WSU's Ethridge, Moscow's Lloyd were national champions at Texas

Forty years later, the 35-3 Longhorns are on the cusp of writing their ...

Apr. 3—They set the standard. The 1986 Texas Longhorns women's basketball team — led by Hall of Fame point guard Kamie Ethridge, now Washington State's head coach, and fellow Hall of Famer Andrea Lloyd, a 1983 Moscow High School graduate — capped a perfect 34-0 season with the program's one and only national championship.

Forty years later, the 35-3 Longhorns are on the cusp of writing their own story, in the Final Four for the second straight year and fourth time since the '86 team won it all. There is perhaps no one more invested in the outcome of today's Texas-versus-UCLA Final Four game than Ethridge. Her name hangs in the rafters of University of Texas' Moody Center, along with Lloyd's.

And Ethridge's former star player at WSU, Charlisse Leger-Walker, is completing her college career at UCLA. However, when the No. 1-seeded Texas Longhorns challenge their fellow top-seeded UCLA Bruins today at 6:30 p.