With 1,098 career wins, 18 Final Four appearances, and 8 national championships, Pat Summitt will forever be remembered as one of the greatest basketball coaches of all time. But her legacy extends beyond the court\u2014Summitt\u2019s public battle with Alzheimer\u2019s has inspired millions. This week, women\u2019s basketball teams across the country took part in the \u201cWe Back Pat\u201d movement, honoring the late Hall of Famer and raising awareness for the disease. Alabama’s game was on Sunday, where the Crimson Tide lost to Summitt’s former school, Tennessee.<\/p>\n
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“We have a responsibility to carry on Coach Summitt\u2019s legacy, with the dignity, class, and integrity, how she coached the game, how she impacted as a servant leader,” Alabama head coach Kristy Curry said. “To raise awareness for this dreadful disease, where everybody in this room knows somebody\u00a0who\u2019s\u00a0been affected, we truly have a responsibility.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Kristy Curry knew Summitt well. She lost to Summit\u2019s volunteers in the second round of the 2005 NCAA tournament, the game in which Summitt broke Dean Smith’s NCAA all-time\u00a0wins record. She cited the Hall of Famer as being a role model for herself and all coaches\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cI will forever be\u00a0indebted, and I think whenever we take time for others the way she did,\u00a0it only helps our game be better than where\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0at,\u201d Curry said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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With a\u00a0state-of-the-art\u00a0clinic in Knoxville and countless fundraising initiatives across the country, the Pat Summitt Foundation is one of the top\u00a0organizations\u00a0for Alzheimer\u2019s research and prevention. We Back Pat\u201d week is just a small part of the work being done in the name of the former coach to try and\u00a0render\u00a0Alzheimer\u2019s\u00a0a thing of the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With 1,098 career wins, 18 Final Four appearances, and 8 national championships, Pat Summitt will forever be remembered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3723],"tags":[1046,7,217,74997,231,772,1544,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-546198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-alabama","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-collegesports","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-basketball","14":"tag-ncaab","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115920289459720549","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}