The "simple" lessons often are the most profound, and McCoughtry -- a Kodak All-American last season -- has learned a lot in her 21 years. A prep star out of St. Francis High in Baltimore, she originally committed to St. John's. Things didn't work out academically, though, so she went to The Patterson School in North Carolina for a year of college prep work and did the recruiting process over. Naturally, one of the schools that had some interest was Maryland, in her home state. But McCoughtry knew the Terps were getting Marissa Coleman and understood she would have a better chance to play more somewhere else. McCoughtry did get to know then-Maryland assistant Jeff Walz, though. And that would come in handy later.

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