The Big 12 Preseason Freshman of the Year finds direction through the game of basketball.
From the very beginning, basketball was the center of Lashann Higgs' world. She was born onto a small sandy stretch in the Bahamas, near Nassau, called Harbor Island, which is quaintly about a mile wide and three miles long.
"It's not very big at all. You really don't need vehicles to get around the island," Higgs says.
Her daily walks, usually from home to school and back again, took her through a park, which included a basketball court.