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I've always thought Nykesha gets less credit than she deserves in discussions of the all time great UConn players.  I know, she is hardly forgotten but she played at the beginning of Uconn's  emergence as a powerhouse program and most of the greats followed her.

I lived in West Hartford at the time and knew of her Bloomfield High days just from reading about her in the Hartford paper. She was a great shooter at UConn - averaged more than 50 % FG percentage for her career. She was smooth and quick and aggressive, and could light an opponent up. She was Maya light, but not that light. She is still 7th on the all time scoring list. Non-Conn fans would mostly remember her for breaking Bascom's scoring record at a Villanova game while in a boot. She was one point shy and her injury ended her college career so Geno and his good bud Harry Perretta, the Villanova coach, agreed to give Nykesha an uncontested layup to start the game and give Harry's team an uncontested layup so the game really started at 2-2.  The press screamed about the integrity of the game but I was ok with it, as was Bascom and the Big East Commissioner.
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