Mary Wise might want to place a telephone call this week to Richard “Digger” Phelps, the ESPN college basketball studio analyst, on what it meant to break UCLA’s remarkable 88-game winning streak. The Florida volleyball coach also could show her No. 4 Gators the speech that the late Herb Brooks (portrayed by Kurt Russell in the movie, “Miracle”) gave to the U.S. hockey team just moments before sending them out onto the ice to play the invincible Soviet Union team in the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y.

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