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Delta State’s women’s basketball legacy endures even as national spotlight has faded

By ALANIS THAMESYahoo Entertainment

It was a 4 p. m. tipoff against Holmes Community College — announced only in the local paper in rural Cleveland, Mississippi.

Just a handful of curious women's basketball fans with no clue what this team led by a former high school coach named Margaret Wade co…

CLEVELAND, Miss. (AP) A sparse crowd drifted into Walter Sillers Coliseum for Delta States first womens basketball game in 1973. It was a 4 p.

m. tipoff against Holmes Community College announced onl…