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Message: [QUOTE="triaddukefan, post: 3533905, member: 378"] A good read...... though filled with tragedy and sadness. I still remember it as if it had happened yesterday. I've never felt such pain and anguish for a non-Duke WCBB player as I did watching that Regional Final. [URL='https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28968744/denied-doorstep-final-four-two-shots-never-forget']Denied on the doorstep of the Final Four: Two shots she'll never forget[/URL] A lil snippet TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- This is where Dee Dee Jernigan gets nervous. She's inside the lane, frozen where the rim and backboard meet, staring up at the basket. It doesn't matter that she hasn't been on a court in months or played in a game in years, this moment doesn't get any easier. Jernigan still can't shoot a layup, even in an empty, quiet gym, without thinking about [I]that night[/I]. As soon as the buzzer sounded that Monday night in 2010, Jernigan's life changed forever. Her college career ended in the most public, humiliating way, and basketball, the one constant, no longer offered any respite. Instead, it was more grief for someone who still hadn't mourned the death of her mother four years earlier and had nowhere to turn for support. When she needed someone -- anyone -- no one was there. No one on her team talked to her. [/QUOTE]