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Message: [QUOTE="Floridaduck, post: 4545519, member: 9811"] [ATTACH type="full"]84332[/ATTACH] In 1978 I heard that Oregon had an "outstanding" Freshman women's basketball player. We lived in a rural area about 1.5 hours from Eugene and I thought to take my 9 and 12 year old kids to go down and see a game. We sat in the first rows at Mac Court because you could in those days. The game was progressing and I was trying to discern the lineup. All of a sudden a loose ball came bouncing in our direction. It was being chased down by a tall athletic woman wearing #24. Instead of simply saving the ball back inbounds to whoever, she gathered the ball and in mid air turned and fired it down court to a streaking teammate for a layup. After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I started playing close attention to #24, Bev Smith, future All-America and WBB Hall of Famer. So that was the exact moment I got hooked on WBB. Of course we returned again and again throughout her career and beyond. [/QUOTE]