When Players Need You Most!!
University of Washington women's basketball Head Coach Mike Neighbors puts together another amazing piece!! Coach Neighb's coached Meegs in college at the University of Tulsa!!
Here's a quick snippet to get you interested....
"Have you ever wondered if you were supposed to be a coach?
Sacramento, California… ARCO Arena… March 29th, 2010… NCAA Elite 8… Stanford (34-1) vs. Xavier (30-3)Winner advances to the Final Four… Stanford had won their first three tourney games by a combined 98 points… Xavier attempting to be first non-BCS school to advance to Final Four in 11 years…
20.6 seconds to play… 51-51 tie game… Xavier ball on the side coming out of a timeout… Shot clock is off… Ball inbounded safely… All-American Amber Harris cuts off a high cross screen and draws a double team from Stanford All–Americans, Nneka Ogwumike and Kayla Pedersen… Harris finds a wide open Dee Dee Jernigan behind the defense… Amber fires a bullet pass to block… Dee Dee can’t convert the wide open two footer… Harris alertly scrambles for the rebound which she secures… As she dribbles to get space, she finds Dee Dee again even more open and closer to bucket than the first time with 9.5 to play...she misses again… and this time Stanford’s Kayla Pedersen re-bounds…
This was the moment I knew I was supposed to be a coach.
If you don’t remember the play or have never seen it, check out the below YouTube clip to hear Stuart Scott’s ESPN call of the action and also what followed in the final 4.4 seconds before you read on."
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