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UNC's Breland Back at Practice as She Continues Cancer Battle

Cancer has done a number on Jessica Breland. It's taken away a year of basketball. It made her sweat so much at night that she had to change her clothes two or three times. It's even gotten into her dreams, and, for a time, took away her composure. But for all that has been taken from the North Carolina senior, the...

Kansas City: Nebraska Looking to Complete Turnaround

At this time last year, Nebraska was in the WNIT. And for not very long, either, as a second-round loss ended a disappointing 15-16 season. How far they've come. Nebraska became just the second team to earn a No. 1 seed the year after not making the NCAA tournament when its 30-1 record landed it the top spot in the...

It's Been Rough Sledding in Big 12, SEC

Let's play a round of that popular party game, "Would you rather...?"Would you rather be Connecticut and Stanford, running through conference opponents like hot knives through butter?Or would you rather be Baylor and Texas A&M and Oklahoma ... or Georgia and Tennessee and LSU, playing through the gauntlet of familiar...

Marissa Kastanek Relishes Lasting Link to Kay Yow

In their last conversation, Kay Yow and Marissa Kastanek talked as much about basketball as they did about life.Perhaps the ratio should have been different given that Yow, the legendary former North Carolina State women's basketball coach, was battling breast cancer.Wolfpack basketball was at the essence of Kay Yow's...

Year of Milestones On and Off Court in Women's Basketball

Coming at the end of a decade in which basketball cemented its place as the preeminent women's team sport, 2009 was a year of milestones and marking points. From births to deaths, to titles and retirements, it was an important year for a game in which the talent is as good as ever, but the game's growth on a whole has...

Background on kay yow

Sandra Kay Yow (March 14, 1942 – January 24, 2009) was an American basketball coach. She was the head coach of the NC State Wolfpack women's basketball team from 1975 to 2009. A member of the Naismith Hall of Fame, she had more than 700 career wins.

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