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Karen Blair first caught the eye of UNT women’s basketball coach Mike Petersen more than a decade ago. Petersen was the head coach at TCU in the 1996-97 season, when Blair was in her first year as the starting point guard for SMU. The two met in one of the epic battles of the SMU-TCU series, a 127-125 marathon that went four overtimes. The pair talked a little about that game over the last few weeks and will have plenty of additional time to reflect now that Blair has joined Petersen’s staff as an assistant coach. UNT announced the move Wednesday. “I knew her as a great competitor and a really smart point guard and followed her coaching career,“ Petersen said. “I thought she fit a need. She will be great coaching our guards. She is a really good teacher and played the position. She also has really good recruiting connections in DFW.“ Read more: http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/colleges/north-texas-headlines/20130502-basketball-notebook-george-mason-guard-commits-to-unt.ece -
It was a pretty big day in terms of news when it comes to UNT basketball yesterday with the Mean Green landing Vertail Vaughns, Karen Blair officially joining the Mike Petersen’s staff and the real zinger — Zach Peters visiting UNT today. While we are waiting to see what happens with Peters, here are some thoughts on Vaughns. I can see the concern with UNT lacking a lot of size at this point following the departure of Tony Mitchell and another forward who was a little on the small side in Roger Franklin, but going after and landing Vaughns was a solid move. UNT really struggled to shoot the ball last season at 28.5 percent from 3-point range and could use another high-character, leadership kind of guy. UNT had a ton of those guys in the past in the Eric Tramiels of the world, but had a bit of a void there last year outside of Franklin. Vaughns appears as if he can help address both concerns. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2013/05/9529.html/