Today the Tulane women will become the first team in any major sport to play a game in New Orleans since Katrina.

"This team is tremendously close because of this shared experience," coach Lisa Stockton said. "We have had so many distractions to deal with off the court. We have been in a different city, on a different campus and in different classes. The one thing we all recognized was the game. We came together every day in the gym. The basketball court was the only familiar thing in our lives."