tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27769447029140932492024-03-13T23:17:53.428-07:00Stanford FBC: Event ReportsReports and photos of Fast Break Club eventsJudy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comBlogger437125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-60119398965510445562024-03-11T11:18:00.000-07:002024-03-11T11:18:03.694-07:00Pac-12 tournament title evades team<p> </p><p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></strong></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_PNcfzmUpIqWHMXaC1BunEh4kiCewOQnYxweaG634jWAiQoBjroL6Isku-EVm5Mg1KCJcL9deDDOhgSA6ZWiAqgHRdZ4iSTtCYYjeMyZo0xVfmqtTW3aVKQ4rcHsR_oe66bR4N6Uxi2JVHCN4K9E5zbSspPlo2do6j6itjWZZHUXlYErhBKOImryi4lnK/s680/osu%20interview%20stanford.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="680" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_PNcfzmUpIqWHMXaC1BunEh4kiCewOQnYxweaG634jWAiQoBjroL6Isku-EVm5Mg1KCJcL9deDDOhgSA6ZWiAqgHRdZ4iSTtCYYjeMyZo0xVfmqtTW3aVKQ4rcHsR_oe66bR4N6Uxi2JVHCN4K9E5zbSspPlo2do6j6itjWZZHUXlYErhBKOImryi4lnK/w640-h360/osu%20interview%20stanford.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Backed by teammates and the band, Cam and Hannah are interviewed after the OSU win. (<i>Stanford Athletics)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span></strong><p></p><p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Entering the last-ever Pac-12
tournament on March 10, the Stanford women’s basketball team had hoped for
another championship, but it wasn’t to be.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Leading up to the final game in
Las Vegas, top seed Stanford had defeated Cal 71-57 on March 7 and Oregon State
66-57 on March 8. In both games, the Cardinal had to come from behind. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They couldn’t do it again against
second seed USC, losing 61-74, even though USC had survived a grueling double
overtime win against UCLA in the semi-finals. USC also beat Stanford 58-67 on
Feb. 2.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Except for the third quarter,
when both teams scored 13 points, USC outscored Stanford the rest of the way.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Aside from the final score, one
glaring difference was rebounds, an area in which Stanford usually excels. USC
had 48, Stanford 28. Free throws also favored USC, which made 11 of 12 to
Stanford’s four of seven.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Senior forward Cameron Brink led
the team with 19 points, 10 rebounds and all six of the team’s blocks. Junior
forward Kiki Iriafen was right behind her with 18 points and seven rebounds. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">No other Cardinal was in double
figures, but junior guard Elena Bosgana was close with 9 points. Five other
players scored.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">USC had nine 3’s to Stanford’s
seven. Cam had three of them, while Elena, grad guard Hannah Jump, junior
forward Brooke Demetre and sophomore guard Talana Lepolo each had one.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">After the game, Cam and Kiki were
among the five players named to the All- Tournament Team.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The tournament loss dropped Stanford
to No. 4 from No. 2 in AP’s March 11 national poll.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Here’s how the first two
tournament games unfolded;<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt;"></span></strong></p><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt;">Stanford wins final Pac-12 Battle of the Bay<o:p></o:p></span></strong><p></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cal</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">
</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">had Stanford on its heels throughout the first half
of the quarter-final game before the Cardinal pulled out the 71-57 win on March
7.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Seeded No. 8, Cal had defeated ninth
seed Washington State 65-44 the previous day, while No. 1 seed Stanford had the
bye.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Bears looked as if they might
continue in the victory column as they led 36-28 at the half. During that half
they launched a hail of 3’s and seemingly pulled down more rebounds.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Returning after the break, Stanford
outscored Cal in each of the next two quarters to win. The Cardinal also had
more rebounds for the game (50-44) and fewer fouls (10-18). All those fouls by
Cal led to an 11-point Stanford advantage at the free-throw line.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kiki led the way with 28 points,
18 rebounds and five assists for her 15<sup>th</sup> double-double of the
season. She was the first Stanford player with at least 25 points and 15
rebounds in a tournament game since Chiney Ogwumike, ’14, against USC in the
2014 semi-finals. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Elena tied her career high with
16 points and contributed eight rebounds and four assists.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cameron was right behind her with
15 points, 14 rebounds and the team’s only block. Her playing time was limited
to 27 minutes because she was in foul trouble with a total of four. The first
one was early in the first quarter when Cal was ahead 7-1.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Talana, the only other Cardinal
to score, had 12 points.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Elena with four and Talana with
three were the only Cardinal players to make 3’s. Usually sharp-shooting Hannah
was held scoreless.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt;">Stanford wins season awards<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Earlier in the week Stanford
dominated Pac-12 season awards. In a vote by the head coaches, Cam was named
Player and Defensive Player of the year. Kiki was named Most Improved Player. Head
coach Tara VanDerveer was named John R. Wooden Pac-12 Coach of the Year.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Both Cam and Kiki were all Pac-12
for the third year, while Hannah and Talana received honorable mention. Cam was
named to the conference’s all-defensive team. Forwards Nunu Agara and Courtney Ogden
received honorable mention for the all-freshman team.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">On top of that, Cam was named the
national Player of the Week on March. 5.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt;"></span></strong></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNMW0ap_NFdGC8lMInqyvty4JtED0qZ8F4TM5sBYHyz1HHWM5dvHBAKrtFTh6NEKTFWBS-XdI4s62_ObmcakncV_v0E5Bw_6OWo6WtT36lxtSliuqoIUsQC7lgX-9C1FiMOk-myge6Gi669JkELyDUGZbepRx9T8JLzQvLL0WP0sfBeMeEfkzubBqIKT3O/s1130/brooke,%20hannah%20osu%20stanford.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="1130" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNMW0ap_NFdGC8lMInqyvty4JtED0qZ8F4TM5sBYHyz1HHWM5dvHBAKrtFTh6NEKTFWBS-XdI4s62_ObmcakncV_v0E5Bw_6OWo6WtT36lxtSliuqoIUsQC7lgX-9C1FiMOk-myge6Gi669JkELyDUGZbepRx9T8JLzQvLL0WP0sfBeMeEfkzubBqIKT3O/w640-h302/brooke,%20hannah%20osu%20stanford.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brooke and Hannah celebrate during the OSU game. <i>(Stanford Athletics)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt;"><br />Same slow start, same victorious outcome<o:p></o:p></span></strong><p></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It was déjà vu in the first half
of the semi-final game against fourth-seeded Oregon State on March 8, and it
was déjà vu in the second half as Stanford surged ahead to win 66-57.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">OSU outscored Stanford 24-12 in
the first quarter, but Stanford had the edge in the second, leading to an
8-point deficit at the half. Stanford then had a huge third quarter, scoring 23
points to OSU’s 8. The Cardinal also prevailed in the fourth quarter to
advance.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In a turnaround from the previous
game, Hannah broke loose, leading her team with 20 points, thanks in large part
to her four 3’s.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cam almost had a triple-double
with 16 points, 12 rebounds and nine assists. Kiki was close behind with 14
points, nine rebounds and four assists. Both were in foul trouble with four
each.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Completing the list of those in
double figures, Brooke had 10 points. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Unlike the previous game, in
which only four players scored, this time seven players added points.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">One notable stat: Stanford had 25
assists and only seven turnovers, surpassing OSU in both categories. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Besides Hannah’s four 3’s, the
team’s other three 3’s came from Brooke with two and Cam with one.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">After the game, Cam and Hannah
were interviewed by a TV crew while their jubilant teammates, the band,
cheerleaders, Tree and Dollies celebrated.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Now the team awaits the
announcement of NCAA tournament seedings on March 17. Stanford is expected to
be a top four seed with the chance to host the two first rounds starting March
22.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Before that, the players can
focus on academics along with basketball. Winter quarter finals are March
18-22. Spring quarter classes start April 1.</span></strong> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-1337672782931686822024-03-03T08:06:00.000-08:002024-03-04T14:32:05.169-08:00Team returns from Oregon with two more wins<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXJtda2sa6miqA7gMuCVo_4LSp3I02QSIlg3FIaBXSGeLGc5etD_Uc2RS1zj0-y3hOxzUHP5t8o9LtCEAQs9O60ZK8Qbq79asIzQxf9bvlc-jono5-1AhyphenhyphennJaOQIsvdoySUdyWip_AhXK4_eXHiTD9NdfJ6iBKohDSo-M0ZOu8Vbskef4iL6rgnQMIFUG2/s942/cam%20ore.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="942" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXJtda2sa6miqA7gMuCVo_4LSp3I02QSIlg3FIaBXSGeLGc5etD_Uc2RS1zj0-y3hOxzUHP5t8o9LtCEAQs9O60ZK8Qbq79asIzQxf9bvlc-jono5-1AhyphenhyphennJaOQIsvdoySUdyWip_AhXK4_eXHiTD9NdfJ6iBKohDSo-M0ZOu8Vbskef4iL6rgnQMIFUG2/w640-h360/cam%20ore.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playing OSU, Cam snared 24 rebounds, tying a record set by Chiney Ogwumike in 2013. <i>(Stanford Athletics photo)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Stanford women’s basketball team ended its last-ever
regular season Pac-12 road trip by sweeping the Oregon schools. These two wins elevated Stanford to No. 2 from No. 3 in the March 4 AP poll. Senior forward Cameron Brink's dominant performance in both games led to her being named Pac-12 Player of the Week for the fifth time this season and 12th time in her career.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The trip started with a 67-63 win over Oregon State
on Feb. 29 and a 76-56 win over Oregon on March 2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the Oregon game, the Cardinal were without the
services of starting sophomore point guard Talana Lepolo, who reportedly was
held out with leg issues. She was replaced by redshirt sophomore guard Jzaniya
Harriel, who filled in nicely with 6 points and four assists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The crowd of nearly 7,000 saw senior forward Cameron
Brink lead the team with 18 points, 17 rebounds, five assists and three blocks
despite amassing four fouls that limited her playing time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Junior forward Kiki Iriafen was right behind her
with 16 points, eight rebounds and four assists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Grad guard Hannah Jump had 12 points in her 161<sup>st</sup>
game, a program record.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Junior forward Brooke Demetre also was in double
figures with 11 points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nine 3’s helped to boost the score with three by
Brooke, two each by Hannah and Jzaniya, and one each by junior guard Elena Bosgana
and freshman forward Courtney Ogden. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">During halftime of the Pac-12 Networks' Mary Murphy announced her season awards. Among them were Cam for
Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year and Kiki for Most Improved
Player.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanford
stands alone as Pac-12 season champs<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Playing in front of a highly partisan crowd of more
than 8,100 in Corvallis, the team pulled out its 67-63 victory over Oregon
State on Feb. 29, thereby assuring its claim to sole possession of the final
Pac-12 season championship. At the time, Stanford was No. 4 in the AP national
poll. Oregon State was No. 11.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“We’re greedy. We want it (the championship) all to
ourselves,” Cam said in an interview immediately after the game. The team had
assured itself of at least a share of the championship by defeating Arizona
State on Feb. 25.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the OSU game, Stanford was vastly aided by Cam’s 25
points and career-high 24 rebounds. Those rebounds tied the single game record
set by Chiney Ogwumike, ’14, on Feb. 23, 2013, against Oregon. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Kiki was the only other Cardinal in double figures
with 14 points. However, nine of the 10 players who got into the game added
points. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Four of them had 3’s: Elena, Talana, Courtney and freshman
forward Nunu Agara, each with one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">OSU’s only lead came when it scored the game’s first
basket. After that, Stanford forged ahead to a 15-7 first-quarter lead that
could have been greater except for some missed bunnies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Cam collected her fourth foul in the fourth quarter
and left the game for about a minute and a half. When she returned to action,
the crowd booed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The final three minutes were nail-biters. Stanford
was nursing a 2-point lead at the three-minute mark and held the same
advantage, 64-62, with less than a minute to go. That’s when Cam snared her 24th rebound.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Several seconds later, Talana made two crucial free
throws to expand the lead to 66-62.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">However, Cam fouled out with about seven seconds
left, but OSU made only one of its two free throws, leading to a 66-63 score.
