First-year MU women's basketball players<br>learning on the fly

Friday, November 9, 2007 | 1:38 a.m. CST; updated 9:04 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, July 16, 2008

COLUMBIA — In the middle of the second half of Monday’s exhibition game against Division II Pittsburg State, the Missouri women’s basketball team could have looked to junior leader Alyssa Hollins to pull them out of a 13-point deficit. Instead, Missouri coach Cindy Stein relied on all four of her first-year players to lead the Tigers to a comeback victory.

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