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Wearing red, white and blue over the summer in Mexico City, Aijha Blackwell struck gold.
Aijha Blackwell, a 6-foot guard at Whitfield (St. Louis) School and the No. 8 prospect in the espnW HoopGurlz Top 100, has announced her commitment to play basketball at Missouri.
Blackwell -- whose father, Ernest Blackwell, played football for the Tigers and died in 2004 -- had also considered Louisville and Kansas.
"I wanted to keep the legacy going," she said. "My dad was a running back there for the football team, and I wanted to fill his shoes.