Circle the Wagons

In 1993 Jimmy Valvano and ESPN founded the V Foundation for Cancer Research... Jimmy Valvano was the "legendary" North Carolina State basketball coach who was diagnosed with cancer....

Kay Yow was the North Carolina State women's basketball coach, and she succumbed to cancer in 2009.  She, too, was a legend...

In December 2007, the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund in partnership with The V Foundation was established as a charitable organization committed to finding an answer in the fight against women’s cancers.

Throughout the women's basketball season, mention is made of the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund but in February, things get ramped up... Teams wear pink, ask their fans to wear pink, collect donations, have fund raisers, all to collect money for cancer research...

Women do it better:  we network better, we support better, we help each other better. To me, it is awe-inspiring to see how we work together to help support cancer research...