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Then the phone rang, and Delaney-Smith was on call again—for a team far away from Cambridge, whose roster was full of collegiate All-Americans and future WNBA All-Stars...
Under Delaney-Smith’s guidance, the USA beat its opponents by an average of 43.1 points per game and put together a 30-0 run in the win over South Africa. It was an entirely dominant performance for a team whose roster was finalized just nine days before its first game in Turkey on Aug. 10. Delaney-Smith, Chapman, and Inglese had the unenviable task of paring down the squad during tryouts and then fashioning a starting lineup out of 12 superstars...
...taller than Danley and Zoller, respectively. That height is important in a league that boasts 6’10 Yale center Dominick Martin and 7’0 Harvard center Brian Cusworth. The Quakers currently have no true centers, or any player above 6’8 on their roster, making those matchups with the Crimson and the Bulldogs potentially tenuous...
It’s usually enough to send at least a few wide-eyed 18-year-olds packing. But this season, for the first time in recent memory, every freshman who started the preseason was still on the roster come opening kickoff...
...such behavior would not be tolerated, no exceptions, not even for Bryant, arguably the team’s most talented defensive lineman heading into the off-season. It was a classic dose of tough love, and one that figured to hurt Murphy and the 100 other guys on the roster, too. But Murphy didn’t relent. Going back on his word would have done more damage to his tough-guy image than handing down a weaker sentence and seeing it through.“Sometimes they think I’m stubborn,” Murphy said...