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The first inductee in the brand-new Team category is the 1988-89 Dinos women's basketball team – one of the deepest, most talented, and most prolific hoops squads ever.
Made up almost exclusively of graduates from Calgary high schools – Lacombe, Alta's VanderSchee the lone exception – the team averaged nearly 90 points per game. With the likes of VanderSchee, hall-of-famer (and Rhodes Scholar) Jodi Evans, Cori Blakebrough, Debbie Patterson, and Karen Degner, the team cruised through a powerhouse Canada West league at 20-0, hosted and won the conference tournament, and headed to Sudbury, Ont. as the top seed for the CIAU championship. After surviving a scare in the semi-final – where they had to come back from a 17-point halftime deficit against Toronto – the Dinos captured the University of Calgary's only national championship in women's basketball with a crushing 92-55 win over UPEI to finish the year 36-0.
The squad went on to win its next 33 games the following year, moving their undefeated streak to 69 games against Canadian and NCAA competition – a North American record at the time.
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