Need the sweep
Time for women to leave legacy

Twenty wins in collegiate basketball is often seen as the magic number in terms of getting recognized as a possible at-large contender.

Call it a minor miracle, but both the men’s and women’s basketball teams have managed to post 20-win seasons. It’s the first 20-win season in the history of women’s basketball at TCU.

The women have been one of the nation’s biggest surprises this season, picking up their first-ever conference championship.
To put it lightly, it’s been a fairy tale season to this point.

It was a season that included record-breaking crowds against top-ranked Tennessee Nov. 27 and Saturday’s game against Southern Methodist University.

It was a season that included an 11-game winning streak, the longest in the program’s history. It was a season that saw the Frogs pick up votes in the Associated Press Top 25 poll for the first time.

For the first time in what seemed like decades, the women managed to grab a victory from the jaws of SMU. They were 0-5 all-time against Hawaii before stealing a win on the road, Jan. 5.

At 21-7 and 13-3 as champions of the Western Athletic Conference, the women open the conference tournament today as the No. 1 seed against San Jose State.

While the possibility of an at-large bid is still quite favorable, the only way to really cap off this tale would be to sweep through the WAC Tournament and gain the automatic bid.

For seniors Jill Sutton, Amy Porter, Sally Spencer and Karen Clayton, who came to TCU to play basketball in 1997 for a program that had won a total of 40 games in seven seasons, it’s time to leave their legacy.

It’s time to leave a legacy as the first-ever WAC Champions representing TCU’s newly resurgent women’s basketball program. It’s time to punch your ticket for the Dance.

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