Exactly How Good Is Mo'ne Davis At Basketball, Anyway?

— -- Hi! My name is Dan Olson, and I spend 50 weeks a year traveling around the country evaluating girls' basketball players so I can provide player rankings to espnW and recruiting information to NCAA coaches. As you can imagine, during the course of my travels I constantly meet girls who tell me they want to play at UConn. Normally I'm immune. But not when the most popular 13-year-old athlete in the country tells ESPN this: "I want to go to UConn and be the point guard on the basketball team. That's, like, my dream and then go into the WNBA."?That's how I found myself in Philadelphia watching Mo'ne Davis last week. The 2014 Little League World Series phenom is a freshman now, and she plays varsity for Springside Chestnut Hill Academy. On this day, SCHA was visiting fellow Philly school Germantown. Here is what I saw.

It's not every day that you walk into a high school girls' basketball game and see a couple kids waving Sports Illustrated pictures of one of the players. In fact, I can't say it has ever happened to me. But sure enough, two young girls -- they were probably about 5 or 6 years old -- were sitting with their mom and dad showing their support for Mo'ne Davis, who in 2014 became the first girl to win a Little League World Series game.

I'll say this right off the bat: Davis needed their support. She is by far the best player on her team, which starts two other freshmen in addition to her. She also has the highest basketball IQ. In fact, her teammates often passed the ball to Davis and then actually brought the double team to her, forcing her into a trap.