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A Star Princeton Player Has a Sense of Where She’ll Be: The W.N.B.A.

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Bella Alarie has become a must-see player for the Princeton women’s basketball team. It’s something her coach, Courtney Banghart, has known for a while, but the rest of the world is just finding out.

Banghart began to sense that more people were becoming aware of her star player during a recent conversation with Chris Young, the former major league pitcher who played basketball and baseball at Princeton.

“He goes, ‘I’d pay to watch two players in college basketball: Zion Williamson and Bella Alarie,’” Banghart said.

Almost every basketball fan knows Williamson, Duke’s top player and probably the N.