In 1980, N.C. State wanted to hire Morgan Wootten as its next men’s basketball coach. Wootten had built DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland into a powerhouse, winning – at that time – four high school national championships. He’d win another one in 1984, a few years after he turned down the Wolfpack’s offer to jump to the Division I college level. When Wootten declined N.C. State’s overtures, he said, “As far as climbing mountains, they are where you find them.”
It is apparent now that Dawn Staley’s mountain is in women’s college basketball.
