What a difference a game makes. Just two days ago, Texas forward Madison Booker, donning the “Orange Crush” KD19s in honor of her favorite player and former Texas star in Kevin Durant, got off to an uncharacteristically slow start in the Longhorns’ first round win over Missouri State. She went scoreless through the game’s first five minutes.
On Sunday, in the Longhorns’ dominating 100–58 win over Oregon in the second round, Booker put on a performance that would make Durant want to wear her sneaker. From the opening tip, Booker was a problem. The All-American ran around an off-ball screen under the basket along the baseline, caught a pass from guard Rori Harmon and popped a midrange jumper—her specialty—for her first basket within the game’s first minute. The game may as well have been over at that point.
