Snow Could Be First to Dunk in Tournament

It’s coming, so be ready.

When Michelle Snow slams a ball through the hoop, it will be the first dunk by a woman in an NCAA game since West Virginia’s 6-foot-7 Georgeann Wells did it twice in the 1984-’85 season.

It nearly happened last weekend in the Mideast Regional--no woman has ever dunked in an NCAA tournament game--when the 6-5 Snow, alone on a breakaway, had hand and ball above the rim, but finished with a rim-rattler.

She’s under orders to wait for an uncontested dunk, she said.

“Coach [Pat Summitt] told me when I go for a dunk, that I’d better make it,” said Snow, who dunks routinely in warmups.

For the record, Wells--the only woman who has done it in NCAA competition--dunked in these two games in 1984:

* Dec. 21, 1984, against the University of Charleston at the Randolph County Armory in West Virginia.

* Dec. 29, 1984, against Xavier, at Morgantown, W. Va.

North Carolina’s 6-foot Charlotte Smith came close to dunks several times, including a rim-rattler in a 1995 game.