Jeff Judkins had big plans, big hoop dreams 40 years ago.
He still does, in a place, in a role, he did not imagine, a place and a role that have traversed gender and rival allegiance.
The junior who would become an All-American at Utah already had proved his coach, Jerry Pimm, wrong. When Pimm met with Judkins, out of Highland High School, recruiting him as a kind of afterthought, the coach, in an unorthodox pitch, told the eager prepster that he wasn’t all that good, that he’d be lucky to be a...
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