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The Villanova women’s basketball team has never been ranked this highly by the Associated Press. They’ve never had a scorer this prolific. They’ve never hosted NCAA Tournament games, either.
We’ll know either in a couple of weeks – or a couple of days, if things go terribly wrong – whether this fascinating season will include an unprecedented trip to a Final Four. But until then, here are 20 things to know about Villanova’s women’s hoops team.The Wildcats need two wins to break the school record held by the 1981-82 squad, which went 29-4 and advanced to the AIAW Final Four - the predecessor to the NCAA Tournament.
has used the same starting five in all 34 games – Maddie Burke, Christina Dalce, Brooke Mullin, Lucy Olsen and Maddy Siegrist., hails from Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Her father, George, played at Marist and was a freshman in 1987-88 when former NBA player Rik Smits was a senior. Brooke Mullin, who went to Neshaminy and averages 26 minutes, is a niece of former NBA star Chris Mullin. Uncle Chris and Smits played three years together with the Pacers .Siegrist being selected by Washington with the No. 4 overall pickMaddy Siegrist enters the NCAA Tournament leading the nation in scoring over Iowa star Caitlin Clark and Drexel’s Keishana Washington.
Sophomore Christina Dalce, a 6-2 forward, is ninth in the nation in overall blocked shots. Her 76 swats shattered the previous school record of 65 by Lisa Ortlp 44 years ago.
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