TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Brooke Wyckoff remembers the first time she watched Ta’Niya Latson play. Not in person at a gym. But on a small cell phone screen, a highlight video recorded thousands of miles and an ocean away.
Then a middle school player with unique explosiveness but also a rugged toughness, Latson had an unrelenting drive to the basket, aggressiveness and athleticism. Though Latson was living in Hawaii at the time, Wyckoff knew: “We have to find a way to offer her.”
Now, some seven years later, Latson is the face of Wyckoff’s Florida State women’s college basketball team and one of the most decorated players in school history. Despite her many accomplishments — All-American as a freshman; the nation’s leading scorer this season as a junior — Latson remains perhaps the most unheralded player in the country.
Would she like more people to watch her play and get to know her game? Without question. Does she often ask herself what more she could do? Absolutely. But Latson finds solace in the cold, hard numbers.
“I’m just thankful that I am in the position that I am in,” Latson told ESPN. “Stats don’t lie, and they can’t deny my…
