Dick Patrick over at USA Today takes (well-deserved) notice of Pittsburgh's Shavonte Zellous. Zellous was the Big East's most improved player last season, averaging 19.1 ppg. This year, she's averaging 29.8 in four Big East games. Where'd she come from?

In May 2003, Agnus Berenato was the new coach at Pittsburgh looking for prospects and Shavonte Zellous was a basketball player/track star in Orlando without any Division I offers.

"We took her," said Berenato, previously the coach at Georgia Tech. "That was because we were so bad that we needed anything."