The game was never really close. Talk about a lousy ending. We really did. After the game, reporters asked Jackie Stiles again and again how she felt walking off the court for the last time. Everybody knows by now that Jackie Stiles grew up in that little Kansas town, and she shot 1,000 shots a day, and she dreamed of playing in the Final Four, dreamed of cutting down those championship nets.
Little girls do dream big.
Stiles kept scoring. SMS kept winning. Stiles thought it would go on forever. They all did. When you're in a beautiful dream, you don't think about waking up.