Two seconds later, Kiki made one of two free throws to ice the win.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Now it’s on to the final Pac-12 tournament March
6-10 in Las Vegas. Because it has a first-round bye, Stanford will play its
first game at 2:30 p.m. March 7 against the winner of the game between the
eighth and ninth seeds on March 6.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If Stanford wins that one, it will play at 5 p.m.
March 8. The championship game is at 2 p.m. March 10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Selection Sunday for the NCAA tournament is at 5
p.m. March 17. Assuming Stanford gets a 1, 2, 3 or 4 seed, it will host the
first two rounds of the tournament, playing either March 22 or 23, with the
second round either March 24 or 25.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-17060962809894285492024-02-26T17:25:00.000-08:002024-02-27T17:12:28.219-08:00Team clinches at least a share of Pac-12 season title<p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRwrHLGrsf1N3zxtoKW3gsWM14sP2VYfhI2gsRzOIrVZcaljEHg7JcOtfAq11sr1sxcgpg7ctAJy-6e1Q9GgSfgrcQMs0cYh6BfFvwJ37AGzc5y5Zbvw9DHutuAhdLgatyMdV7sDYF35qSUUoVZ-Gej-3me2SlS_PMMMU-iOLQkn_yvB_PHWAWVSSzJnKN/s680/pac%2012%20champs%20stanford.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="680" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRwrHLGrsf1N3zxtoKW3gsWM14sP2VYfhI2gsRzOIrVZcaljEHg7JcOtfAq11sr1sxcgpg7ctAJy-6e1Q9GgSfgrcQMs0cYh6BfFvwJ37AGzc5y5Zbvw9DHutuAhdLgatyMdV7sDYF35qSUUoVZ-Gej-3me2SlS_PMMMU-iOLQkn_yvB_PHWAWVSSzJnKN/w640-h360/pac%2012%20champs%20stanford.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Players and staff display the trophy, banner, hats and T-shirts honoring the Pac-12 season championship.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After a disappointing 61-68 loss to Arizona without
senior forward Cameron Brink on Feb. 23, she and her teammates responded by
defeating Arizona State 81-67 on Feb. 25 in the last-ever Pac-12 home game.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Afterward, as everyone awaited the start of the
Senior Day ceremony to honor Cam and grad guard Hannah Jump, the videoboard
showed the last few minutes of the USC-Utah game. Utah won, igniting a
celebration because it meant that Stanford had clinched at least a share of the
Pac-12 regular season title, its 27th.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nevertheless, out came the championship T-shirts,
hats, trophy and banner. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The weekend’s mixed results dropped Stanford to No.
4 from No. 3 in AP’s Feb. 26 national poll.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Although Cam was back in action to start the game,
sophomore guard Talana Lepolo was in street clothes. It later was reported that
she has had a knee problem and needed to take some time off.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Jzaniya
replaces Talana<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Redshirt sophomore guard Jzaniya Harriel started in
her place as point guard and did well, becoming one of five Cardinal players in
double figures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Junior forward Kiki Iriafen led the way with 22
points plus 20 rebounds and four assists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Cam added 14 points, nine rebounds and led the team
in both assists with seven and blocks with five.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Jzaniya was next with 12 points. Hannah had 11, as
did freshman forward Nunu Agara.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The team had eight 3’s, with four by Jzaniya, three
by Hannah and one by junior forward Brooke Demetre, who also had eight rebounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Before the game started, head coach Tara VanDerveer
gave flowers to ASU’s seniors, and the male practice players were introduced.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Early in the first quarter, the two Stanford
honorees, Cam and Hannah, showed their signature moves. Hannah lofted a trey,
and then Cam blocked an ASU shot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">ASU
leads after one quarter, but that was it<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The first quarter ended with a 13-15 lead for ASU,
but Stanford finished on top in the next three quarters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">During the third quarter, the two senior
cheerleaders were honored.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYnyWm7cWX6aP275NZbOs5uoTH7IS7mT_QGQzJVBYtFIP_pOBmCNDTie9qecPYumgr6LLpT5ssXjopvnWBom349Z6MBvKsMBJlF4_igHg1Lnur6ft6ygF4yjw2FNOWC7DKC5gS2ZWWH5_BFUtD2-uvclnpAXPEAsyRPo_YV9BuK4VlDXlXu0MkjYzZMfKM" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1464" data-original-width="975" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYnyWm7cWX6aP275NZbOs5uoTH7IS7mT_QGQzJVBYtFIP_pOBmCNDTie9qecPYumgr6LLpT5ssXjopvnWBom349Z6MBvKsMBJlF4_igHg1Lnur6ft6ygF4yjw2FNOWC7DKC5gS2ZWWH5_BFUtD2-uvclnpAXPEAsyRPo_YV9BuK4VlDXlXu0MkjYzZMfKM=w427-h640" width="427" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Senior Day honorees Cam and Hannah celebrate a teammate's accomplishment.</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Senior Day ceremony began with the introduction of Cam, her parents and godmother, Sonya Curry, mother of Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry. She and Cam's mother were college roommates. Both spoke about Cam. Brooke represented the team in saluting her.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hannah was accompanied by her parents and aunt, who
had flown from the UK to join the festivities. Her father and Talana did the
honors in saluting her.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In both cases, announcer Betty Ann Hagenau ticked
off their many accomplishments.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Closing the emotional ceremony, Tara said the team
has a chance to be the No. 1 seed in the upcoming Pac-12 tournament and hopes
to host the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Team
misses Cam in loss to Arizona<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The 61-68 upset loss to Arizona at home on Feb. 23 began
with a feeling of unease. Cam was nowhere to be seen during warmups. It later
was reported that she was ill.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Besides missing her offensive and defensive prowess,
her teammates seemed to miss the energy and enthusiasm she brings to the game.
