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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2012
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Brittney Griner is the most happy-go-lucky, fun, tender, soft kid you'll ever meet in a big body. And just as all in us, we make mistakes and she's never wavered from who she is. She's the most humble, non-arrogant athlete that has the credentials she has that I've ever coached."
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Baylor coach Kum Mulkey at Women's big 12 Media Day responding to a question about Griner's personal growth as a player
FACT OF THE DAY
Gritter will be the only college athlete on the USA Basketball Women's National Team at the 2012 Olympics in London.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Who was the first woman to dunk in the WNBA?
A: Lisa Leslie on July 12, 2002 for the Los Angeles Sparks
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THE MORNING BREW Baylor's Griner deserves our attention
I know most people were expecting a brew about Kansas-Missouri and the history of the rivalry or something of
that nature.
But before that battle there's a pretty good appetizer on tonight when the Kansas women's basketball team takes on No. 1 undefeated Baylor.
The Jayhawks don't have much of chance in this game, but it's worth your time to watch for one reason.
The Lady Bears might have the most dominant player in women's basketball history on their side. Brittney Griner continues to be one of the most fascinating basketball players of our generation.
I've heard comparisons to Lew Alcindor at UCLA in the late 1960's. That's the same man who had got the dunk outlawed in college basketball.
This season, Griner has once again been a dominant force with 22.9 points, 9.8 rebounds and 5.4 blocks per game. She continues to be the obvious frontrunner for every major women's basketball award and rightfully so.
Griner dominates the game at both ends of the floor, getting any shot she wants over the smaller defenders and swatting every shot with her 7-foot-3 wingspan.
Kansas coach Bonnie Henrickson has said throughout the year that the only way to beat Griner is to make shots, but even then she can get to a lot of the basketballs on the perimeter. I asked Henrickson yesterday about who she could compare to Griner.
She threw out a couple names.
Connecticut's Kara Wolters who played for the Huskies between 1993 and 1997 was one of them. At 6-foot-7, Wolters is close in height to Griner, but didn't play with the
same length. She was part of the 1995 team that went undefeated in all 35 games it played that season.
Georgeann Wells, another 6-foot-7 center,
became the first woman to register a dunk in
a NCAA women's basketball game on Dec.
21, 1984.
Or somebody, even before Henrickson's playing days, named Anne Donavon who at 6-foot-8 dominated the women's basketball at Old Dominion in the early '80s, including winning the first women's Naismith College Player of the Year in 1983.
"I love Anne Donavon," Henrickson said.
"But she can't do what Brittney Griner can do."
Nobody has ever done what Brittney Griner has done. She's revolutionized the women's college game by being the first consistent dunker as well as a spectacular athlete.
But even though her defense is probably her most crucial constitution to the Lady Bears' success this season, most people are fascinated by a woman dunking a basketball.
There been other womens dunkers. The afoefore mentioned Wells, Sylvia Fowles and
Candace Parker just to name a few.
But unlike those players, Griner dunks with authority, and doesn't just have one-handed slams that barely make it over the rim.
Griner is a once-in-a-lifetime player. There are very few times in life when you can watch the most dominant athlete in a certain sport.
A part of her repertoire includes 360 degree jams, slams off the backboard and dunks from almost underneath the basket.
Think of tonight's game like watching Muhammad Ali in his prime or Tiger Woods in the early 2000s. Those athletes could not be stopped.
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And neither can Griner
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