Rutgers women get the ’skinny’ on Auburn star DeWanna Bonner.

Here comes college basketball’s most mysterious player, ready to make you look silly.  She’s flying down the court, all elbows and knees, burning calories and shattering stereotypes one basket at a time. Nothing about Auburn’s DeWanna Bonner makes sense. Lanky and lean, spindly and stringy, the 6-4 broomstick has defied logic for the better part [...]

Auburn’s Bonner shines in Tournament time.

“Bonner,” said authoritative Tennessee coach Pat Summitt, “is a special player.” And to prove it, Bonner scored 61 points on the Lady Vols in two games this year. Bonner was voted the Southeastern Conference Most Valuable Player and is being talked about as a top-five pick in the next WNBA draft. And she’s doing it [...]

With Boddie at the helm, Auburn ready for NCAAs.

Auburn coach Nell Fortner tries not to think about what could have been last season. The Tigers were cruising along in the first half of the year, winning 10 of their first 11 games, and then point guard Whitney Boddie was ruled academically ineligible. They were never the same afterward, and finished the year with [...]

An Auburn sweep: Bonner, Fortner take player and coach award on AP All-SEC women’s team.

With Candace Parker and Sylvia Fowles out of the way, DeWanna Bonner finally got her chance to shine. Auburn’s versatile star was a unanimous choice as player of the year on The Associated Press All-Southeastern Conference team released Tuesday, her reward for leading the Tigers to their first league championship in 20 years and a [...]

Auburn’s Boddie darts, dishes but doesn’t shoot 3.

The 5-foot-7 Boddie has still played a huge role in the Tigers’ 20-0 start and rise up the rankings after missing much of last season because of academics. Quick enough to scoot past defenders to the basket, she’s a double-digit scorer, the Southeastern Conference’s assist leader and Auburn’s sparkplug. “She is quick with and without [...]

Auburn women celebrate victory over Tennessee, record-breaking crowd, 20 straight wins.

DeWanna Bonner almost missed the best game of her career and one of the biggest games in Auburn women’s basketball history because of a record-setting crowd that arrived early to cheer one of the hottest teams in the nation.“I couldn’t even find a parking spot,” Bonner said of her journey to Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum that started [...]

Lady Vols aim to ruin Auburn’s unbeaten streak.

“It is a really big conference game, and we are looking forward to playing it,” Auburn coach Nell Fortner said. “Tennessee is a storied women’s basketball program, and I have the utmost respect for the program’s success and for (UT coach) Pat Summit.”Despite that respect, this season it’s Auburn that looks like the SEC juggernaut, [...]

Auburn’s Bonner not eating up hype.

DeWanna Bonner still looks a lot like the rail-thin player who arrived at Auburn four seasons ago. “That’s just her build,” Auburn coach Nell Fortner said Wednesday at SEC Media Days. “She eats like a horse.” The change has taken place in her game. She’s been an All-SEC first-team honoree the past two seasons. With [...]