They didn’t seem to smile and joke as much during warmups.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Still, they started well enough, ending the first
quarter with a 17-9 lead. Late in the quarter, Kiki headed to the locker room
with blood on her white leg wrap. She returned during the break and went back
into action with no leg wrap as the second quarter began. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanford led at the end of both the second and third
quarters. The latter ended well with an 8-point scoring spree in the final
minute and 15 seconds. Kiki accounted for 6 of those points with 2 by Brooke.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Fourth
quarter ends badly<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Therefore, the team seemed to have the game well in
hand as the fourth quarter began. Then the wheels started to come off. Arizona
steadily ate into its host’s lead, outscoring the Cardinal 31-16 in the quarter
to cement the win.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Arizona accomplished this despite having only seven
available players, but they continually disrupted Stanford on defense, leading
to 18 Stanford turnovers while having only nine of their own.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Kiki led her team with 21 points plus 15 rebounds, three
blocks, four assists and a steal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Brooke
gets starting nod<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Joining the starting lineup in Cam’s place, Brooke
contributed 15 points, while Hannah had 13, thanks in part to her 3 3’s. Brooke
also had a 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Junior guard Elena Bosgana started as usual, but
played only three minutes and spent the rest of the game on the bench.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In recognition of Black History Month, the
seven-member Stanford Gospel Choir sang the national anthem after a trumpet
intro by one of its members. The choir then sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Later the video board displayed photos and listed
the accomplishments of some of Stanford’s most distinguished Black graduates.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Another focus of the game recognized the Stanford
Organ Transplant Program, introducing two leaders of the program and a woman
who received both a liver and kidney transplant at Stanford.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">At halftime, fans who received the free Rec Day
T-shirts convened on the court for a group Zumba session.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanford will wrap up its final Pac-12 regular
season by visiting Oregon State at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 29, and Oregon at 2
p.m. Saturday, March 2. Pac-12 Networks will televise both games.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The final Pac-12 tournament is March 6-10 in Las
Vegas.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Photos by isiphotos.com</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-41367991011131875912024-02-17T21:49:00.000-08:002024-02-17T21:49:40.875-08:00Cardinal coast over Cal 84-49<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPF9B3sDBShlNvaedRpVR7pYpE66cr1LDH_WmIv62WJglWVjDLmFA-7_76fSn9M5Hg9e-wElhKf2r_069UcND4C1SXuazUUGpJx2gc0AXEvtM51YQF1c2PMgluwy2DzJZsv7SekyWOBUaz7IYirouglUvjZsRui_L8MbcDKtxJxYVHpPrTpCz11nQmTJVH/s680/GGjy2RsXIAEmKof.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPF9B3sDBShlNvaedRpVR7pYpE66cr1LDH_WmIv62WJglWVjDLmFA-7_76fSn9M5Hg9e-wElhKf2r_069UcND4C1SXuazUUGpJx2gc0AXEvtM51YQF1c2PMgluwy2DzJZsv7SekyWOBUaz7IYirouglUvjZsRui_L8MbcDKtxJxYVHpPrTpCz11nQmTJVH/w640-h640/GGjy2RsXIAEmKof.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kiki celebrates a teammate's accomplishment.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It didn’t take long for the Stanford women’s
basketball team to overwhelm the visiting Cal Bears and close out the Feb. 16
game with an 84-49 victory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cal showed some resistance in the first quarter with
two lead changes and one tie, but Stanford ended it by leading 22-16. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cal didn’t score until nearly seven minutes had
elapsed in the second quarter, when it put up a trey. The Bears managed only 5
points altogether in that quarter, while Stanford posted 18.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It was all Stanford after that, leading to the
lopsided 35-point win.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Five Cardinal players scored in double figures, led
by junior forward Kiki Iriafen with 23points plus 11 rebounds. Grad guard
Hannah Jump and senior forward Cameron Brink both had 14 points, and Cam had
four of her trademark blocks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuqY31c4xnzwNSnb1XykmpvOPc17ZvYaBg1Ekk0Sy8CQEnSg6UmGxkJqCo7KCNqnhhT2LD95PKXyfNJtOi05vKL8R3cpKSQJ1pDFCJN-4MZ2tM4W4akk3RWdzyXVu__AaBILhUFPrXoHxQRh2gPxn0ukqvkttchwhY1THV5xMXlNaJGlNAJ9MK6fhs2EcT/s680/elena%20cal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="544" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuqY31c4xnzwNSnb1XykmpvOPc17ZvYaBg1Ekk0Sy8CQEnSg6UmGxkJqCo7KCNqnhhT2LD95PKXyfNJtOi05vKL8R3cpKSQJ1pDFCJN-4MZ2tM4W4akk3RWdzyXVu__AaBILhUFPrXoHxQRh2gPxn0ukqvkttchwhY1THV5xMXlNaJGlNAJ9MK6fhs2EcT/w320-h400/elena%20cal.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elena was one of five players in double figures.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Joining them in double figures were junior guard
Elena Bosgana with 12 points and junior forward Brooke Demetre with 11.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brooke had three of the team’s five 3’s. Hannah and
Elena each had one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanford bested Cal in nearly every statistical
category, including steals, 6-0. Redshirt sophomore Jzaniya Harriel had three
of those steals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Since it was Breast Cancer Awareness Day, pink was
seen throughout Maples, both among the 4,604 fans in the stands and the
personnel on the court. The Cal players were in pink, and the Stanford players’
white uniforms had pink accents. Some players sported pink hair ribbons and pink nail polish. Even the refs had pink whistles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Perhaps because it was a holiday weekend with
Presidents Day on Feb. 19, the band, cheerleaders, Dollies, Tree and even the
emcee weren’t there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The third quarter had some drama, starting about two
minutes in when Cam got her third foul, a call that was roundly booed. Head
coach Tara VanDerveer requested an official review, but when the play stood as
called, Stanford was charged a timeout.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fans got a scare with less than three minutes to go
in the quarter when Kiki was hurt and hopped to the bench. Trainer Katelin
Knox tended to her, and she returned to action early in the fourth quarter. In
a post-game interview, Kiki said it was merely a muscle cramp. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This game and others in the Pac-12 Conference gave
Stanford a two-game lead with four games left.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Coming up next, Arizona visits at 7 p.m. Feb. 23,
followed by Arizona State at noon Feb. 25, Senior Day. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A trip to Oregon State at 7 p.m. Feb. 29 and Oregon
at 2 p.m. March 2 will close out the final Pac-12 regular season. Pac-12
Networks will air all four games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanford
Athletics photos<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-80168251885264739572024-02-12T21:29:00.000-08:002024-02-12T21:29:44.375-08:00Stqnford moves up to No. 3 after 2 more wins<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "ff-meta-serif-web-pro","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsD_GaUrcLJV1TUkMzpVlivVjt3WRJlOX3GN5Fu-9fHuu5A14RU3Z3fjjpo8-IcnoWll1aADw4fkt0YseJ9RAMfojgRGcdOzgI6rnMl3xw2FOJmsour60vw3K6I93tDFOh6RDbxnNXRft0qSORdkljxpvhyd2lTDlzqRDjgKQ1MRcwNOzwalZNAS3j4iq1/s942/cam%20wsu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="942" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsD_GaUrcLJV1TUkMzpVlivVjt3WRJlOX3GN5Fu-9fHuu5A14RU3Z3fjjpo8-IcnoWll1aADw4fkt0YseJ9RAMfojgRGcdOzgI6rnMl3xw2FOJmsour60vw3K6I93tDFOh6RDbxnNXRft0qSORdkljxpvhyd2lTDlzqRDjgKQ1MRcwNOzwalZNAS3j4iq1/w640-h360/cam%20wsu.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cam tries to steal the ball from WSU's Eleanora Villa. <i>(Dean Hare/WSU PhotoServices)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "ff-meta-serif-web-pro","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Stanford women’s basketball team returned from the Evergreen State with two
more wins: 63-59 in overtime at Washington on Feb. 9 and 73-58 at Washington
State on Feb. 11.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">These
two wins, combined with other Pac-12 and national results, vaulted the Cardinal
into first place in the conference and No. 3 in the Feb. 12 AP poll.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Team prevails in
overtime at Washington</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It
took the season’s first overtime for Stanford to defeat a gritty Washington
team 63-59 in Seattle on Feb. 9.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">With
the first quarter ending with Stanford up 11-5, it looked as if this would be a
cakewalk. The second quarter continued that view as the Stanford defense forced
the Huskies into several shot-clock violations. When the buzzer sounded,
Stanford still had a 6-point lead as both teams scored just 11 points.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
lead swelled to 8 points in the third, but things turned around in the fourth
quarter. Washington outscored Stanford by 8 points, leading to a 50-50 tie and
sending the game into overtime.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Stanford
scored just enough in OT to eke out the 4-point win, resulting in a sigh of
relief for Cardinal fans among the 4,454 people at the game and for those
watching at home.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Cameron pours in
22 points</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Once
again, senior forward Cameron Brink led the scoring with 22 points plus nine
rebounds, four assists, six blocks and a steal.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">However,
junior forward Kiki Iriafen, her usually high-scoring teammate, managed only 9
points plus nine rebounds. She fouled out about halfway through the OT and had
six of the team’s 18 turnovers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
next-highest scorer for Stanford was freshman forward Courtney Ogden, who came
off the bench to add 11 points and five rebounds. Sophomore guard Talana Lepolo
was the other Cardinal in double figures with 10 points, thanks to three of the
team’s seven 3’s.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Courtney,
junior guard Elena Bosgana, junior forward Brooke Demetre and grad guard Hannah
Jump had the others. It wasn’t Hannah’s best game. She played all 45 minutes
but had only that trey for her scoring. A tough defender, she also had four
fouls.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Slow start
against WSU</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hoping
for its first-ever victory over Stanford on Feb. 11, Washington State had a
7-point lead after the first quarter and ceded Stanford only a 3-point edge at
the half in front of 1,304 people in Pullman.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It
outscored the Cardinal by a point in the third quarter, cutting the visitors’
advantage to just 2 points, but the fourth quarter told a different story.
Stanford held WSU to just 7 points while scoring 20 points of its own to seal
the 73-58 win.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Once
again Cam was the team leader. She scored 21 points to go with 11 rebounds,
five assists, five steals and two blocks with only one foul.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This
time, though, her usually reliable teammates stepped up big time. Hannah had 20
points, thanks in large part to her four 3’s, plus four assists and a steal.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Kiki
was next in the double-figure category with 17 points, 14 rebounds and five
assists.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For
the game, Stanford shot 49.2 percent vs. WSU’s 44 percent.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Stanford
also had eight 3’s, one more than WSU. Stanford’s came courtesy of Hannah’s
four, along with two by Cam, and one each by Talana and Courtney.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Next
up is a visit by Cal at 7 p.m. Feb. 16. The team then has a week off before
hosting Arizona at 7 p.m. Feb. 23 and Arizona State at noon Feb. 25, Senior
Day. Pac-12 Networks will air all three games.</span></p><br /><p></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-34362682113861344462024-02-06T20:50:00.000-08:002024-02-06T20:50:50.592-08:00Split decision with SoCal teams<p> </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhu8LBkFrSGTRNCZxi0lEhKq314IQ3spI56x56txZFVA1ipLqqB8qPuRVqhN5hif_Rh16gRd96ZXnpFiQoyCQBbIla0pCHl4HA2F2V8hkJdudBBhOj23v16A5HG4Cb7svrHyvQ3VnrVuSbxSAT-w7weyxPcsnXxLow6zd_tWjm_SgX7qioUwxaz-oSowECb" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="960" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhu8LBkFrSGTRNCZxi0lEhKq314IQ3spI56x56txZFVA1ipLqqB8qPuRVqhN5hif_Rh16gRd96ZXnpFiQoyCQBbIla0pCHl4HA2F2V8hkJdudBBhOj23v16A5HG4Cb7svrHyvQ3VnrVuSbxSAT-w7weyxPcsnXxLow6zd_tWjm_SgX7qioUwxaz-oSowECb=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table>Cam, Hannah and Kiki celebrate during the UCLA game. <i>(Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)</i><p></p><p><span style="color: #767676; font-family: National, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After a disappointing 58-67 loss to USC on Feb. 2,
the Stanford women’s basketball team came roaring back to defeat UCLA 80-60 on
Feb. 4, both at home.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The weekend’s games dropped Stanford to No. 6 from
No. 4 in the Feb. 5 AP poll. USC rose to 10 from 15, and UCLA dropped to 9 from
7.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">While Stanford had its full contingent of 12
players, UCLA had only eight of its 12 players available. Among the missing was
6’7” Lauren Betts, who transferred to UCLA from Stanford after last season. She
reportedly was dealing with an undisclosed medical issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Since it was Woman and Girls in Sports Day, several
women’s teams set up activities in the concourses before the game. The 2023 national
champion women’s rowing team was honored during the second quarter, and the
current women’s gymnastics team tossed T-shirts to the crowd during the third
quarter. It was the day before the start of its season.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">During their warmups, the Cardinal players wore T-shirts reading “Play for Kay,” a reference to the late North Carolina State coach, Kay Yow, who died of breast cancer. Their white uniforms had pink accents.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The national anthem was sung by the youngsters of
i-Sing of Silicon Valley, who were well received by the near-capacity crowd of
7,207 people who had braved the stormy weather.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Team
starts strong, doesn’t look back<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanford came out of the gate with high energy,
leading 9-2 after just under 2 minutes
into the game. By the end of the first quarter, the lead had ballooned to
21-12. The Bruins’ Charisma Osborne scored 10 of their points.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the meantime, all five Cardinal starters had
scored while not committing any fouls. However, Stanford had four turnovers,
leading to 17 for the game.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the second quarter, UCLA took 2 ½ minutes to
score 2 points, both from the free-throw line. It wasn’t until the quarter was
halfway over that UCLA had a bucket.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Grad student guard Hannah Jump was on the exercise
bike for a while during that quarter but soon returned to action.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">She was one of three Stanford players in double
figures with 10 points, thanks to two 3’s and some nifty layups.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Cameron,
Kiki combine for 37 points<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Senior forward Cameron Brink led the team with 19
points, 19 rebounds and seven blocks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Junior forward Kiki Iriafen was right behind her
with 18 points, seven rebounds and a block.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Freshman forward Nunu Agara added 9 points and four
rebounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Besides the two 3’s by Hannah, redshirt sophomore
guard Jzaniya Harriel had two of her own, and junior forward Brooke Demetre had
one.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanford outscored UCLA in the first three quarters.
