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TUSCALOOSA | The University of Alabama women’s basketball team traveled all the way to Italy in August to see it firsthand, but understood the old saying prior to their summer trip.
“Rome wasn’t built in a day,” senior forward Nikki Hegstetter said at the team’s preseason Media Day on Monday. “That’s the motto for our team. We are taking the framework of what we’ve built in the last two years and we’re building on it.”
The Crimson Tide went 13-19 last season, 2-14 in SEC play, and was picked to finish 14th in the 14-team league again this year in a preseason media poll.