BIRMINGHAM—Hailey Van Lith has played a lot of great basketball and competed in five straight Elite Eights, but when the last one ended, she kept thinking about the pain. She was a superstar in high school, a phenom when she arrived with the Louisville Cardinals, and a starter on a defending national champion with the LSU Tigers, but by the time she joined the TCU Horned Frogs last year, she was broken.
“I wasn’t necessarily in a place where I knew who I was anymore,” Van Lith said.
