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Casey Shaw was already a fan of Dana Drew — even if she wasn’t aware — when Toledo men’s basketball coach Larry Gipson approached his 6-foot-10 center with an important task: serve as Bryce Drew’s recruiting host.
Perfect, Shaw thought, I’ll get to spend the entire weekend with Dana, Drew’s older sister.
Bryce Drew did not commit to Toledo — he played for his father, Homer, at Valparaiso and became a college basketball folk hero when he drilled an improbable buzzer-beater in the 1998 NCAA tournament, ushering Drew and Valpo into American pop culture.