On the NYTimes website, courtesy of the AP, a piece on Syracuse's Fantasia Goodwin and her journey to be a member of the team.

She is a big reason why the Orange have been ranked this season for the first time in the program’s 37-year history. And the road she has traveled in her 22 years has been daunting: foster care, group homes, juvenile homes, the death of her mother. She also became a mother.

“I grew up in the system all my life,” said Goodwin. “It’s been rough. I’m just trying to overcome all that right now by doing good things.”