UCLA had 3 more in the fourth, but by then it was too late.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For the game, Stanford shot a sizzling 63.5 percent,
compared with UCLA’s 29.4 percent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Kate
praises Talana<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The post-game Behind the Bench started with
associate head coach Kate Paye and sophomore point guard Talana Lepolo. Kate had
high praise for her, saying, “There’s no doubt that Talana does so much for our
team. … She’s an absolute warrior.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As for the win, Kate said, “We really needed it. …
We didn’t like the way things turned out Friday.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">After her post-game
press conference, head coach Tara VanDerveer came out and praised the team’s
younger players. She also said that Stanford hopes to host first and second
rounds of the NCAA tournament. That honor goes to the four top seeds in each of
the four regional brackets.</span></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpgL1TbSjaoYjEf2I511_KDz8580nP7rH0O63-F5Rv3tKR4RC5newmEsaPVHUBdBDxxMv4YaSlxN5VSZKAKjR9cqVF3cqmViXIhPMahnjD1qJyfTBmxBUG7MCE6whZhdCHKjJj4N9krmIVa-i3n1qrlMyrY3F9lAEOONsNIez4NH1WU1UYV8o7cO3i5igy" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="960" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpgL1TbSjaoYjEf2I511_KDz8580nP7rH0O63-F5Rv3tKR4RC5newmEsaPVHUBdBDxxMv4YaSlxN5VSZKAKjR9cqVF3cqmViXIhPMahnjD1qJyfTBmxBUG7MCE6whZhdCHKjJj4N9krmIVa-i3n1qrlMyrY3F9lAEOONsNIez4NH1WU1UYV8o7cO3i5igy=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cam reacts to a call during the USC game. JuJu Watkins is No. 12. <i>(Santiago Mejia/The Chronicle)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">USC’s
frosh phenom pours in 51 points<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The team’s 58-67 loss to USC on Feb. 2 can be
attributed mainly to one player -- frosh phenom JuJu Watkins, who scored 51
points in 34 minutes, more than half of her team’s total.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Cardinal fans can only mourn the day she chose USC
over Stanford. She’s from LA, so maybe she wanted to play close to home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It didn’t help that Stanford’s two best players, Cam
and Kiki, faced physical defense. Still, Cam wound up with 19 points, 15
rebounds and eight blocks, and Kiki had 16 points and nine rebounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hannah was the only other Cardinal in double figures
with 10 points. She had two of the team’s four 3’s. Junior guard Elena Bosgana had
the other two, her only scoring.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Three
USC players foul out<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Back to the defense: Three USC players fouled out. In all, USC had 22
fouls, Stanford 19. Talana fouled out with only seconds to go in the fourth
quarter after scoring only 2 points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Some fans seemed unhappy with the officiating, often
accompanying calls with boos. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The game began on a celebratory note with Chef Joe,
assistant director/executive chef Stanford Athletics, receiving a framed
honorary jersey for his contributions to the well-being of Cardinal athletes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Sea
of red for Cardinal introductions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When the Stanford starters were introduced in the
darkened arena, fans greeted them by waving red glow sticks that were given
away in the concourses before the game.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanford outscored USC in the first and fourth
quarters, and ended the second in a tie, but USC had a 10-point advantage in
the third.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">During a timeout in the second quarter, Jess Smith
was introduced. She was recently named president of the WNBA expansion team
coming to the Bay Area and beginning play in 2025. The team is owned by the
Golden State Warriors and will use its Oakland practice facility and play at
Chase Center in San Francisco.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Halftime was highlighted by the Los Altos Dance
Academy. The young girls, most of them in glittery gold outfits, wowed the
crowd of 5,371 with their routines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The team next takes to the road to face Washington
at 7 p.m. Feb. 9 and Washington State at
1 p.m. Feb. 11. Pac-12 Networks will air both games.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-24903527259565296312024-01-29T22:26:00.000-08:002024-01-29T22:26:48.490-08:00Dynamic duo fuels two desert wins<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Stanford women’s basketball team finished its
stint in the desert with decisive wins over Arizona State, 80-50, on Jan. 26
and Arizona, 96-64, on Jan. 28.These two wins vaulted Stanford to No. 4 from
No. 6 in the Jan. 29 AP poll.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Senior forward Cameron Brink and junior forward Kiki
Iriafen led the scoring in both games. They teamed up to add 20 and 27 points,
respectively, against Arizona State and 25 and 21 points, respectively, against
Arizona. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Cam
returns to play against ASU<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Arizona State game marked Cam's return after missing the most of the Oregon game and all of the Oregon State game with a lower left leg injury the previous weekend<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In addition to their points against ASU, Cam and
Kiki led the team in rebounds, 16 and 14, respectively. If that weren’t enough,
Cam had three blocks, Kiki one. Redshirt sophomore Jzaniya Harriel joined the
block party with two of her own. In all, the team had seven blocks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Graduate student guard Hannah Jump got her shooting
touch back, scoring 13 points with three of the team’s six 3’s. Junior guard Elena
Bosgana, sophomore guard Talana Lepolo and freshman forward Courtney Ogden had
the other three. Talana also had seven of the team’s impressive 24 assists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanford dominated the stat sheet in all categories,
including rebounds, 49-33. Further evidence of the team’s strong defense was
seen in its eight steals, including three each by Kiki and junior forward Brooke
Demetre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">All 12 players got into the action. Courtney had to
go to the bench for a while after she suffered a bloody nose late in the first
quarter. One of Cam’s four fouls was a technical assessed against her about
halfway through the second quarter when the refs determined she had thrown the
ball at her defender after scoring.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Playing
Arizona, Cam and Kiki team up again<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the 96-64 win over Arizona on Jan. 28, Cam had 19
rebounds to go with her 25 points. Kiki was close to a double-double with nine
rebounds to go with her 21 points. She played only about seven minutes in the
first quarter because of fouls. Overall, she was limited to just 19 minutes,
but she made the most of them in front of the loud crowd of 7,692.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Retaining her shooting touch, Hannah had three of
her four 3’s in the first quarter, leading to 15 points overall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Jzaniya also was in double figures with 14,
including two more of the team’s seven 3’s. Cam had the other trey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Wildcats
play tough despite shortened roster<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Despite having only seven available players, the
Wildcats played tough defense, especially when it came to their 10 steals. That
defense is part of the reason why Stanford had 16 turnovers, while Arizona had
12. On the other hand, Stanford had 19 assists, six of them from Talana.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">With Stanford outscoring Arizona in every quarter,
no one played the whole game. Talana had the most time with 33 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanford dominated Arizona in all the positive
stats, especially rebounds, 49-21.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">These two wins helped the Cardinal to maintain their
top spot in Pac-12 standings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Coming up next, the team returns home for two potentially
tough games, hosting USC at 7 p.m. Feb. 2 and UCLA at 1 p.m. Feb. 4. Pac-12
Networks will air the USC game. ESPN2 will show the UCLA game.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In case of rain, newly revised rules allow umbrellas in Maples if they’re small enough to fit into the clear bags.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-77663539208440034632024-01-23T10:04:00.000-08:002024-01-23T10:05:02.596-08:00Tara on top after weekend's games<p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Aj_Wzms1gtTdugDv9WisDZgtehoX-ZlGxpECHyFBcOypHUZPZdJp7sspyUfEN3XdbLXsq5frKPUj_AVImqt2y3PU1mNPla316Td08DwHuxCsVC8C5lbRv2AZdLN4rpMjdvavPfJtQlXcHLI68tjTKbI0U2w3ytiTe_S6PEAQU0NChYpgI90nBATpb1lF/s942/osu%20team%20and%20alums%20stanford.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="942" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Aj_Wzms1gtTdugDv9WisDZgtehoX-ZlGxpECHyFBcOypHUZPZdJp7sspyUfEN3XdbLXsq5frKPUj_AVImqt2y3PU1mNPla316Td08DwHuxCsVC8C5lbRv2AZdLN4rpMjdvavPfJtQlXcHLI68tjTKbI0U2w3ytiTe_S6PEAQU0NChYpgI90nBATpb1lF/w640-h360/osu%20team%20and%20alums%20stanford.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Alums join the team and staff in honoring Tara. </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">(Stanford Athletics)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It rained outside over the weekend, but inside Maples
the Stanford women’s basketball team reigned, defeating Oregon State 65-56 on
Jan. 21 and Oregon 88-63 on Jan. 19.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Thus head coach Tara VanDerveer’s career record vaulted
to 1,203 wins, surpassing former Duke men’s coach Mike Krzyzewski to become the
all-time winningest college basketball coach for either men or women. She
surely would have beaten the record much sooner if she hadn’t taken a year off
to coach the U.S. women’s team to an Olympics victory in 1996. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It wasn’t an easy game, especially since senior
forward Cameron Brink was out after injuring her left leg in the Oregon game.
