KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Fans placed flowers, cards, orange-and-white balloons and basketballs at the foot of Pat Summitt’s statue on the Tennessee campus across the street from Thompson-Boling Arena.

Many fans walked by Pat Summitt Plaza and took pictures of the statue that shows Summitt standing and smiling rather than displaying her trademark glare.

Sandy Sexton of Louisville, Tennessee, says “we knew this day was coming, it was just way too soon.”

Sexton says she wanted to have daughters so they might play for Summitt, but she had sons.

Wearing an orange Lady Volunteers T-shirt, Sexton brought Easter lilies from her garden. She says the flowers are “just like Pat — homegrown.”

She adds she’s “probably going to cry all day. She was an outstanding Tennessean. Everything about her just brought inspiration to all of us.”