The first thing you have to understand, when you try to guard Texas star Madison Booker, is that you can’t. This can be frustrating at first, but it is also liberating, and it allows you to focus on the only strategy that works against Booker: plug her ears.
You want her to forget that South Carolina coach Dawn Staley called her “a big guard that can pretty much get her shot off at any given time.” Or that Ole Miss coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin called her “God's gift.” And whatever you do, do not let her listen to her own coach, Vic Schaefer: “I don’t care if a post player switches off of you or not. Go at them and finish them off at the rim. They can’t do anything with you anyway.”
