In 38 seasons at Tennessee, coach Pat Summitt lead the Lady Vols to eight national championships and more wonderful moments than can ever be properly summarized.
But as the sports world mourns the passing of one of the all-time great coaches, we offer a mere 10 of the best moments of Summitt's time guiding the Tennessee women's basketball program.
You could make many different lists of such moments, and none of them would be wrong. That's how vast and successful her career was. What we offer here is just one attempt to quantify an unquantifiable legend.
1. Winning the 1987 NCAA title
Sometimes it's hard to remember, with all the hardware Summitt brought to Rocky Top, that she actually didn't win her first national championship until her 13th season.
Tennessee had been knocking on the door for a while at that point, including runner-up finishes in 1980 and '81 when the AIAW was still the governing body for women's athletics.
In 1987, the Lady Vols were a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament and had to knock off three No. 1 seeds to win the championship. Their physical defensive style led an opponent at the Final Four to dub them the "corn-fed chicks," a nickname the Lady Vols proudly embraced.
In the championship game, Tennessee faced then-nemesis Louisiana Tech, against whom the Lady Vols had a 1-11 record. But this matchup was all Tennessee, as Summitt claimed her first title with a 67-44 victory. She would win seven more national championships, but it would be hard to eclipse the sheer joy and relief she felt after getting the first.
2. Winning the 1997 NCAA title
A decade after her title breakthrough, Summitt guided the Lady Vols to what was likely their most improbable championship. Tennessee had lost graduated stars such as Michelle Marciniak from its 1996 title team and had struggled with confidence and poise throughout the 1996-97 season.
The Lady Vols lost 10 games, finished fifth in the SEC, and were an NCAA No. 3 seed. But a scene from a documentary made about Tennessee during that season revealed how much Summitt had believed in her team. In the film, she addressed a sobbing group of players after a double-digit loss at Old Dominion in January.
She told them if they kept playing that hard, even if they lost a few more games, eventually it would pay off with a championship. It did, as Tennessee beat Old Dominion 68-59 in the rematch in the NCAA final.
3. Getting her 1,000th victory
Losing five starters off the 2008 national championship team was tough for Tennessee. The Lady Vols would go 22-11 in 2008-09 and suffer their earliest NCAA tournament loss, being upset in the first round.
But there was also an enormous milestone that season, as Summitt won her 1,000th career game. The victory came over Georgia at Thompson-Boling Arena, and showed that even in a "down" season, Summitt was doing legendary things.
4. Packed house for UConn, 1998
The rivalry between the Lady Vols and the Huskies was at a fever pitch by the 1998 season, as the programs had met in the NCAA tournament the three previous years. UConn won the '95 national championship, and Tennessee won it in 1996 and '97.
A then-record crowd of 24,597 at Thompson-Boling Arena came out on Jan. 3, 1998, to see if Tennessee could beat UConn and maintain its perfect record. The Lady Vols did that, prevailing 84-69 and eventually winning the NCAA title that year while finishing 39-0.
Two slightly larger crowds would see Summit's team vs. UConn at Thompson-Boling: 24,653 in Tennessee's 89-80 win in 2006, and 24,611 in an 86-72 win by the Huskies in 2002. All three of those games had a "major-event" energy factor to them that was such a hallmark of the Tennessee-UConn rivalry.
5. 1984 Olympics victory
Summitt had played for the United States in the first Olympics to include women's basketball, winning a silver medal in 1976. Then she was an assistant for the 1980 Olympic squad, but the U.S. boycotted those Games.
In 1984 at the Los Angeles Games, Summitt guided the Americans to their first Olympic gold. Two of her Tennessee players were on that team: Lea Henry and Cindy Noble.
6. Winning the 1991 NCAA title
The 1990 NCAA tournament had ended in gut-wrenching fashion for Summitt and the Lady Vols as they fell in overtime to Virginia in the Elite Eight. That meant Tennessee didn't get to play in the Final Four that was held at Thompson-Boling Arena.
But the next year, Tennessee and Virginia met again, this time in the national championship game in New Orleans. That game also went to overtime, but Tennessee prevailed to give Summitt her third NCAA title.
It was also the first title for her son, Tyler, who had almost been born on an airplane when Summitt was returning from a recruiting trip in Pennsylvania in September 1990. When the pilot had suggested an emergency landing in Virginia, a furiously determined Summitt insisted her son had to be born in Tennessee. And he was.
7. Comeback victory in the 1998 Elite Eight
The Lady Vols were aiming for their third consecutive NCAA title in the 1998 tournament, but North Carolina had other ideas. The Tar Heels' aggressiveness on offense and defense had them in control for much of the game, and they led by as much as 12 points late in the second half.
It looked as if Tennessee's perfect season and three-peat dream were going to end. But Summitt rallied her rattled team, and they came back to win 76-70.
By comparison, the Lady Vols' subsequent two wins at the 1998 Final Four were stress-free, coming by 28 and 18 points.
8. Winning the 2008 NCAA title
No one knew it at the time, but this would be Summitt's last national championship. It is also the most recent of Tennessee's 18 NCAA Final Four appearances.
The Lady Vols were a No. 1 seed and the defending champions in 2008, but needed a last-second basket by Alexis Hornbuckle to edge LSU 47-46 in the national semifinals. Meanwhile, the anticipated "grudge match" with UConn at the Final Four didn't materialize, because the Huskies lost to Stanford in the semis.
The Cardinal had looked so good in defeating the Huskies by nine points, they were the perceived favorites against Tennessee in the final. But that turned out to be all Tennessee, with the Lady Vols winning 64-48.
9. Having the Tennessee court named after her
The Lady Vols' NCAA tournament second-round victory in 2005 was Summitt's 880th, putting her past former North Carolina men's coach Dean Smith in career victories.
In a ceremony honoring her after the game, she found out the court at Thompson-Boling Arena was being named "The Summitt."
10. Winning the 2012 SEC title in Nashville
In her final season on the sideline, in 2011-2012, Summitt got her 16th SEC tournament title. And it came in the Music City, in front of thousands of Tennessee supporters.