Last season, guard Kateri Poole went from a young playmaker off the bench to a starter for the Ohio State women’s basketball team. Poole stepped into a role vacated by an injured Madison Greene, who was out before the season even began with a knee injury. A year after an up and down season ended, Poole is an NCAA champion.
The conversation surrounding the NCAA title game on Sunday landed somewhere near the Iowa Hawkeyes’ Caitlin Clark losing despite a historic tournament run, who is and is not allowed to taunt on the court and a historic win for the LSU Tigers basketball program.