Janel McCarville owns one pinstripe suit, six tattoos, and an "uninhibited" sense of humor. "We need her to get a kind of a mean streak," Dawn Staley says. "Let's have fun, but between the lines you need to dominate. You can't be everybody's friend."

Gopher fans have followed McCarville's mom in her fight against cancer, which has now turned up in her liver. Bonnie McCarville will begin a new round of chemotherapy later this year. First, though, she's heading to Charlotte to see Janel play, calling it a "chemo holiday."

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