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Talk about bragging rights. Rutgers guard Tasha Pointer can actually make the ultimate boast for a basketball player:

POINTER'S POINTS
Tasha Pointer
Tasha Pointer has helped lead Rutgers into the Sweet 16.


Name: Tasha Pointer
School: Rutgers
Year: Junior
Position: Guard
Season stats: 9.5 ppg., 5.3 apg., 4.6 rpg., 1.9 spg., 45 percent FG.
Honors: All-Big East second team member in 1999-2000. Co-captain in 1999-2000. Former Big East Rookie of the Year.

She beat Michael Jordan in a game of one-on-one.

Now, we're not sure if MJ was going 100 percent, but we do know that Pointer got the best of His Airness during a friendly little game at his camp in 1998.

However, Pointer says she's up for a rematch if Jordan is game.

Pointer recounted the experience while completing 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 Pointer, check our her responses below:

Favorite food: Spaghetti.

Favorite TV show: Moesha.

Favorite movie: Enemy of the State.

Favorite book: The Ditch Diggers' Daughters.

How did you get started playing basketball? I went to the YMCA with my father and watched when I was about 4 years old. I started playing when I was 10, with my brothers on the playground.

What is your best memory or moment on the basketball court? Playing against Michael Jordan at Jordan's camp during the summer of 1998 in Chicago.

Do you have any pregame rituals? I wear one black sock on the left foot and a white sock on the right. I have different color shoe laces in each shoe, too. I give assistant coach Jolette Law a hug.

Who is the best player you've ever faced? My teammate Shawnetta Stewart.

Which player -- man or woman -- would you most like to take one-on-one? Michael Jordan, to give him another chance. (I won the first meeting at his camp.)

Person you'd most like to meet? Magic Johnson.

Tell us something we don't know about you: I am very superstitious. I like to do the same things when I'm successful and avoid doing the things I did when I wasn't successful. For example, if I went to bed at 9 p.m. and then had a great game the next day, I'll do that all season.

Finish the following three sentences:
ESPN stands for: Entertaining and Special (Tasha) Pointer Network.
Other than the Final Four, when I think of Philadelphia, I think of: The city where Wilt Chamberlain set scoring records.
If I wasn't a basketball player, I'd be a: A teacher. I'd be teaching seventh and eighth graders.

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