{"id":69808,"date":"2026-03-24T04:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/molly-miller-pretty-privilege-and-womens-basketballs-beauty-trap\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:57:16","slug":"molly-miller-pretty-privilege-and-womens-basketballs-beauty-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/molly-miller-pretty-privilege-and-womens-basketballs-beauty-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Miller, \u2018pretty privilege\u2019 and women\u2019s basketball\u2019s beauty trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona State\u2019s head coach has turned around a losing program. Unsurprisingly, much of the discourse on the internet was not based on her leadership skills<\/p>\n<p>In March 2025, the Arizona State women\u2019s basketball team were looking for a coach who could end a drought that had seen them go without a NCAA Tournament appearance \u2013 or even a winning season \u2013 since 2019-20.<\/p>\n<p>The choice was Molly Miller, a proven and successful head coach at Grand Canyon. Miller had led the Lopes to their first NCAA Tournament appearance and a 32\u20133 record in her final season with the team \u2013 a benchmark for the program and an important accomplishment within the broader scope of college basketball. She soon turned around Arizona State, leading them to a 24-11 record and a first appearance at the NCAA Tournament in six years. (Their season ended in the First Four.)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/24\/molly-miller-arizona-state-university-basketball\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona State\u2019s head coach has turned around a losing program. Unsurprisingly, much of the discourse on the internet was not based on her leadership skills In March 2025, the Arizona State women\u2019s basketball team were looking for a coach who could end a drought that had seen them go without a NCAA Tournament appearance \u2013 &#8230; <a title=\"Molly Miller, \u2018pretty privilege\u2019 and women\u2019s basketball\u2019s beauty trap\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/molly-miller-pretty-privilege-and-womens-basketballs-beauty-trap\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Molly Miller, \u2018pretty privilege\u2019 and women\u2019s basketball\u2019s beauty trap\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}