DALLAS — Kenny Brooks brought his daughter, Chloe, to Dallas for the 2017 Final Four as a 'daddy-daughter date.' They watched one of the game's most iconic upsets and moments when Mississippi State snapped Connecticut's 111-game winning streak in overtime of the semifinal.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - MARCH 27: Head coach Kenny Brooks of the Virginia Tech Hokies celebrates with team after defeating the Ohio State Buckeyes 84-74 in the Elite Eight round of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament at Climate Pledge Arena on March 27, 2023 in Seattle, Washington. DALLAS — Kenny Brooks brought his daughter, Chloe, to Dallas for the 2017 Final Four as a “daddy-daughter date.
“There was a huge eruption, and everybody was like, ‘Yeah, we can do it,’” Brooks said. “Immediately I was like, ‘Did I just stick my foot in my mouth?’ Because it’s a very tough task to get here.” “Nobody ever wanted to play him because he was that good a coach and just really did wonderful things there,” Mulkey, who will face Brooks again as LSU’s head coach, said on Tuesday. “And then when he got to Virginia Tech, he was able to recruit a different athlete, a more — how do I say it, just a more five-star, blue-star, whatever they want to call them, type of athletes that maybe he couldn’t get at James Madison.
Ahead of their record-breaking season, he brought in Soule from the transfer portal. Soule, a 5-11 forward, played four seasons at Boston College and said the vibe and energy she felt speaking with Brooks after their ACC games was part of the reason she joined him. “I could see we had the makings of a team that wanted to get better and wanted to not just be OK with being ranked third in the conference,” Soule said. “It was a team that was like, no, I want to be better, I want to be a 1-seed, I want to be in the tournament, I want to make it as far as we can.”
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