The final page of the final chapter of this unique Kansas State women's basketball story featured fight. In the end, the Wildcats, who began this season as the third-youngest team among all Power 4 Conference schools — a squad that grew and grew some more — was charged with clawing back from a 20-point deficit in the final five minutes of the fourth quarter against California. Some teams might've shriveled.
In the moments before her sixth and final attempt, Kansas State junior Daniela Wamokpego, a native of France and transfer from Iowa, caught sight of her jumps coach, Clive Pullen, at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
For now, she sits upon a purple throne — a purple padded folding chair in the corner of Bramlage Coliseum — shortly after noon on Tuesday after practice.
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