Two days before, Brophy Prep wins its first state basketball title, its former coach and athletic director lost his battle with cancer.

Duke was not yet a national power, and that season Dawkins was part of a freshman class that included Mark Alarie and Jay Bilas that soon would help turn Duke into a perennial power.

Alarie scored a career-best 45 points against Columbia to set the Ivy League single-game mark. In that game, she shot 20-of-28 from the field, collected 14 rebounds and had four blocked shots in ...