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Just keeps winning and winning and ... Rutgers University coach continues to make history.

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SHE has been called everything from "the master builder of basketball programs" to one of the "101 Most Influential Minorities in Sports."

But walk into C. Vivian Stringer's office at Rutgers University and the first thing you notice is not the championship banners that decorate the wall, or the game balls, or the Hall of Fame references, or the indicators of Olympic triumphs.

On this day, Stringer's accomplishments during more than three decades of coaching women's collegiate basketball is lost amid the maze of white tape strategically placed on her office floor.

Has the woman who is so passionate about basketball that she routinely stays up much of the night looking at film of opponents begun drawing up plays on her office floor? No, it turns out the circles and squares are not her defensive strategy for the upcoming clash against rival Connecticut. It's the game plan for her office furniture. "I'm getting a new desk and bookcase," Stringer explains. "They tried to explain to me what it was going to look like. They...

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