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[QUOTE="Ozimoto, post: 4507326, member: 6677"]
My women's basketball journey started when I was in high school in the late 1970's.  Went to a small co-ed Catholic high school in Cumberland, Maryland.  Like other Catholic schools, basketball, both boys and girls, was big.  I had a number of friends (one I had a crush on) on the girls' team and went to their games often.  Several of them went on to have fairly decent college careers at the DII level and one of them was recruited by Immaculata, a women's powerhouse at the time.  Once the women's game started to get TV airplay it was a natural progression to start watching the games when the were available.  Saw a lot of games with Tennessee, LA Tech, UVA, Texas and Stanford in those early years of TV coverage.  And then there was this team from Connecticut with the demonstrative Italian guy who was starting to upset the apple cart of the "blue bloods" of the time.  I've always had a soft spot for the underdog (which the Huskies were at the time) and I liked the way the way they got under Tennessee's skin (some of Pat Summitt's facial expressions were priceless during games).  I've been hooked ever since, even though the Huskies haven't been underdogs for quite some time.
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