Molly Bent was never supposed to come to UConn.
Despite being the star player at Tabor Academy in Marion, Mass., Bent only garnered interest from a few Ivy League schools along with a handful of lower-tier Division I programs. Bent herself thought it was impossible.
"I would never be able to go there," she told the Cape Cod Times in 2014.
In her mind, it was never about talent. She would just never have the opportunity to showcase it to the Husky staff. That changed when she caught the eye of one of the assistants at an AAU Tournament.