Wherever I look, there be Graham: Carlee steps up in Hand's absence

When one door closes, perhaps another opens, as fortune cookies and greeting cards are wont to tell us. But the laws of physics are considerably clearer in demanding a single door must be closed before it can open.

When the lock clicked in Whitney Hand's room the night after the Oklahoma sophomore suffered a knee injury in a game against San Diego State in the Virgin Islands, her season was over, even if tests wouldn't confirm a torn ACL until days later. Yet Hand wasn't alone in the room, and when the hinges moved again the next morning, a new opportunity awaited Carlee Roethlisberger.