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Message: [QUOTE="LETTERL, post: 3872546, member: 4687"] I was interested to see three Immaculata teams make the list. The stories of that little college and its fervent followers who included nuns beating metal buckets with spoons are legendary. And unbeknownst to me at the time, in 1987, I met Cathy Rush, their legendary head coach. In 1987, the East Regional of the NCAAT was held in Fayetteville, NC. NC State had a strong team that year, and advanced to the Sweet 16, where it would face Sue Wicks and Rutgers, coached at the time by Theresa Grentz (from the Immaculata dynasty days). James Madison and defending NCAAT champion Texas would meet in the other game.) Being an hour from Raleigh, I made the trip to Fayetteville to root on the Wolfpack Women. Texas easily dispatched James Madison in the first game. Before the NC State/Rutgers game, an older woman sat down next to me, and during the halftime, the woman stated that she was interested that I was so loud and vocal in cheering on my team...and we started talking about women's basketball. The woman, who did not give her name, stated that she coached the Rutgers coach when Grentz played in college. Rutgers beat NC State that day, ending our season. I went back to Raleigh, deflated but did make the trip back to Fayetteville two days later to watch the Final between Rutgers and Texas. Again, I was sitting next to the older woman, and we both rooted on Rutgers, which gave a good challenge but ultimately fell short and Texas advanced to the Final Four. Fast forward 8 years. In 1995, I was eating breakfast in a restaurant and reading USA Today, which did an article on the 20th anniversary of the magical run of the Immaculata College teams. I actually dropped a fork when I saw a picture that accompanied the article, with the coach talking to her team. It was the woman who had sat next to me at the East Regional back in 1987 -- Cathy Rush. I had no idea back in 1987 that the woman I so casually talked with on two separate days was, at one time, part of WCBB royalty. One final note on this story: the last movie I actually saw in a theatre was "The Mighty Macs", which detailed the story of the Immaculata dynasty. Both Theresa Grentz and Cathy Rush had cameos in the movie. [/QUOTE]

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