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Rebecca Lobo
American basketball player / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rebecca Rose Lobo-Rushin (born October 6, 1973) is an American television basketball analyst and former women's basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 to 2003. Lobo, at 6'4", played the center position for much of her career. She played college basketball at the University of Connecticut, where she was a member of the team that won the 1995 national championship, going 35–0 on the season in the process. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010. In April 2017, she was one of the members of the 2017 class of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, alongside Tracy McGrady and Muffet McGraw.[1]
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Born | (1973-10-06) October 6, 1973 (age 50) Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | |||||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 185 lb (84 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
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High school | Southwick-Tolland (Southwick, Massachusetts) | |||||||||||||||||
College | UConn (1991–1995) | |||||||||||||||||
WNBA draft | 1997: Allocated | |||||||||||||||||
Selected by the New York Liberty | ||||||||||||||||||
Playing career | 1997–2003 | |||||||||||||||||
Position | Center | |||||||||||||||||
Number | 50 | |||||||||||||||||
Career history | ||||||||||||||||||
1997–2001 | New York Liberty | |||||||||||||||||
2002 | Houston Comets | |||||||||||||||||
2002–2003 | Springfield Spirit | |||||||||||||||||
2003 | Connecticut Sun | |||||||||||||||||
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Basketball Hall of Fame as player | ||||||||||||||||||
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame | ||||||||||||||||||
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