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NCAA women's basketball: Test your knowledge

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In this March 8 file photo, Connecticut's Maya Moore, left, scores while being guarded by Notre Dame's Devereaux Peters during the second half Connecticut's 73-64 victory in an NCAA college basketball game for the Big East tournament championship in Hartford, Conn. Connecticut, Tennessee, Baylor and Stanford are the No. 1 seeds in the NCAA women's basketball tournament that begins Saturday, March 19.

Since 1982, the NCAA has conducted a tournament to determine the champions of women's basketball. To gauge your knowledge of the women's game, or just to learn some interesting facts about it, try taking the following quiz.

  • By Ross Atkin

1. Which coaching fixture in the tournament became the first woman to break the $1 million salary barrier?

Tara VanDerveer of Stanford

Pat Summitt of Tennessee

Kim Mulkey of Baylor

Sherrie Coales of Oklahoma
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