In her extremely limited role, the Penn State junior forward has been Rene Portland's last option off the bench for arguably the Big Ten's premier frontcourt. Playing behind Andrea Garner, Clara Carter, Maren Walseth and freshman Rashana Barnes, Graby has found different ways to contribute -- ways that do not show up in the box score.

Need a shout of desperate encouragement from the bench?

Look no further than Graby.

Expecting congratulation following a big Penn State run?

Graby will not disappoint you.

Looking for a cardboard bus with caricatures of every Penn State player and coach on it for the Nittany Lion mascot to ride around in, promoting the Lions' upcoming road games?

Graby will make one.

But on college basketball's biggest stage -- the women's NCAA Tournament -- Portland needed Graby for something much greater than a simple arts and crafts project. She needed valuable minutes from her.

"I just wanted to do the things that I had been doing all week long," Graby said. "I liked the fact that I was able to play but that is not the way I would like to get playing time. Really, I was upset that I got to play."

Usually a player who averages 1.8 points per game and less than a rebound per contest would be ecstatic to be given the opportunity to enter a game still very much in doubt.

But this was not a usual circumstance.

With 4:03 remaining in the first half against Virginia, Penn State's seemingly indestructible frontcourt crumbled -- as did the knee of All-Big Ten center Andrea Garner when she went down to the hardwood after it had been dislocated.

"I was very emotional. (Andrea) and I have been through a lot together," guard Helen Darling said in a Penn State press release following the first-round contest. "That brought me to tears, hearing her scream like that. I just had to focus on the game."

And now with the Lions' fate hanging in the balance, it was a game of which Graby was very much a part.

The eager Graby gave Portland valuable minutes of the bench and was part of a second-half rout which blew open a seven-point Penn State lead at halftime into the 20-point range.

Graby, along with the other members of the Penn State frontcourt, held the Cavaliers in check with their aggressiveness, evident in Graby's picking up of two quick personal fouls when she entered the fray.

But on a night when everyone in blue and white was forced to step up her game a notch to make up for the loss of Garner, everyone did, as the Lions beat the Cavaliers, 82-69.

That includes Penn State's premier cardboard bus creator.

"Everyone played that game for (Andrea), she was our inspiration," Graby said. "I was just glad I got to do whatever I could to help win that game for her."