Carla Gugino
Cathy Rush
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The movie tells the story of the women’s basketball team at Immaculata College in the Philadelphia suburbs that won the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women basketball championship in 1972, the year that college women’s basketball converted to the full-court game played today.
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Oct 20, 2011 · In 2000, when the Women's Final Four was in Philadelphia and Mighty Mac alum Rene Portland had her Penn State team there, the story was told by multiple national outlets.
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The Mighty Macs. In the early '70s, Cathy Rush becomes the head basketball coach of a tiny girls' Catholic college that has no gym and is in danger of being sold, and she determines to steer her team to their first national championship.
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- Drama, Sport
- Tim Chambers
- 2011-10-21
THE MIGHTY MACS is based on the incredible true story of the 1971-72 Immaculata College team that started in obscurity but became the original Cinderella story in women's basketball. This team of pioneers went from barely making that inaugural tournament to the first dynasty in their game.
Oct 24, 2011 · This classic 1986 film is loosely based on the story of a tiny high school in rural Indiana whose basketball team transforms itself from a group of scrappy underdogs into state champions.
Oct 21, 2011 · The true story of the Mighty Macs has always read like a movie script. It starts in 1971 with a 23-year-old named Cathy Rush. The former high school basketball star was coaching the ragtag...
Oct 7, 2011 · Opening in theaters October 21, The Mighty Macs tells the true story of the first women's Cinderella team. Meet the stars, learn the real backstory, and get ready to cheer on The...
- 5 min
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