However, she seemed to be in good spirits and walking without a limp. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Kiki
fills the void and then some<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Junior forward Kiki Iriafen stepped up in her place,
scoring a career-high 36 points, more than half of the team’s total. She also
had a game-high 12 rebounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Six of Kiki’s points came from the two 3’s she made
late in the third quarter. They were the first of her career.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sophomore point guard Talana Lepolo also had two 3’s
in her total of 14 points, along with six assists, one steal and only one turnover. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The team’s other two 3’s came from junior forward
Brooke Demetre, contributing to her 10-point total. She started in place of Cameron.
This was the first time the starting lineup had changed all season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Fans in the near-capacity crowd of 7,022 noted
tenacious defense by redshirt sophomore guard Jzaniya Harriel, who had three of
the team’s seven steals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The game started slowly with neither team finding
its shooting touch. Thus the first quarter ended with a 10-10 tie, one of six
ties in the game along with eight lead changes. Stanford finished the next
three quarters on the plus side, leading to the 9-point victory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The weekend wins moved Stanford up to No. 6 from No.
8 in the Jan. 22 AP poll. They also led to ESPN naming Kiki and Tara Player and
Coach of the Week, respectively. The Pac-12 named Kiki its Player of the Week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Alums
return to honor their coach<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Among the crowd were a number of former Stanford
players, who were there to honor Tara. Some of them were with their children
and spouses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Afterward, a ceremony complete with showers of gold
confetti commemorated Tara’s accomplishments. Ros Gold-Onwude, ’10, served as
emcee. She noted that everyone was there to honor the “historic achievement of
our coach. … She’s so humble, that’s why they brought me here.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ros sat on a center court podium in front of lighted
letters “1203” to question fellow alums Chiney Ogwumike, ’14, and Jennifer
Azzi, ’90, who was one of Tara’s earliest recruits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Players, coaches, staff and alums all received
T-shirts reading “1,202 ... And One.” Tara also got a commemorative jacket
and jersey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A video featured tributes from such people as Billie
Jean King, Warriors coach Steve Kerr, Hoover Institute director Condoleezza
Rice. Coach K himself, Chiney and her sister Nneka, ’12, South Carolina head
coach Dawn Staley and Lisa Leslie. Like Jennifer, Dawn and Lisa were on the
1996 Olympic team that Tara coached to a gold medal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As the current team listened from the bench, Tara
began her remarks by thanking everyone for being there and noting that her
record couldn’t have been possible without so many great players and coaches at
a great university. “I am very overwhelmed,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Team
registers win over Oregon despite loss of Cameron<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The 88-63 victory over Oregon on Jan. 19 was marred
by a left leg injury to Cameron during the latter half of the first quarter.
Limping, she was helped off the court and to the locker room after contributing
6 points, two rebounds, an assist and a steal in six minutes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">At that point, her team led 20-2 after holding the
Ducks scoreless before then. She walked slowly to the bench a few minutes later
as the crowd of 4,556, including the band, Tree, cheerleaders and Dollies,
cheered. She then spent some time watching the game from an exercise
bike.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAksKniEkKDSiQAUUl2pfpvtM2k-0pz21qZyciPtYK0uNi0S7ZDejJwjgzsb0JRbOKRvmJiJzCE8ODnEtwiSEmfxA9idjK3G3IzNM3YOh87KlgCBvdMTaoEX1l92OOs16yWQl_YBx10bE9TM1_24J1ZxcNWd06itlx5OhVj4iDre5LKwqycTPLFesjZYt2/s1130/oregon%20cam%20kiki.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="1130" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAksKniEkKDSiQAUUl2pfpvtM2k-0pz21qZyciPtYK0uNi0S7ZDejJwjgzsb0JRbOKRvmJiJzCE8ODnEtwiSEmfxA9idjK3G3IzNM3YOh87KlgCBvdMTaoEX1l92OOs16yWQl_YBx10bE9TM1_24J1ZxcNWd06itlx5OhVj4iDre5LKwqycTPLFesjZYt2/w640-h360/oregon%20cam%20kiki.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cameron and Kiki lift Tara after the Oregon win tied her for all-time best. (<i>(</i><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><i>Bob Drebin isiphotos.com)</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">She was missing at the start of the third quarter.
When she returned later in the quarter, there was a brace on her leg. It didn’t
seem to hinder her after the game when Kiki and she hoisted Tara to celebrate
her tying Coach K’s record.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">During the national anthem, which was whistled by
Taein Kim to a band recording, the on-court camera showed Cam whistling along
with her. As the team returned to its warm ups, she high-fived the little girl.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Courtney
misses her third game because of injury<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Another missing piece of the roster was freshman
forward Courtney Ogden, who didn’t play in the Utah and Colorado games the previous
weekend because of an injury. She warmed up with the team and sat on the bench
for this game, but when she returned after halftime, she was in sweats. She did
play briefly in the Oregon State game.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Despite missing those two players, the rest of the
team rallied with nine players scoring, five of them in double figures. They
were led by Kiki, who had 21 points, 15 rebounds and two emphatic blocks before
fouling out late in the fourth quarter. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Talana tallied 13 points plus eight assists and
three rebounds with only one turnover. Freshman forward Nunu Agara had 12
points, junior guard Elena Bosgana 11 and Brooke 10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Talana and Elena each had three of the team’s 10
3’s. Graduate guard Hannah Jump and Jzaniya each had two. To most of the crowd,
it appeared that Nunu had three 3’s, but the box score shows no 3’s for her.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanford led throughout the game, several times by
more than 20 points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Coming up next is a trip to the desert to play Arizona
State at 5 p.m. Pacific Time on Jan. 26 and Arizona at 11 a.m. Pacific Time on
Jan. 28. Pac-12 Networks will show both games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-17572234916471403382024-01-14T22:11:00.000-08:002024-01-14T22:11:10.990-08:00Split decision in snowy mountains<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYs3x4rDunC5cv7A1PzHLluy0r5GVxqLH1dqkwF6l-HfHUkkbq3TqgN_38hIFlrNB6JP_dPD3uog7X4J1J64TfW8nywQx-Mcc2syE3BSSyxcxISk42DknIxIsUiNbjo5SLPHFZ2071EO5oUTsoS6e5nNWFWRF6cIoexqBr9PCo44y4zfc0aTUwwxvGychb/s680/kiki%20stanford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="544" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYs3x4rDunC5cv7A1PzHLluy0r5GVxqLH1dqkwF6l-HfHUkkbq3TqgN_38hIFlrNB6JP_dPD3uog7X4J1J64TfW8nywQx-Mcc2syE3BSSyxcxISk42DknIxIsUiNbjo5SLPHFZ2071EO5oUTsoS6e5nNWFWRF6cIoexqBr9PCo44y4zfc0aTUwwxvGychb/w512-h640/kiki%20stanford.jpg" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kiki led the team with a two-game total of 44 points. <i>(Stanford Athletics)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Playing the mountain teams for the only time this
season, the No. 8 (as of Jan. 8) Stanford women’s basketball team emerged with
a 66-64 win over No. 19 Utah on Jan. 12 and a 59-71 loss to No. 5 Colorado on
Jan. 14.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Both games were played at high elevations: 4,265
feet in Salt Lake City and 5,430 in Boulder. It was cold, too. When the
Colorado game started at noon Mountain Time, it was -3 degrees, the TV
announcers said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanford’s shooting was somewhat cold, too, only 33.9
percent, compared with Colorado’s 41.7 percent. Moreover, the Buffaloes had quick hands, making 11 steals, including three in a row in the first quarter, while
Stanford had only three for the game.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Turnovers
hurt<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Turnovers were costly, with 18 by the Cardinal and
11 by the host team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Things looked promising at first with Stanford
surging to an 8-point lead about halfway through the first quarter, but
Colorado finished the quarter with a 1-point lead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The fourth quarter began with a 17-point Colorado lead.
Stanford refused to give up and actually outscored the Buffaloes 18-13, but it
was too little too late.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Junior forward Kiki Iriafen led the Cardinal with a
double-double, 19 points and 17 rebounds. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cameron
snares 1,000<sup>th</sup> rebound<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Senior forward Cameron Brink also had a
double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds despite being hampered by four
fouls. She recorded the 1,000<sup>th</sup> rebound of her career early in the
third quarter and finished the game with four blocks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The only other Cardinal in double figures was junior
forward Brooke Demetre with 12 points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Her points came from four of the team’s nine 3’s.
Cameron and redshirt sophomore guard Jzaniya Harriel each chipped in two.
Graduate guard Hannah Jump added the other one. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The game saw five lead changes and three ties.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The crowd of 9,111was the largest since 1994, the TV
announcers said. Included in that number was Boulder resident Rita VanDerveer,
mother of head coach Tara VanDerveer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Down
to the wire with a win in Utah<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thanks in large part to Kiki, Stanford eked out its
66-64 victory over Utah on Jan. 12. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Despite accumulating three fouls, Kiki poured in 25
points, snared 16 rebounds and had four assists to go with a block in 32
minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hannah was the only other Cardinal in double figures
with 12 points and four assists in 40 minutes. Sophomore guard Talana Lepolo also
played 40 minutes and dished out seven assists to go with four points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cameron got the first of her two fouls less than two
minutes into the game, went to the bench, returned and got the second foul with
just over a minute to go in the first quarter. She wound up playing 27 minutes
and scored an uncharacteristically low 9 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>points, but had seven rebounds, two assists,
two blocks and a steal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">13
3’s boost the Utes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Playing before a loud crowd of 5,608, the Utes got
more than half of their points from their 13 3’s. Otherwise, they were
outrebounded 40-32. It was a tight game with eight lead changes and seven ties.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanford had six 3’s: two by Jzaniya and one each by
Hannah, Cameron, Talana and junior guard Elena Bosgana. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nine of the 11 available players got into the game.
