To put the next hour into perspective, for those too young (or perhaps uninterested) to remember the powerhouse USC women’s basketball teams of the mid-1980s, the documentary Women of Troy begins with a hypothetical: What if Michael Jordan, after putting up 63 points against the Larry Bird–led Celtics, got hurt? What if, at age 23, his playing career was over? “That’s Cheryl Miller,” Doris Burke, the veteran NBA broadcaster, explains in the film.
The story of how Miller, still hailed as the greatest women’s basketball player ever (especially by her younger brother, Reggie), challenged the establishment and took college basketball by storm has been told plenty of times.