Alexa Philippou Close Alexa Philippou Women's Basketball Reporter Covers women's college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer  and  Ramona Shelburne Close Ramona Shelburne ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News May 7, 2026, 08:15 AM ET NEW YORK -- These days there are endless YouTube videos that will show you how to solve a Rubik's Cube. The key is memorizing a handful of basic sequences and then just following a layer-by-layer method. Done correctly, it looks surprisingly easy -- like some sort of magic trick. But complicated problems always look easy in hindsight, once they've been solved. All the frustration and self-doubt and angst felt while working through it fades into memory.…