In a crowd of 2,388 people at the Tad Smith Coliseum in Oxford, Miss., a section of people not only witness a collegiate women’s basketball game, but cheer on a small piece of the team’s larger puzzle.
A single player looks into the crowd to see those familiar faces. Their cheers and signs inspire a desire to succeed within her.
“One of the greatest stories of Nina Davis is when we played at Ole Miss last year, near where she’s from in Memphis, Tennessee,” head coach Kim Mulkey said. “There must have been 50 to 60 people all in the same colored shirts from her church, all to see Nina.