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Seeds aside, the better team won

By Mechelle Voepel
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, March 30, 2009

RALEIGH, N.C. -- When Angel McCoughtry was growing up in Baltimore and would go out to play pickup basketball, she'd always get a warning from her dad, Roi. "He was like, 'Come in before dark,'" McCoughtry said. "But that's when the pickup games got good, when it was getting dark. And the lights would come on, and I'd have to come home. I would get in trouble because I would always come home late. I was always outside, playing basketball." Well, McCoughtry is about to play where the ligh ...

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