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Thursday, January 29, 2009

From the AP's Aaron Beard: Wolfpack coming to grips with Yow’s death.

Kay Yow sometimes said that basketball offered an escape from her long fight against cancer.

Now Yow is gone, and the players and coaches she left behind at North Carolina State don’t know if they can find a similar solace in the sport they love.

“We have no idea, do we?” interim coach Stephanie Glance said Tuesday as she put her arms around senior Shayla Fields and sophomore Tia Bell. “We’re going to sort of walk through this, moment by moment and day by day, as best we can as a group of people who find ourselves in a very difficult situation.