Baylor's Brittney Griner leads AP All-America team
Brittney Griner has dominated women's basketball all season.
Now the 6-foot-8 junior phenom is a unanimous selection to The Associated Press' All-America team Tuesday, a day after leading the unbeaten Lady Bears to their second Final Four in three seasons.
She was joined on the squad by Stanford's Nnemkadi Ogwumike, Notre Dame's Skylar Diggins, Delaware's Elena Delle Donne and Maryland's Alyssa Thomas.
"That would be a very strong team," Griner said. "I feel sorry for anyone who would have to play us."
Griner, who was on the first team for the second straight year, hasn't taken pity on her opponents. She has led the Lady Bears within two victories from becoming the first team in NCAA history to go 40-0.
"I would never have thought it would be like this. It's amazing," Griner said. "Sometimes you forget what you've done. You don't sit back and enjoy it as you're so focused on a goal. It definitely has been a great year so far. I hope it finishes the right way, too."
SRAGOW: For voters craving real change, Americans Elect will deliver
Last fall, when I decided to dive headfirst into Americans Elect, an organization planning to offer a centrist presidential candidate, I explained that I believe the political process in this country is out of date and dysfunctional. At a time when Americans are being battered by long-term joblessness, a public school system that has been privatized for any student whose parent can afford the price of tuition, and the far-reaching impact of technology on our everyday lives, our federal and state elected officials are stuck spinning their wheels in the mud.
In the intervening months, that has not changed, but I have learned two things.
First, as much as huge numbers of American voters say they want change, our political elites are deeply, deeply skeptical and risk averse. Between September and January, I briefed present and former mayors, governors and U.S. senators who might be Americans Elect nominees. And out of the roughly 50 people we met with, most of them well-known political figures, Buddy Roemer is the only one who has had the courage to step up.
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