Freshman forward Courtney Ogden was there but reportedly had an injury and couldn’t
play.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Next up for Cardinal is a two-game home stand
against Oregon at 7 p.m. Jan. 19 and Oregon State at 2 p.m. Jan. 21, followed
by a Behind the Bench. Pac-12 Networks will televise both games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">If
Stanford wins both games, Tara will have 1,203 career wins, the most by any basketball
coach for either men or women, surpassing former Duke men’s coach Mike </span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Krzyzewski</span><span style="color: #202124; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-14048233996493479342024-01-07T22:08:00.000-08:002024-01-08T13:06:23.885-08:001,200 wins for Tara after the Washingtons<p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnUbcmZPCoql1i-aYcm8SSjazaKESBoxkOkRXKZ5ak6a6MJm2J3T8v2jw-9-01TNFUtcvIFHvJNloihwh2CxVEgFyhTLMw_gcqgtNfPXahD9GHXd06T70tzCT_Lxe_cpm47lDnCTnPQvmxvWbUv7dVH39LyLfRPveqX9JAg-9cpu1NOyY0VgOPY366kzWA/s680/tara%20at%20wsu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="544" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnUbcmZPCoql1i-aYcm8SSjazaKESBoxkOkRXKZ5ak6a6MJm2J3T8v2jw-9-01TNFUtcvIFHvJNloihwh2CxVEgFyhTLMw_gcqgtNfPXahD9GHXd06T70tzCT_Lxe_cpm47lDnCTnPQvmxvWbUv7dVH39LyLfRPveqX9JAg-9cpu1NOyY0VgOPY366kzWA/w320-h400/tara%20at%20wsu.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Tara is on the verge of becoming the winningest college basketball coach. <i>(Stanford Athletics)</i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Defeating Washington 71-59 on Jan. 7 and Washington
State 74-65 on Jan. 5, both at home, the Stanford women’s basketball team
handed head coach Tara VanDerveer her 1,200</span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">th</sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> career victory, two
away from matching the record 1,202 wins by former </span><span style="background: white; color: #2c2a29; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Duke men's coach Mike Krzyzewski.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #2c2a29; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On her way to a team-
and game-high 19 points against Washington, junior forward Kiki Iriafen scored
the game’s first 4 points, both resulting from passes by senior forward Cameron
Brink. As for Cameron, she had 16 points and 16 rebounds along with three of
the team’s five blocks. The other two were by Kiki and junior forward Elena
Bosgana.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #2c2a29; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Although Elena had
only four points, she had four rebounds and three assists while playing
ferocious defense, like her teammates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #2c2a29; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hannah adds four 3’s<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #2c2a29; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Graduate guard Hannah
Jump also was in double figures with 13 points, most of them from her four 3’s,
all of which came in the third quarter. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #2c2a29; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Freshman forward Nunu
Agara added 12 points, including one of the team’s seven 3’s. Cameron and
freshman forward Courtney Ogden had one each.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #2c2a29; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It was a tight game,
especially in the first half, when Stanford held a 2-point lead after the first
quarter and a 5-point lead in the second.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #2c2a29; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The third quarter was
decisive as the Cardinal outscored the Huskies by 11 points, leading to a 60-44
advantage. Washington outscored Stanford by 4 points in the final quarter, but
Stanford prevailed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #2c2a29; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Overall, the lead
changed six times, and the score was tied five times, leading to some
nail-biting by the crowd of 3,924.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #2c2a29; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">During the Behind the
Bench after the game, associate head coach Kate Paye said, it was “a great game
for our team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… Our team had to work
extremely hard to prepare for them.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #2c2a29; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Kate expects ‘a dog fight every night’ <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #2c2a29; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Commenting on the
strength of the Pac-12, Kate said, “It’s going to be a dog fight every night.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #2c2a29; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">She was joined by
Cameron and junior forward Brooke Demetre, who answered fans’ questions. Their
answers were hard to discern because of distortion by the microphone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #2c2a29; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When Tara arrived, she
was greeted by a standing ovation, but as usual, she focused on the team and
its big win. “Our team worked hard defensively,” she said.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMqL0B2ZwiSCmFaKFu_1sBu7NV4A4MFbr-888-Uw1Tkvv3ELNlIHKqaoufvwP4j2hjRAWAu_gnMwriy1xkFwI4Eamfbdr5IN1DgtVgSrykB_SzDoF7Dm70n4cpJFPd2oOpPwHld1ciCvkwBFclfrzOxSk5S3Bv42EpjLxChSHGn2q6reaSu-zqxEPRv8Ym/s1500/wsu%20talana.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMqL0B2ZwiSCmFaKFu_1sBu7NV4A4MFbr-888-Uw1Tkvv3ELNlIHKqaoufvwP4j2hjRAWAu_gnMwriy1xkFwI4Eamfbdr5IN1DgtVgSrykB_SzDoF7Dm70n4cpJFPd2oOpPwHld1ciCvkwBFclfrzOxSk5S3Bv42EpjLxChSHGn2q6reaSu-zqxEPRv8Ym/w320-h400/wsu%20talana.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Talana launches one of her four 3's against WSU.<i> (Stanford Athletics)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">WSU
game goes up and down<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the Jan. 5 WSU game, the team and crowd of 3,084
had to endure 12 lead changes and four ties before the Cardinal pulled out the
74-65 win.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It was a game marred by 17 Stanford turnovers and 19
fouls, some of which the crowd loudly booed. By comparison, the Cougars had 14
turnovers and 15 fouls.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On the other hand, Stanford was tops in assists, 19-14,
and rebounds, 43-28.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Cameron led the team with 20 points, 18 rebounds and
all five of its blocks despite being limited by four fouls. She briefly went to
bench for attention by trainer Katelin Knox after being hit in the face in the
third quarter, but she returned after the time out and scored right away. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Cameron
opens scoring with a trey<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">She had scored the team’s first points by nailing a
3. Kiki had 17 points, followed by Talana with 13 and Brooke with 12.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Playing all 40 minutes, Hannah logged an
uncharacteristically low 8 points, none of them from her two 3-point attempts,
but she was being covered like a second skin. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sophomore guard Talana Lepolo helped
to make up that gap with four of the team’s seven 3’s. Brooke had two, and
Cameron had the other one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Because the game was so tight throughout, Tara used
only nine players from the 12-woman roster. Speaking of rosters, WSU’s has a
strongly international flavor with only four of its 13 players from the United
States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Although the home team had a 6-point lead after the
first quarter, the visitors dominated the second, putting Stanford behind
34-35. A 10-point advantage after the third quarter preserved the win because
both teams scored 15 in the fourth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">WSU has never defeated Stanford in all 73 of the
teams’ meetings since they started playing each other in 1983, AP reported. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Fans could get fanny packs with “Cardinal” on them
at tables in the concourses. They also saw the construction equipment that took
up several spaces along Campus Drive in the Maples parking lot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After starting winter quarter classes on Jan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8 and taking that day off from practice, the
team hits the road to play Utah at 5 p.m. PST Jan. 12 and Colorado at 11 a.m.
PST Jan. 14. Pac-12 Networks will air both games. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-88879372917968681722024-01-02T10:55:00.000-08:002024-01-02T10:55:38.173-08:00Team ushers out 2023 with two decisive wins<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAYll_1rrzGqGbP8lHh7WE58F6OevEJiuFLkBbUh8tX2NXbtNLAGZw0mXjEjCX6SVK6kJlhu0PlWgh2ebETuWPolTvFBlpB5dWHkuqiZ5ZZm8vkz9gGaQXLuENt1ahNuz-U_l-ZLQq6r8wlwYkWfH7yrgn5HJwBk7BXxQOS7Qpdv-3SjWuUPA5XCCKgxVX/s942/talana%20supriva%20limage%20isisphotos.come.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="942" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAYll_1rrzGqGbP8lHh7WE58F6OevEJiuFLkBbUh8tX2NXbtNLAGZw0mXjEjCX6SVK6kJlhu0PlWgh2ebETuWPolTvFBlpB5dWHkuqiZ5ZZm8vkz9gGaQXLuENt1ahNuz-U_l-ZLQq6r8wlwYkWfH7yrgn5HJwBk7BXxQOS7Qpdv-3SjWuUPA5XCCKgxVX/w640-h360/talana%20supriva%20limage%20isisphotos.come.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Talana had a career day against Cal. <i>(Supriva Limaga/isisphotos.com)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Stanford women’s basketball team ended 2023 and
began Pac-12 play on winning notes by defeating Cal 78-51 there on Dec. 29 and
Morgan State 98-38 at home on New Year’s Eve. These two wins, combined with
losses by some higher-ranked teams, advanced Stanford to No. 8 from No. 9 in
the Jan. 1 AP poll.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Starting point guard Talana Lepolo took the
spotlight at the Cal game by scoring a career-high 20 points bolstered by a
career-high six 3-pointers. Playing a team-high 35 minutes, she also had six
assists, which led to at least 12 points for her team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She was one of three Cardinal players in double
figures. Junior forward Kiki Iriafen had 16 points to go with 10 rebounds for a
double-double. Senior Cameron Brink had an uncharacteristically low 13 points and
seven rebounds because of foul trouble. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She also missed a few minutes in the third quarter
after apparently injuring a thumb and having it taped. She returned to the
floor but was charged with her third foul, sending her to the bench. Shortly
into the fourth quarter, she got her fourth foul and took a seat for the rest
of the game.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By then her abilities weren’t needed because the
team had such a commanding lead, one that had grown larger after each quarter. However,
she got the team’s scoring going by making two consecutive baskets to start the
game. She also had the first of her two blocks in that quarter, and – for good
measure – made the team’s first 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Team
has 11 3’s</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All told, the team had 11 3’s. Besides Talana’s six
and Cameron’s one, graduate guard Hannah Jump had two, and junior forward
Brooke Demetre and redshirt sophomore guard Jzaniya Harriel had one each.
