http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/sports/ncaabasketball/18yow.html

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"A Team Gains Strength From Its Weakened Coach RALEIGH, N.C., March 17 — Already, it was going to be an arduous week for Kay Yow, the Hall of Fame women’s basketball coach at North Carolina State: Blood work for a tumor cell count on Monday. Chemotherapy for Stage 4 breast cancer on Wednesday. An opening-round game in the N.C.A.A. tournament on Sunday. Yow with her players as the pairings for the N.C.A.A. tournament were announced last Monday. North Carolina State players will wear sneakers honoring Yow. Then her cellphone rang at 10:40 Monday morning. The North Carolina State fight song played jauntily as the ring tone, but the call had nothing to do with basketball. Yow put her hand to her mouth and turned to a visitor in her living room. “My daddy passed away,” she said."

Not married, just lives for NCSU bball. Hopefully the chicks can do something on the court for her because it doesn't sound like she will be here long.

3/18/2007 10:28:59 AM

wow, she is going through hell

[Edited on March 18, 2007 at 11:36 AM. Reason : i really really want to see the women at least make it to the final four, they could]

3/18/2007 11:35:54 AM

nmq

[Edited on March 18, 2007 at 12:15 PM. Reason : bnh]

3/18/2007 12:14:37 PM

wow


please to win it all for Coach Yow.

3/18/2007 12:23:23 PM

Now I feel like shit for not going to the game

3/18/2007 12:35:31 PM

the worst part is theres no one there

3/18/2007 12:36:04 PM

3/18/2007 12:43:19 PM

Quote :

"Now I feel like shit for not going to the game"

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" If the games were not carried on television or streaming video, she listened on the radio, taking pages of notes. She grew impatient when the announcers read the statistics haphazardly or forgot to mention offensive rebounds. During the holiday break, the student radio station failed to broadcast the start of two games, until Yow started making phone calls. “They were playing that punk music,” she said. “Twice I had to go sort of crazy.”"

WKNC got owned by Yow

[Edited on March 18, 2007 at 1:13 PM. Reason : .]

3/18/2007 1:03:41 PM

Double post for the great quote it ends with

“I want you to remember to have great strength and have great courage. There can always be a little bit of fear or nervousness, but courage overcomes that. Your desire to win, to be the best you can be, becomes greater than anything you fear. That’s courage. That’s how you do it.”
-Kay Yow

3/18/2007 1:16:41 PM

Well, we've made it to the second round, so everyone's got another chance to show their support of Coach Yow.

3/18/2007 2:16:23 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/recap?gameId=274000020

Quote :

" And she got even more focused when she heard something else: a smattering of boos coming from the Robert Morris fans as the Hall of Fame coach was introduced."

3/18/2007 5:16:16 PM

unacceptable behavior.

3/18/2007 5:19:42 PM

make up for it by having the lower student session all around RBC sold out for Tuesday nights game...theyll need your support!!

3/19/2007 2:52:31 AM

^^^I hope they were just clueless to the situation...I cant believe anyone would be that classless.

I wasnt in town Sunday, but Im going to have to make the effort to get out there Tuesday, although Im a little annoyed that the new start time is going to give us a decent chunk of overlap with the mens game. I guess I need to find that small radio.

3/19/2007 3:15:00 AM

Quote :

"And she got even more focused when she heard something else: a smattering of boos coming from the Robert Morris fans as the Hall of Fame coach was introduced.""

3/19/2007 3:48:25 AM

I don't know how women's ncaa scheduling works, but this could be Yow's last game in Raleigh. If you can go, you should.

It's 16$ at 7pm at RBC on Tuesday (this actually gets you two games -- you can watch that Duke she-beast beat up on someone at 5pm).

Women's basketball is awful, but you gotta respect someone who gave most of her life to wolfpack basketball.

3/19/2007 5:43:54 PM

in the print version of this article there was a WONDERFUL picture of coach yow crouched over in a lazy boy poring over some sort of paper in what i imagine is some sort of cancer center, with a birthday balloon next to her, hooked up to some sort of machine.

[Edited on March 19, 2007 at 5:57 PM. Reason : .]

3/19/2007 5:56:43 PM

Ok from the "conversation" on the game article this was posted.


http://myespn.go.com/conversation/story?id=2803364§ion=ncw

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"hurdles107 (3/19/2007 at 2:51 AM) As part of the Colonial fans in attendance at the game I would like to clear up the misunderstanding about the smattering of boos for it was not a classless act, but rather an act of unawareness. Once the couple of uninformed fans learned of the situation they quickly joined the rest of us in the ovation for coach Yow. "

3/19/2007 6:12:48 PM

<3 Kay Yow

“I want you to remember to have great strength and have great courage. There can always be a little bit of fear or nervousness, but courage overcomes that. Your desire to win, to be the best you can be, becomes greater than anything you fear. That’s courage. That’s how you do it.”
-Kay Yow

That should be remembered along with ANY of the Jimmy V quotes we know off the tops of our heads.

3/19/2007 11:26:43 PM

She was awarded with the 2007 Naismith Award today:
http://www.newsobserver.com/122/story/558747.html

3/29/2007 9:16:57 PM