Mel Greenberg marks 50 years since starting women’s basketball poll

Ana Maria Rus

When Mel Greenberg’s boss approached him a half century ago about starting the women’s basketball poll, he balked. The Philadelphia Inquirer sports writer didn’t think he’d be able to pull together the information needed to deliver a legitimate poll. Women’s games were almost never aired on national television in 1976 and the internet wouldn’t come along for another few decades, making scores and other statistics challenging to gather. But as generations of sports fans now know, Greenberg found

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