Brooke’s 3 came as a long-distance shot just as the second-quarter was about to
end.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This game was the 100<sup>th</sup> between the
cross-bay rivals. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrrOuTZdHBooth57NDxghTGIwfTrq3RxFjqUOjNkNrw56ePa2ulZJdqb4MuDBs0EIYqCToungItl7Mc0Q1OzI1ZEItb4EFGk__fJRsU8IKp_-3rIfcAvcBIwSWg4PRSDJuF2j8GXKvbvtZVoY8G9KzAQn5YeAvw-SvYwbTKdDfMMtza_iRauLZzgLTbfnM/s680/Jayne's%20gs%20troop%20at%20cal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="680" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrrOuTZdHBooth57NDxghTGIwfTrq3RxFjqUOjNkNrw56ePa2ulZJdqb4MuDBs0EIYqCToungItl7Mc0Q1OzI1ZEItb4EFGk__fJRsU8IKp_-3rIfcAvcBIwSWg4PRSDJuF2j8GXKvbvtZVoY8G9KzAQn5YeAvw-SvYwbTKdDfMMtza_iRauLZzgLTbfnM/w640-h360/Jayne's%20gs%20troop%20at%20cal.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scouts from Jayne Appel-Marinelli's troop meet with the team after the game. <i>(Stanford Athletics)</i><br />l</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Part of the reported attendance of 4,197 included
Girl Scouts from Jayne Appel-Marinelli’s, ’10, daughter Shea’s troop. Afterward
they met with the team. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Morgan
State win means happy birthday for Cameron<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The 60-point victory over Baltimore’s Morgan State
on Dec. 31 was a fitting way for Cameron to celebrate her birthday. She did so
by leading the team with 18 points and six blocks with no fouls despite having
her right thumb taped after injuring it in the Cal game.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She was one of six Cardinal players in double
figures. Junior guard Elena Bosgana and freshman forward Nunu Agara each had 14
points, followed by Hannah and Jzaniya with 13 each and Kiki with 10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jzaniya, who, along with freshman forward Courtney
Ogden, had returned to action in the Cal game after missing the two previous
games, bolstered her point total by hoisting three of the team’s nine 3’s.
Elena accounted for two, while Cameron, Hannah, Nunu and Brooke had one each.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Talana didn’t score, but she did dish out a
team-high eight assists with no turnovers. The team had only four fouls, none
of which sent Morgan State to the free throw line.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Everyone
gets in, contributes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanford outscored the visitors in all quarters,
including the first when 10 players were used. By the final buzzer, all 12 had
seen action and contributed in some way. Even in the fourth quarter, when the
starters were on the bench for most of the period, Stanford had 23 points to
Morgan State’s 11. Official attendance was reported as 2,751.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This win marked the 1,198<sup>th</sup> in head coach
Tara VanDerveer’s coaching career. That means she’s just five wins from topping
the all-time record of 1,202 for men or women held by former Duke coach Mike
Krzyzewski.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Two more Pac-12 opponents will visit Maples with
Washington State scheduled for 7 p.m. Jan. 5 and Washington for 1 p.m. Jan. 7,
followed by a Behind the Bench. Pac-12 Networks will televise both games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Winter quarter classes resume Jan. 8.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-60816084933093309532023-12-21T21:22:00.000-08:002023-12-21T21:22:10.888-08:00Team beats Aggies on the Farm<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNFtj2xzehDN06TAYEbjymBuKVcvRIyI1j2_uNohUpgT4n3t-xKjTwghBCARUIRRgg3iYfsQ8ZolJ-4vz-NfyHlcB6bpS7RZBAfaE0UGphqeMnqxOXxJjUcrZglEoDUTEubV7IrUOKIt5mWDtgQlwYjb3BKnMm-6Mqzo1hZYUqq9t3kXPsbGyAtQ4gQCA8/s942/hannah%20uc%20davis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="942" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNFtj2xzehDN06TAYEbjymBuKVcvRIyI1j2_uNohUpgT4n3t-xKjTwghBCARUIRRgg3iYfsQ8ZolJ-4vz-NfyHlcB6bpS7RZBAfaE0UGphqeMnqxOXxJjUcrZglEoDUTEubV7IrUOKIt5mWDtgQlwYjb3BKnMm-6Mqzo1hZYUqq9t3kXPsbGyAtQ4gQCA8/w640-h360/hannah%20uc%20davis.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hannah now holds the team record for 3-pointers with 313 so far. <i>(Stanford Athletics)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The UC Davis Aggies women’s basketball team visited
the Farm on Dec. 20 and allowed the Stanford women to harvest another lopsided
victory, 92-52.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It was a game highlighted by grad student guard
Hannah Jump’s record-setting 312<sup>th</sup> and 313<sup>th</sup> 3-pointers,
surpassing former teammate Kiana Williams, ’21, who held the previous record of
311. The new mark came at 5:15 in the first quarter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When her achievement was announced after her second
trey during the second quarter, the crowd of 2,701 gave her a standing ovation.
A video board message from Kiana congratulated her.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hannah was among six Stanford players in double
figures with 10 points. Senior forward Cameron Brink led the team with 21
points, followed closely by junior forward Kiki Iriafen with 20 plus 11
rebounds. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Junior guard Elena Bosgana chipped in 14 points,
while junior forward Brooke Demetre had 11, and freshman forward Nunu Agara had
10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Davis led only once when it scored the first basket
in the first quarter. After that the Cardinal dominated the scoreboard except
in the fourth quarter. That’s when the starters – Cameron, Kiki, Hannah, Elena
and sophomore guard Talana Lepolo – were spending most of it on the bench,
yielding to five of their teammates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Once again the team had only 10 of its 12 players
available. Freshman forward Courtney Ogden and redshirt sophomore guard Jzaniya
Harriel were in street clothes, as they were against Portland.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The team lofted eight 3-pointers. Besides the two by
Hannah, there were two each by Elena and Talana and one each by Cameron and
Brooke.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For the game, Stanford shot 57.6 percent overall compared
with Davis’s 34.5 percent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Because it was a rainy day, some fans arrived with
umbrellas, but were told by redcoats near the entrances that umbrellas are no longer
allowed. Fans had to take them back to their cars. The previous rule said no
open umbrellas were allowed. There was no reason given for this inconvenient
change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Another change that seems permanent is that
California Pizza Kitchen no longer operates in Maples, at least for women’s
basketball. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Because most students were away for the holiday
break, there was no band or other student support groups. Roscoe’s Corner,
which is selling the ’23-24 yearbook for $5, was closed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Before the game started, the videoboard featured
head coach Tara VanDerveer’s tribute to the late, retired U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, 1930-2023. A Stanford graduate, she was the first
woman on the high court, a fan of basketball and a friend of Tara and Tara’s
mother, Rita.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now the team is taking its holiday break but will
return to cross the bay to play Cal at 2 p.m. Dec. 29 to open the Pac-12
season. Pac-12 Networks will televise that game. Then on New Year’s Eve,
Stanford hosts its final nonconference game, playing Morgan State of Baltimore,
Md., at 6 p.m. Dec. 31.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-91093188645809418042023-12-17T11:10:00.000-08:002023-12-18T17:14:21.015-08:00Back to winning after Portland falls 81-51<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGHBb3ZVEarBHTownq3LRNw2QPCgoVbBK6YjOjdA3-6YzDLw20AwXqjXSNYngL9gu4hlThZP1Aohyeqz2oArTw9zC5P-Ybo1c4IpR3YtYRLDWD62tEPiw0z_vRV3XThp_KCQCXyi5Yw2SSkLsBnQWBltVsFFVucQZDdceV5WQHlTsFVCpW5HPSLTiO2n27/s942/portland%20cam.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="942" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGHBb3ZVEarBHTownq3LRNw2QPCgoVbBK6YjOjdA3-6YzDLw20AwXqjXSNYngL9gu4hlThZP1Aohyeqz2oArTw9zC5P-Ybo1c4IpR3YtYRLDWD62tEPiw0z_vRV3XThp_KCQCXyi5Yw2SSkLsBnQWBltVsFFVucQZDdceV5WQHlTsFVCpW5HPSLTiO2n27/w640-h360/portland%20cam.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cameron celebrates a teammate's accomplishment. (Stanford Athletics(</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">With finals and the season’s lone loss in the
rearview mirror, the Stanford women’s basketball team continued along the
winning road by defeating Portland 81-51 Dec. 15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at Maples.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It wasn’t as easy as the final score might suggest. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">First, only 10 of the 12 players were available.
Both redshirt sophomore guard Jzaniya Harriel and freshman forward Courtney
Ogden were in street clothes and on the bench.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Second, the second quarter laid bare some of the
team’s vulnerabilities. With senior forward Cameron Brink and junior forward
Kiki Iriafen, two of the team’s highest scorers, on the bench because of two fouls
each, the visiting Pilots outscored their hosts 16-8. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After no turnovers in the first quarter, the team
had seven in the second, but it ended the game with only 10 turnovers total,
while Portland had 14. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Second-quarter defense was iffy as the visitors
scored some easy baskets. The crowd of 2,875, including the band, wasn’t happy
with some of the calls against Stanford either.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Still, the Cardinal held an 11-point lead, 36-25, as
the first half ended.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the first quarter, Cameron made the first two
baskets. Coming off the bench, junior forward Brooke Demetre made three baskets
in a row before limping off with under two minutes to go in that quarter. She appeared
to walk it off, returned to the bench and got into the game later. However, she
got hit in the eye about halfway through the fourth quarter and didn’t return
to action.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Still, she was one of four Cardinal players in
double figures with 10 points. Cameron led everyone with 23 points plus 15
rebounds, four assists and four blocks in 29 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Kiki added 13 points in 15 minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Freshman forward Nunu Agara also had 10
points. Junior guard Elena Bosgana was in double figures, too, with 10 rebounds
(plus eight points).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The starting lineup remained the same as it has all
season with Cameron, Kiki, Elena, sophomore guard Talana Lepolo and grad
student guard Hannah Jump.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The team had an unusually low four 3’s. Three of them
were by Hannah, who tied the program record of 311 set by Kiana Williams, ’21.
