BasketBall Connect

I can honestly say that most people never heard of BC. It is a small town in KY. The first school in the South to allow african americans and whites to attend school together since about 1855. Anyhow, this is where I went to college and learn how to play basketball with confidence.

I had freedom from the start. Given the women's basketball team's abilities before me and my roomate got there, we walked into a situation that made us household name at BC and in cities close by. My roomate and I went to high school together and played in the KY state championship game our senior year and the made it to the KY state final four our junior year. We were simply role players on that team. Too overshadowed by a couple players that were considered superstars. We were recruited together and together we decided to take BC by storm.

So back to the freedom. We didn't know it right off but it became evident real quick. We came in with a strong freshman class with us as the front leaders. We were given the "green light" shoot, meaning no shot was a bad shot. Plays were built around us. But coming from the caliber high school program that we came from, we knew hard work and that was it. We did things with no questions asked. And none of the superstar status ever went to our heads. I can honestly say we probably never noticed until a little later on. We were setting an example by our hardwork and didn't even know it. The upperclassmen didn't like all the attention coach and other people were giving us. My roomate and I both started. Me as point guard which was out of my true position and her as a power forward. Very quickly things started to unfold putting us in a difficult situation as incoming freshman. All of the upperclassmen quit except for one, citing "It's all about the freshman." Leaving 1 junior and 7 freshman. The freedom that my roomate and I had turned into playing point, scoring and leading for me and scoring, rebounding and leading for her. Though we were told the implications of the situation by coach we didn't get it. Who would? How do you go from being a role player on your high school team to a leader as freshmen on your college team?

Once we got pass the drama and stepped up we had a winning season and were bringing fans in the stands. It was great because most of the teams that we played under estimated us. And the upperclassmen that quit thought we were going to fall flat on our faces and we did not. I made second team all KIAC, our team was established and we were ready for whatever after going through a season like this one. By the end of the season we were call the "Magnificant Seven" after the seven freshman that was building BC Women's Basketball from the ground up.