Immaculata, UConn, and Tennessee
UPDATE: March 26, 2008:
In case you missed the segment on Immaculata from Sunday's SportsCenter, here it is:
This Saturday, March 22, ESPN's "family of networks" will begin showcasing the 2008 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship. On Sunday, March 23, ESPN shows will feature three news segments discussing women's college basketball's past, present and future.
Here's the press release:
Sunday’s Outside the Lines (8:30 a.m. CDT on ESPN; 11am CDT on ESPNEWS) will feature a pair of segments focusing on NCAA women’s basketball -- a look at the relationship between Tennessee coach Pat Summitt and Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma, and an examination of recruiting intensity, while SportsCenter’s featured piece will look back at the Immaculata University “Mighty Macs.”
Outside the Lines: Reporter Shelley Smith’s piece shows how the relationship between Auriemma and Summitt, which resulted in the schools not playing this season, began 13 years ago when the mighty Lady Vols visited then-upstart UConn. “I remember coming off of warm-ups and Tennessee was on our half of the court,” then-UConn center Rebecca Lobo says. “We asked them to move and they wouldn’t move, and it just fired some of our players up.”
Auriemma and Summitt each declined on-air interview requests for this piece.
Reporter Julie Foudy’s piece describes how college coaches and programs attempt to sign the best recruiting classes, and addresses the aspects of negative recruiting and how much of a factor perceived sexual orientation is in the recruiting process.
SportsCenter’s featured piece 11 p.m., Sunday, March 23, will focus on the Immaculata University “Mighty Macs” who won the first three regionally bracketed women’s national basketball titles. Led by 23-year-old coach Cathy Rush, the tiny Catholic women’s school in Malvern, Pa. (about 25 miles outside of Philadelphia), won its first championship -- the first national collegiate tournament for women ever played -- in 1972.
Excerpts from the SportsCenter Piece:
“It was a miracle that we were all here at the same time, and that timing being early 70s -- pre-scholarships and big-money budgets. It was the only time a team like Immaculata could have won the national tournament.” -- Cathy Rush, Immaculata head coach 1970-1977 (149-15 career coaching record)
“It was like watching Tennessee and Connecticut today. The best of the best, that’s what we were. The difference was people were seeing something like that for the first time. They hadn’t seen it before.” -- Marianne (Crawford) Stanley, Immaculata guard 1972-1976
In case you missed the segment on Immaculata from Sunday's SportsCenter, here it is:
This Saturday, March 22, ESPN's "family of networks" will begin showcasing the 2008 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship. On Sunday, March 23, ESPN shows will feature three news segments discussing women's college basketball's past, present and future.
Here's the press release:
Sunday’s Outside the Lines (8:30 a.m. CDT on ESPN; 11am CDT on ESPNEWS) will feature a pair of segments focusing on NCAA women’s basketball -- a look at the relationship between Tennessee coach Pat Summitt and Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma, and an examination of recruiting intensity, while SportsCenter’s featured piece will look back at the Immaculata University “Mighty Macs.”
Outside the Lines: Reporter Shelley Smith’s piece shows how the relationship between Auriemma and Summitt, which resulted in the schools not playing this season, began 13 years ago when the mighty Lady Vols visited then-upstart UConn. “I remember coming off of warm-ups and Tennessee was on our half of the court,” then-UConn center Rebecca Lobo says. “We asked them to move and they wouldn’t move, and it just fired some of our players up.”
Auriemma and Summitt each declined on-air interview requests for this piece.
Reporter Julie Foudy’s piece describes how college coaches and programs attempt to sign the best recruiting classes, and addresses the aspects of negative recruiting and how much of a factor perceived sexual orientation is in the recruiting process.
SportsCenter’s featured piece 11 p.m., Sunday, March 23, will focus on the Immaculata University “Mighty Macs” who won the first three regionally bracketed women’s national basketball titles. Led by 23-year-old coach Cathy Rush, the tiny Catholic women’s school in Malvern, Pa. (about 25 miles outside of Philadelphia), won its first championship -- the first national collegiate tournament for women ever played -- in 1972.
Excerpts from the SportsCenter Piece:
“It was a miracle that we were all here at the same time, and that timing being early 70s -- pre-scholarships and big-money budgets. It was the only time a team like Immaculata could have won the national tournament.” -- Cathy Rush, Immaculata head coach 1970-1977 (149-15 career coaching record)
“It was like watching Tennessee and Connecticut today. The best of the best, that’s what we were. The difference was people were seeing something like that for the first time. They hadn’t seen it before.” -- Marianne (Crawford) Stanley, Immaculata guard 1972-1976
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