BATON ROUGE, La. — In the early minutes of a late November game, Missouri State forward Abby Hipp was helped to the sideline with her knee in pain.
Brice Calip, coming off a season that earned her the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year award and back for a sixth season, looked at her teammate's pain. Calip told Hipp the Lady Bears would win the game for her and she came through with her best game of the season.
Hipp was ruled out for the season with a torn ACL. Calip, to this day, says she would trade places with her.