Gallaudet Basketball

College Gameday (Saturday March 5, 2011, 10 a.m., ESPNU; 11 a.m., ESPN)
How do you coach a team's players when you can't speak their language? That was the challenge Kevin Cook faced four years ago when he accepted the women's basketball coaching job at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. The language he couldn't speak? Sign language. Gallaudet is the world's only college exclusively for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Before Cook took over, the Bison had lost 63 consecutive regular-season North Eastern Athletic Conference games, and had only seven players on the team. But over the past four years, Cook has learned sign language and turned the program around. Gallaudet qualified for the NCAA Division III tournament for the first time since 1999. George Smith reports.

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