![]() ![]() ![]() Hammon eventually found a home at Colorado State. There were a lot of coaches who felt that way.” I saw her, but I didn’t think she was good enough to put on my list. “I underestimated what type of potential she had, and didn’t recruit her. “I made the same mistake a lot of other top-20 programs made,” Collen, who later became the head coach at Colorado State, told the Denver Post in 1999. Tom Collen, then an assistant coach at Arkansas, recounted that after seeing Hammon compete at a camp in Terre Haute, Indiana, he wrote three words next to her name: average white girl. Hammon, who grew up in Rapid City, South Dakota, wasn’t highly recruited out of high school. “I’m disappointed, but the battle’s not over,” Hammon told the Fort Collins Coloradoan after the WNBA Draft. And that certainly wasn’t the first time - nor the last - that Hammon wouldn’t be picked. Two months after that headline, Hammon would go undrafted in the 1999 WNBA Draft. As Becky Hammon‘s prolific collegiate basketball career was nearing its end, a headline in the Denver Post proclaimed that “No one will underestimate Colorado State’s Becky Hammon ever again.”Ī nice thought, but alas. ![]()
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