Mississippis Season is Done. Coach Yo Says the Rebels are Just Warming Up.
The New York Times Yolett McPhee-McCuin, buoyed by her confidence, represents a new wave of coaching in womens college basketball. Were gliding now, she said of her Rebels.
SEATTLE Becoming a college basketball contender, the kind of team with enough enduring quality that it regularly competes for national titles, involves a series of incremental steps.
Win a round one year. Maybe a monumental upset garners two wins the next. Plateau for a little while. Then, with luck, an Elite Eight, a Final Four, or even, ahem, a championship.
Mississippi and its enigmatic, bundle-of-positivity coach, Yolett McPhee-McCuin, better known as Coach Yo, confronted that reality on Friday.
The lights got bright, Coach Yo said of her side after its 72-62 loss to a high-powered Louisville team that put hers in a headlock early on and never let up. Mississippis coach spoke of her players being a bit overwhelmed by the moment: the glittering arena, the 10,000 fans and the March Madness national television audience for the round of 16. But she made a vow: Well get used to it.
