Thanks, wire chief. It won't make the hard copy like that, I bet: the Times sports page doesn't "waste" ink on women's sports (excepting your fav, tennis, when Americans are winning). I like this:
Walker stepped up. She had the best game of her young career and for the first time Auriemma thought she looked like the top player he had recruited.
"When you see how she played today, it's the look she had out there, it's where I belong," he said. "This is what I came here to do."