Kalana Greene upbeat despite injury.

Kalana Greene didn't believe that she would not play another second this season for the UConn women's basketball team as she was being helped off the floor at Gampel Pavilion Dec. 17. She was still able to apply pressure on her right leg. To her, that was a promising sign. However, once team doctors Robert Arciero and Tom Trojian examined Greene in the training room, any sign of promise was emphatically smashed. The preliminary tests revealed damage to the anterior cruciate and lateral cruciate ligaments in her right knee. An MRI later confirmed that both were torn, effectively ending her season. "You never anticipate going into the game saying, 'I'm going to get hurt,' " Greene said. "So it happening the way it happened ... It happened so fast. Angry and sad at the same time. But I'm not going to sit there and ask any questions as to why it happened because it's an injury that happens all the time and a lot of people suffer it. I think it's a test that in the long run it's going to make me a whole lot stronger."