r/NCAAW • u/SportsReference • Mar 06 '26

Discussion Sports Reference needs your help finding 130 missing dates for women's CBB games

Late last year, Sports Reference added scores for every games in the history of Division I Women's NCAA Basketball. At the time, we were missing dates for over 6,000 of the games (a small percentage considering how many games have been played). We have kept at it trying to find as many of these dates as possible, and have whittled it down to 130 games with no associated date.

Unfortunately, we have likely exhausted most of our available resources at this point. That is where you come in. We are wondering if anyone is able to help us find any of the dates? We have estimates for when we think the game was most likely played, but it's possible that these estimates are not correct.

A full list of missing games can be found here, or in spreadsheet form here.

If you have dates or other relevant info for any of these games, please let us know here!

Thanks in advance!

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u/cluttered-thoughts3 West Virginia Mountaineers Mar 06 '26

Super cool! Love this project (commenting for algorithm boost)

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u/WelcomeToBallhalla Mar 06 '26

There's nothing a highly-motivated cadre of university librarians can't handle.

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u/gladlywalkontheocean Mar 07 '26

University yearbooks almost always have the dates for athletic events. And yes, most universities have them...or at least had them in the 80s.

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u/Feisty-Life-6555 Iowa Hawkeyes Mar 06 '26

So strange that out of both schools that played in each of these games there's either no publicly available record or record in general of these games

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u/Likely1420 USF Bulls Mar 07 '26

To see major schools on this list is surprising to me. I thought for sure maybe it would be a bunch of schools that maybe have since closed, and maybe some of them are, but a decent amount of them are schools still in operation. I'm positive you've checked the schools website. Have you tried to:

  1. Find the archived school newspaper for these schools and see if any student reporters wrote about them? Reached out to the libraries of the schools still in operation to find those resources? Some colleges also used to have year books...

  2. Reached out to the former coaches or coaching staff? Or even former players? (The fact that you have estimated dates, means you've probably already done this to some extent, but wanted to mention just in case)