Somebody had to speak up.
Two days after igniting a national conversation about the need to have more women in positions of power _ both in sports and outside of it _ Notre Dame women's basketball coach Muffet McGraw found herself explaining why she felt it was important to use to use her Final Four pulpit to advocate for social change.
"I think when we lost Pat Summitt, we lost an icon and we also did lose a spokeswoman for our game," McGraw said Saturday as her team prepared to defend its national championship against Baylor Sunday. "She did so many great things for women, for the women's game. She was always about what's best for the game, not what's best for me. She constantly empowered and promoted women.
