Celebrating the Legacy of Lucy Harris-a Basketball Phenomena

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school basketball, the first of one of two women inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, the sport’s international hall of fame, in 1992, inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1990, and was an inaugural inductee into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.</p><p id="af98">Six foot three and weighed 185 was a tremendous leaper, strong, hard worker, great team player, great hands, great footwork, competitive, and was called the greatest women’s post player in the history of the game who was always about the winning. She was the driving force of three national championship teams and contributed a lot of her success to her coach, Margaret Wade.</p><p id="3c7f">While she was fierce on the court, off the court she was the complete opposite. She was soft-spoken, sweet, loving, and shy. Was adored by team players, coaches, family, friends, Delta State, women’s basketball, and the basketball institution.</p><p id="7292"><b>In conclusion</b>, Lucy Harris’s whole professional life was documented in an award-winning documentary, “The Queen of Basketball” detailing her life and career. She was recently featured on a talk show discussing this documentary. May her legacy live forever inspiring others to follow in her footsteps. R.I.P. Thank you for your service.</p><p id="3fd4">For additional reads:</p><div id="b666" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/celebrating-the-legacy-of-andre-leon-talley-a-creative-genius-f9d3a208ab21"> <div> <div> <h2>Celebrating the Legacy of Andre Leon Talley — a Creative Genius</h2> <d

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Celebrating the Legacy of Lucy Harris-a Basketball Phenomena

How a Delta State legend, Lucy Harris, became a basketball pioneer and trailblazer.

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Lucy Harris aka Lusia Harris and the Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell of women’s basketball was a Minter City, Mississippi native. Her legacy included leading the Delta State to three consecutive national championships at the highest level of women’s college basketball.

In 1975, the women’s basketball scene was changed forever as Lucy Harris burst onto the national basketball scene. She earned the title Lady Statesmen, to a 28–0 record and the national championship.

Being unstoppable, for half a century, Harris stood in a class all by herself towering over all. During her four-year Delta State career, she was the MVP of all three national tournaments. Throughout her career, she scored record points and rebounds never noted before. Notable, during one of the first women’s games ever played at Madison Square Garden, she scored 47 points.

Other credits included starring on several U.S. National teams and scoring the first basket in Olympic women’s basketball history in 1976, on the U.S. team that won the silver medal, the only woman ever drafted by an NBA team, drafted by the New Orleans Jazz in 1977, played one season in a fledging women’s professional league before returning to the Delta coaching high school basketball, the first of one of two women inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, the sport’s international hall of fame, in 1992, inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1990, and was an inaugural inductee into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.

Six foot three and weighed 185 was a tremendous leaper, strong, hard worker, great team player, great hands, great footwork, competitive, and was called the greatest women’s post player in the history of the game who was always about the winning. She was the driving force of three national championship teams and contributed a lot of her success to her coach, Margaret Wade.

While she was fierce on the court, off the court she was the complete opposite. She was soft-spoken, sweet, loving, and shy. Was adored by team players, coaches, family, friends, Delta State, women’s basketball, and the basketball institution.

In conclusion, Lucy Harris’s whole professional life was documented in an award-winning documentary, “The Queen of Basketball” detailing her life and career. She was recently featured on a talk show discussing this documentary. May her legacy live forever inspiring others to follow in her footsteps. R.I.P. Thank you for your service.

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