Rhyne Howard had her heart set on playing in the 2018 McDonald’s All-American Game.
When the rosters for the contest matching the best senior high school girls’ basketball players in America were announced last January, there were three players from Howard’s home state of Tennessee selected.
Howard was not one of them.
“I feel like I should have been named a McDonald’s All-American,” Howard, now a University of Kentucky freshman, said last week. “But (being overlooked) just kind of lit the fire.”