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Summer Erb
Summer Erb


Name: Summer Erb
School: N.C. State
Year: Senior
First-round opponent: Southern Methodist
Season stats: 15.8 ppg, 8.4 rpg, 55.5 percent FG, 77 percent FT.
Honors: Named to WBCA All-Star Challenge team; Kodak All-American finalist; 1999 ACC Player of the Year.

Summer Erb, North Carolina State's 6-foot-6 center, says the former Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons star is the one player in the world she'd most like to take on in a game of one-on-one.

Erb's zest for the Worm surfaced as the 1999 Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year completed a survey for ESPN.com. More than 20 players were asked to participate, and the Tournament Dish will continue to roll out the Bio Rhythms -- a fun and humorous look at the athlete by the athlete -- throughout the women's NCAA Tournament.

For more on Erb, check our her responses below:

Favorite food: Steak.

Favorite TV show: Dharma & Greg.

Favorite movie: Hoosiers.

Favorite book: Death Sentence.

How did you get started playing basketball? When I was in fifth grade, a coach saw me playing ball in my yard and asked my parents if I could play on his sixth- and seventh-grade team.

What is your best memory or moment on the basketball court? Going to the Final Four in 1998, and Senior Day.

Do you have any pregame rituals? I always wear my lucky blue USA Basketball shorts and get a good-luck kiss from my mom.

Who is the best player you've ever faced? Leslie "Baby Barkley" Johnson.

Which player -- man or woman -- would you most like to take one-on-one? Dennis Rodman.

Person you'd most like to meet? Cher.

Tell us something we don't know about you: I'm a big teddy bear. I have a soft heart and I love animals.

Finish the following three sentences:
ESPN stands for: Every Season 'Pack in the NCAAs.
Other than the Final Four, when I think of Philadelphia, I think of: Cream cheese.
If I wasn't a basketball player, I'd be a: jockey.

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