Last March before the NCAA Tournament, I had a little fun writing about Orville and Wilbur Wright, as one of the women's regionals was in their hometown of Dayton.
But I thought then, and had over the years, that it was odd that the Dayton Flyers had never made an NCAA Tournament appearance in women's basketball.
Consider that the Flyers were the AIAW Division II national champions in 1980. There were NCAA regionals held in Dayton in 1998 and 2003, too, so the school had shown interest in the game by bidding for those. And there is lots of high school girls' basketball talent in the state of Ohio.
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Mechelle Voepel
espnW.comMechelle Voepel joined ESPN.com in 1996 and covers women's college hoops, the WNBA and additional collegiate sports for espnW.
Born in Los Angeles, she grew up 40 miles north of St. Louis and is a lifelong Cardinals fan still basking in amazement over their 2011 World Series title.
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