Marsha Sharp looked in her closet for any shade of orange she could find.
The blazer wasn’t quite the right color — more of an apricot than a bright Tennessee orange — but Sharp put it on anyway.
The hall-of-fame Texas Tech Lady Raiders basketball coach just simply wanted to honor her friend, Pat Summit, who had died only hours early Tuesday at the age of 64..
Summitt, the winningest coach in Division I college basketball history, lifted the women’s game to national prominence during her 38-year career at Tennessee. Her death, five years and two months after being diagnosed with early onset dementia, Alzheimer’s type, resulted in an outpouring of reactions from the president to people who never played for Summitt.