If it wasn't for Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, Ja'Tavia Tapley would not be current national women's basketball Player of the Week for Arizona State.
Connecting those dots takes some work but is worth doing now that Tapley has broken through to somewhat become the face of ASU in the wake of its weekend sweep of then two top five-ranked teams.
Tapley was a four-star recruit from Jacksonville, Fla., ranked No. 68 nationally in the 2016 HoopGurlz top 100. She could have gone anywhere in the South but had a different vision for college that meshed with what Cooper-Dyke saw for USC.