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The Women of Troy face the highly ranked Cardinal on Thursday at 7 p.m. before celebrating New Year's Eve morning with an 11 a.m. showdown against the Bears.
Michael Cooper challenged the Trojans with one of the toughest non-conference schedules in the country this season as he tries to push the program back to the heights of the Lisa Leslie years. Leslie won a pair of WNBA rings for Cooper down the street with the Los Angeles Sparks after winning National Player of the Year at Troy in 1994.
Leslie was also the first player to dunk in a WNBA game. Here she is in a 1990 photo shoot for Sports Illustrated...
