The half court line at Hilton Coliseum divides the women’s basketball team.Centers and power forwards on one side of the court. The guards on the other. This is how practice begins.But junior forward Tracy Gahan pays that invisible barrier no mind.She spends half her time working on her footwork and pump-faking shots in the paint. Then, she jogs to the other end and throws up some threes. Now imagine the same court, the same dividing line.On the one side, tentativeness and uncertainty. On the other, aggressiveness and confidence.Gahan once more runs from the former to the latter.Last year, Gahan averaged 6.7 points per game and 4.8 rebounds per game.This season, through Wednesday, she is averaging 13.3 ppg and 7.6 rpg.”I think she’s matured as a person,” ISU head coach Bill Fennelly said. “She’s just so unselfish. We told her this year, ‘we need you to score.'”Gahan responded the very first game.At Iowa, Gahan went for 26 points, a career high, and 14 rebounds.Gahan said the Hawkeyes game gave her confidence. But she has also learned to accept her new-found role.”I look to shoot a lot more than the past two years,” Gahan said.Finally, Fennelly can rest his voice. He yelled at her when she passed on an open three. And he yelled at her when she didn’t drive down an open lane. He said during Gahan’s freshman year he was really hard on her. “Harder on her than maybe anybody else,” Fennelly added.Fennelly said he believes she had lower statistics her freshmen and sophomore seasons because “she’s such an unselfish kid.”So it comes as no surprise to him that Gahan is producing more.”Tracy has always had that talent,” he said.Indeed, she has.In high school in McKinney, Texas, Gahan was named Class 4A Player of the Year. She was a two-time all-state pick. She was named all-district four times, including three MVP honors.But with the talent came the attempt to step on no one’s sneakers.Terry Gahan, Tracy’s mother, said in high school Tracy would stop shooting when she looked at the scoreboard and noticed her name dominating it.Terry said Tracy believed “the other kids need to be shooting.”So is Gahan unselfish almost to a fault?”Oh there’s no question,” Fennelly said. “She goes overboard to not step on anybody’s toes.””I’ve been told that,” Gahan said. She doesn’t believe she tries to please too much. “I guess I just don’t like it when people leave a bad taste in your mouth,” she said.”She is very reserved,” Terry Gahan said. “She’s a private kid.”But on the court, her talent and versatility present themselves without inhibition. She starts at power forward. She is the back-up to Megan Taylor at small forward. Last year she started at off-guard. As a freshman, Fennelly asked her to play point guard.”I really think teams look at our team and think that Tracy’s is one spot that they have a hard time deciding how to defend. Play off her, and she’ll shoot the three. Play up on her, she’ll go by you,” Fennelly said.And then there is the rebounding.Gahan stands 6 feet tall. No more. Maybe less.She openly admits she has a slender frame. And yet she is second on the team in rebounding this year, behind center Angie Welle, the preseason AP All-American.”She’s got a mean streak,” Fennelly said.Gahan doesn’t buy it.”It’s easier for me to fly in and get rebounds because I’m on the outside [on offense]. I can avoid those big people,” she said.Fennelly believes Gahan may be coming into her own. “She’s gone from a role player to a significant part of the team,” he said. “I think she can be a pro. I really do.”