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Southern Miss women's basketball coach Joye Lee-McNelis announces she has Stage 4 lung cancer

Southern Miss women's basketball coach Joye Lee-McNelis announced Saturday in a pregame show that she has Stage 4 lung cancer.

She was first diagnosed with lung cancer in 2017.

Lee-McNelis has been the head coach of the Golden Eagles since 2004, and she's ninth on the school's all-time scoring list. She was also inducted into the school's hall of fame in 1997.

Before coming over to USM, she was the head coach at Memphis from 1991-2004, where she led the Tigers to the NCAA Tournament four times.

Lee-McNelis is a Mississippi native that played her high school ball at Hancock High School.