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What: “Raise the Roof.”

Author: Pat Summitt, with Sally Jenkins.

Publishers: Broadway Books ($25).

On the way to last season’s 39-0 record, Tennessee women’s basketball Coach Pat Summitt and her team had a problem.

A stalker.

A man began attending the Lady Vols’ games, home and away, and sending notes to player Kyra Elzy. One of the notes contained $100. Elzy turned it over to Tennessee assistant coach Mickie DeMoss.

Summitt confronted the man shortly after a game at Kentucky and handed him back the $100.

“You stay away from Kyra and you stay away from this team,” she told him. “Don’t you contact her again. Do we understand each other?”

Just another hurdle for the Lady Vols on their way to the greatest season ever in women’s college basketball.

“Raise the Roof” takes the reader from Day 1, when freshmen arrived on campus in late summer 1997, to March and the national championship. It’s the story of the sport’s most successful coach solving stalker problems, the mood swings of 18-year-olds, injuries, obscene phone callers and challenging the college game’s greatest player, then-junior Chamique Holdsclaw.

Of Holdsclaw, Summitt writes of reports early last season that Holdsclaw would leave school, sign with the ABL, and become the sport’s first million-dollar player. (Holdsclaw remained in school; the ABL folded in December 1998.)

“Everyone thinks I’m leaving, but right now I want to stay and get my degree,” Holdsclaw told her coach. “I don’t want to be the one to set a negative trend. . . . I don’t want to be the player who brings it down a notch.”