Dickens Scratching Tip of Talent Iceberg

Boston College had just lost to Georgia Tech when head coach Joanna Bernabei-McNamee had a routine coach-player meeting with Makayla Dickens. The freshman point guard was coming off of a 15-point performance, but the Yellow Jackets out-rebounded the Eagles to a margin of just under 2-1. A five-point loss hurt, but the 18 second chance points scored against BC told a pointed story. So the coach delivered a simple message to her rookie guard.

"We talked after Georgia Tech and (we) had gotten really out-rebounded," she said. "We watched some film, and I showed (Dickens) how she wasn't blocking out and how she wasn't crashing boards. I told her that we could go over film all day, but she had to…