Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer)
Before she took over the Colorado women's basketball program in 1983, Ceal Barry cut her coaching teeth at Cincinnati. In those days there was no sanctioned NCAA national championship for women's basketball, and the manner in which she often filled her roster was almost as quaint as peach bucket baskets and Chuck Taylor high-tops.
"You'd have an open audition in the gym, and all the athletes that you had recruited came to your gym," Barry recalled. "They came to you. You picked out three or four of them and offered them a scholarship and walked them around campus.