WNBA playoffs, but none of those performances were as critical as Maya Moore’s in the 2015 semifinals.

WNBA

What were the best individual performances in the WNBA and women’s college basketball? And how do they compare to Shohei Ohtani’s monster Game 4 in the NLCS?

WNBA

Las Vegas was struggling to stay above .500 in August. But an unbelievable run led by MVP A'ja Wilson and a new approach by coach Becky Hammon put the Aces back on top of the WNBA.

With 34 points and 14 rebounds in Game 3, A’ja Wilson has the Aces just a win away from another WNBA title.

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The Aces’ Big Three of (from left) Chelsea Gray, A’ja Wilson and Jackie Young led the way in Game 2, including a 32-point performance from Young.

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Dana Evans came off the bench to drop 21 points on 5-of-6 three-point shooting for the Aces in Game 1.

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Cathy Engelbert’s comments on league officiating Friday were the first time she acknowledged so clearly the need for change.

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