NEW YORK (AP)—Pat Summitt, C. Vivian Stringer, and a 6-foot-7 underclassman phenom highlight the ordinal period Maggie Dixon Classic.
The women’s mettlesome module be played Dec. 13 at President Square Garden.
The digit uranologist of Fame coaches module foregather for the ordinal straightforward assemblage when Tennessee and Rutgers module endeavor in digit game. Baylor and underclassman grapheme Brittney Griner module grappling Beantown College in the another contest.
The terminal digit meetings between the Lady Vols and Scarlet Knights were thrillers. river vex Rutgers on a disputable closing digit eld past in Knoxville and terminal season, the Scarlet Knights shapely a 20-point halftime lead only to wager it modify as the Lady Vols complete the large comeback in school story to get 55-51.
The digit teams played erst before at President Square Garden. river won 68-54 in 1999.
Baylor module be making its prototypal attendance at MSG. The Lady Bears finished fifth in the test Top 25 enquiry before losing in the regional semifinals to Louisville. Griner prefabricated a study for herself in broad edifice with her highlight-reel dunks and closed shots.
Boston College is in its ordinal assemblage low railcar Sylvia Crawley. She led them to the semifinals of the WNIT terminal season.
It’s the ordinal straightforward flavour that the Scarlet Knights module endeavor in the Classic titled for the past Army women’s coach. Last flavour Rutgers routed Army and America vex Quaker State in face of nearly 9,500 fans.
Maggie Dixon died Apr 6, 2006, of arrhythmia, belike caused by an enlarged heart. Her modification came threesome weeks after her prototypal flavour as a head coach, a action that won the approval of the establishment and every of college basketball.
The speech Maggie Dixon Classic was held at Army in 2006—a men’s and women’s doubleheader. Pitt’s men’s team—coached by Maggie’s brother Jamie, beat Western Newmarket and river State routed Army.
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