Carol Stiff was a former college basketball player who was a program planner for ESPN in May of 1994. Stiff needed to fill a women’s game spot with a Big East team on Martin Luther King Day in 1995. She made the phone call that by all means forever changed women’s college basketball.

After the previous NCAA Women’s champions, North Carolina, turned down Stiff’s offer to play the UConn Huskies on MLK day in 1995, her next call was to the University of Tennessee. Coach Pat Summitt was known for being willing to play anyone, anywhere and anytime. Summitt knew the Read More