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Message: [QUOTE="dabears17, post: 4292479, member: 10508"] I've always admired Dawn Staley since the 1996 Olympics, especially when she coached at Temple while still playing in the WNBA. In 2015 my daughter and I ran into a relative of Dawn's at LAX the weekend before the Final Four coming back from a basketball tournament my 9 year old daughter played in. We had plane tickets and hotel reservations for Tampa, but decided my daughter couldn't miss two days of school for that Final Four because she had missed several days of school a week or two before. We took our daughter to the 2008 Final Four in Tampa. The relative saw my daughter in her basketball uniform at the airport and struck up a conversation. When my daughter mentioned we were likely going to Final Four, the relative gave me her business card and told me to call her if we went, and said she'd introduce my daughter to Dawn. Based upon Graves record the past two years I'm less confident than I was in 2020 they would of won, but I think it's highly likely they would of made the Final Four. I saw them beat Stanford in person late February 2020 and it felt like they beat Stanford by a lot more than 8 points. Oregon was dominant in the Pac-12 tournament and on a hot streak. Sabrina is a better Kelsey Plum and Kelsey got Washington to the Final Four in 2016. [/QUOTE]