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The IX Sports Podcast College Basketball Edition: Adia Barnes
Before engineering a new era on the Hilltop, Adia Barnes was a legend on the court at Arizona, leaving as the program's first-ever All-American. She won a WNBA championship with the Seattle Storm in 2004 and put together a long career overseas before trading her jersey for a clipboard.
Barnes doesn't take the easy route. She returned to her alma mater as head coach and built a struggling program into a national powerhouse, leading Arizona to within a single basket of a national championship in 2021. Now, she’s bringing that underdog mentality to Dallas, working to rebuild an SMU program while…
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