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Douglas one of diamonds in rough

By Mechelle Voepel
Special to ESPN.com

Saturday, October 3, 2009

(Editor's note: This column was first published on March 17, 2001, as part of ESPN.com's women's NCAA tournament coverage. Purdue went on to reach the Final Four that season, losing to Notre Dame in the national championship game.) A year ago at this time, most of us outsiders didn't know just how much Purdue's Katie Douglas was dealing with. We knew her father had died while Douglas was in high school, and that friend and teammate Tiffany Young had been killed by a drunken driver the summer ...

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