![]() ![]() Now I understand what he was doing, but at the time I was like, ‘OK, I guess I’m not tired.’ Usually, he was asking me if I was tired or not, or just trying to assess how I was doing. That’s the thing I remember most about the Albany game, is him telling me, ‘Don’t get tired,’ which was out of character for him. You’re not tired,’ trying to convince me that I wasn’t tired. I remember our assistant coach, Coach McGeever, looking at me in the eyes and saying, ‘Don’t get tired. I do remember at one point, later in the first half, being exhausted and asking for a sub and they called a timeout. I was pretty surprised at the end of the game when they told me that I had scored that many points because I really was just focused on watching the scoreboard and making sure we had more points than the other team. I clearly remember getting some put-backs early in the game, like a couple in a row, two or three in successive possessions. Do you recall anything about the game? I just remember getting a lot of offensive rebounds. You hold the Penn women’s basketball record for most points scored in a game, dropping 42 against Albany on Jan. I don’t put the ball in the basket without great coaches to develop me and great teammates to pass it to me, or set screens, or whatever the offense called for. My high school coach and my college coaches really helped me to develop and continue to be able to score the way I grew up scoring, and then I just had great teammates that were unselfish. Scoring was kind of the thing that I did a lot of growing up, but at the college level, I had a lot of great coaches to help me continue to develop that ability as I changed levels because people were faster and bigger and stronger, and the pace of the game was faster. ![]() Penn Today chatted with her recently about getting buckets, staying out of foul trouble, her last game at the Palestra, playing professionally in France, and what she’s up to today.ĭid you come to college with a scoring mentality, or was scoring something you had to focus on to help the team? I remember from a pretty young age of kind of having a knack for putting the ball in the basket. The Big 5 Hall of fame came calling in 2007, and the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016.Ī native of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Caramanico is an alumna of the Wharton School and the College of Liberal & Professional Studies. In her senior year, Penn finished with an unblemished 14-0 conference record, won the Ivy League for the first time, and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. During her junior season, she averaged 24.8 points per contest, second-best in the country. Likewise, she is the women’s basketball team’s all-time leader in rebounds (1,207) and steals (210).įour times in four years as a Quaker, Caramanico was a First-Team All-Ivy selection, and she was a three-time Ivy League Player of the Year and Big 5 Player of the Year.Īs a sophomore, she recorded 21 double-doubles in 26 games. Diana Caramanico got buckets, as the kids say these days.īushels of buckets, so much so that she graduated in 2001 as the leading scorer in Penn basketball history, men or women, with 2,415 points, and the top scorer in Ivy League women’s history and Big 5 women’s history.
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