Delta State’s women’s basketball legacy endures even as national spotlight has faded

CLEVELAND, Miss. — A sparse crowd drifted into Walter Sillers Coliseum for Delta State’s first women’s basketball game in 1973. It was a 4 p.m. tipoff against Holmes Community College, announced only in the local paper in rural Cleveland, Mississippi. There were no tickets, no concessions or buzz....

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