DMN: Strength in numbers gives SMU women an edge inside

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Strength in numbers gives SMU women an edge inside

08:16 PM CST on Friday, February 27, 2009

By BOBBI ROQUEMORE / The Dallas Morning News
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The departure of all-Conference USA center Janielle Dodds after last season left SMU with big shoes to fill in the middle.

But what was a shallow area is now overflowing with options. Junior Alice Severin, freshman Christine Elliott and redshirt freshman Heidi Brandenburg have given SMU plenty of muscle inside.

Their development at center, along with that of junior Delisha Wills and freshman Alicia Mitcham at power forward, has allowed coach Rhonda Rompola to do what had been unthinkable.

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