However, Kiana played 4,336 career minutes while Hannah is at 3,042, according
to AP. Elena had the team’s other trey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">During halftime, Stanford staff displayed containers
of unwrapped toys that fans had donated to the holiday toy drive benefiting the
Ronald McDonald House on Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the third quarter, the Portland coach was
assessed a technical foul, sending <br />
Cameron to the free-throw line, where she made one of two attempts. For the
game she was 11 of 13 to lead the team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">With its season record of 9-1, Stanford next hosts
UC Davis at 1 p.m. Dec. 20 before taking a
break for Christmas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-35092274160262322042023-12-13T11:31:00.000-08:002023-12-13T11:31:20.982-08:00Jeanette enjoys new gig at Stanford<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb75wVQfcNZbznQFXKiE69tSfEQMMzlNIMAOsjkQqkr1Bq26-AV57_tHw9smqhwbx2h361p0Ei3ztixtI23DSAROjWR8UU19_77_AkG-sSKRLSm2eBROE29gyGqc9z6sQ40O9PX0PUkn_GBCNBK3tYFAZ2IEHEcPYyeHCjELGHK6fUOiqMtHTWD631EcJG/s320/jeanette%20trophy%20pac%2010%20champs.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="320" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb75wVQfcNZbznQFXKiE69tSfEQMMzlNIMAOsjkQqkr1Bq26-AV57_tHw9smqhwbx2h361p0Ei3ztixtI23DSAROjWR8UU19_77_AkG-sSKRLSm2eBROE29gyGqc9z6sQ40O9PX0PUkn_GBCNBK3tYFAZ2IEHEcPYyeHCjELGHK6fUOiqMtHTWD631EcJG/w640-h424/jeanette%20trophy%20pac%2010%20champs.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jeanette holds the trophy after Stanford won the Pac-10 championship in 2011. (Deb Gumbley)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In some ways, Jeanette Pohlen is a Swiss army knife
for the Stanford women’s basketball program. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Serving in the relatively new position of director
of player development, she’s a “liaison between the program, the athletic
department and the campus,” she said in a recent phone interview. If someone
wants players’ involvement outside of basketball activities, they see her. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">She helps with the outreach to program alums and
overall takes a load off the coaches. She sits in on their meetings, helps with
ordering gear and assists director of basketball operations Eileen Roche in
planning summer camps. Recently she’s added another item to her resume,
providing insight during radio broadcasts of games. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In her relationship with the coaches, “I feel like
they value my opinion.” In the meantime, “I listen. I try to learn. It’s been
special to be on the other side of things, not as a player.” She’s also
grateful to be working with head coach Tara VanDerveer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Four
Final Fours for Jeanette<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Jeanette graduated from Stanford in 2011, when she
was named Pac-12 Player of the Year and amassed an impressive history,
including four consecutive Final Fours. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After graduating, she was drafted by the Indiana
Fever and played there and in Turkey before retiring in 2018. During her pro
years, she dealt with two major injuries to her ACL and Achilles. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">She was married to Julian Mavunga, also a basketball
player, for just over four years and lived in Japan off and for five years.
While there she taught English and ran basketball clinics. She still has
friends there. After her marriage ended, she returned home to Orange County. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Because “I always had an itch to coach,” she reached
out to Tara and associate head coach Kate Paye about how to prepare. That’s
when Tara invited her to be a coaching intern. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">She jumped at the chance “to learn from the
greatest.” It also was “a good place to start over. I learned a lot.” She was a
coaching intern with the team in the ’21-‘22 season before moving into her
present post last season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Would she like to become a coach some day? “I’m not
ruling it out,” she said, noting that some of her teammates like Lindy La Rocque
and Joslyn Tinkle are in the coaching ranks. So is one of her new colleagues,
assistant coach Erica “Bird” McCall, who was her Indiana Fever teammate for a
year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Favorite
times include playing with Candice<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Looking back at her four years in a Cardinal
uniform, she cited some favorite times, including playing with Candice Wiggins,
’08, and going to her first Final Four, which was in Tampa. “We saw what it
took to get there.” Her next three Final Fours were in St. Louis, San Antonio
and Indianapolis. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“All of our Final
Fours were special,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Then there’s the moment that lives forever in
Stanford women’s basketball history: the 4.4-second run to score the winning
basket against Xavier in 2010 at the NCAA regional in Sacramento. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">With the score tied 53-53 and mere seconds to go,
Xavier missed two easy shots. Jeanette’s classmate, Kayla Pedersen, rebounded
the second miss and immediately called a time out. She inbounded the ball to
Jeanette under the Xavier basket with just 4.4 seconds to go. Jeanette sped
down the floor and made the winning basket just in time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If she hadn’t, the game would have gone into
overtime. Instead she was swamped by her joyful teammates. On the bus taking
fans home after the game, someone yelled, “Pohlen for governor.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJZ-ssGjMMmRW8qG7rulvKUfgOHUZlCYwGnGwQlQiNL9odQAHtEPr1glRoImAf24WJeg-ljKQQJyKuKfnP5gszPXlL6_-tV_RP_yZ_L8lDqnogRLTlezOVAcHoD0RMtnxTcqANugUmbi7chThNp-gn8BIn2c_mrcxPoFgGtly5E1-_geGcpymoPWrGMvz9/s768/jeanette%20uconn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="768" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJZ-ssGjMMmRW8qG7rulvKUfgOHUZlCYwGnGwQlQiNL9odQAHtEPr1glRoImAf24WJeg-ljKQQJyKuKfnP5gszPXlL6_-tV_RP_yZ_L8lDqnogRLTlezOVAcHoD0RMtnxTcqANugUmbi7chThNp-gn8BIn2c_mrcxPoFgGtly5E1-_geGcpymoPWrGMvz9/w640-h360/jeanette%20uconn.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jeanette addresses the Maples crowd after the team ended UConn's streak. (AP photo)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Team
ended UConn’s record streak<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Beating UConn 71-59 at Maples on Dec. 30, 2010,
during her senior season and ending its record 90-game winning streak is
another of her favorite memories. Fans who were there vividly recall that
Jeanette threw the ball straight upward at the final buzzer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Fans may also recall that she had a pet turtle,
Rocky. She still does. He’s staying with one of her brothers in Southern
California.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“I had a great four years” at Stanford, she said.
She considers her teammates sisters and best friends.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Since returning to Stanford, Jeanette has lost her
mother, Cindy, who died in April after a recurrence of breast cancer. Hence,
Jeanette spent time with her during that final illness. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Speaking of this year’s team she said, “This group
is focused. They’re still learning.” They care for one another. “I’m really
proud of this group.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As for her job, “I really enjoy it. It makes my days
fun,” she said. After her four collegiate years, “I love being back at
Stanford.”</span><span style="display: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-hide: all;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-85816894112497983272023-12-05T10:14:00.000-08:002023-12-05T10:14:17.588-08:00Team suffers first loss after eight wins<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After racking up a season record of 8-0, including a
decisive 85-44 win at San Diego State two days earlier, the Stanford women’s
basketball team came down to earth with a thud, losing 96-78 at Gonzaga on Dec.
3.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The loss knocked the Cardinal down to No. 9 from No.
3 in the Dec. 4 AP poll.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Despite shooting 56.6 percent overall, the team
couldn’t match Gonzaga’s output, which had two players scoring 27 points each
and three more in double figures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanford also had five players in double figures
with 13 each from graduate guard Hannah Jump and freshman forwards Courtney
Ogden and Nunu Agara along with 10 each from senior forward Cameron Brink and
junior forward Kiki Iriafen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Illness,
fouls limit Cardinal bigs<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cameron played only 11 minutes. She reportedly was feeling
ill. Kiki was in foul trouble with four personals. Sixteen turnovers also hurt.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But kudos to the Tree-O, the three freshmen who
contributed a total 35 points, including the nine from guard Chloe Clardy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The team’s nine 3’s came from Courtney, who had
three; Hannah and junior forward Brooke Demetre, who had two each; and Cameron
and Chloe, who had one each.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPqzD-_jiSxGeCpaxbFFY8GgGTIdugipsIug4GCNEZXtIVPV5_glMmpLlZsRa1-TJgJ1wPY4ISgwAjjvFWqpRNSF_vvIoQiCixbakJV805TuZhl0I9X9hcEyxWNwbRtZ35uasjeeYtiFid66oAfnnWE2tWGtn8bwLNj_Og1g9qSqjSMVTEV4oZ9K0b9v25/s680/sdstate%20cam%20jeanette%20stanford%20ath.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="544" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPqzD-_jiSxGeCpaxbFFY8GgGTIdugipsIug4GCNEZXtIVPV5_glMmpLlZsRa1-TJgJ1wPY4ISgwAjjvFWqpRNSF_vvIoQiCixbakJV805TuZhl0I9X9hcEyxWNwbRtZ35uasjeeYtiFid66oAfnnWE2tWGtn8bwLNj_Og1g9qSqjSMVTEV4oZ9K0b9v25/w320-h400/sdstate%20cam%20jeanette%20stanford%20ath.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cameron has surpassed Jeanette in scoring. <i>(Stanford Athletics)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cameron
tops Jeanette in career scoring<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the 85-44 victory at San Diego State on Dec. 1,
Cameron piled up 25 points in just 25 minutes. She also had 12 rebounds and
three blocks. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With her career total of 1,459 points as of that
game, she advanced to 20<sup>th</sup> among Stanford’s all-time leading
scorers. Thus she edged out director of player development Jeanette Pohlen,
’11, who had scored 1,453 points in her four years at Stanford.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hannah had 13 points in the game, while Nunu added
11 plus seven rebounds. Limited by fouls, Kiki played only 15 minutes and had
six points but a team-leading 11 rebounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After cold 3-point shooting in the first quarter,
the team went on to post nine 3’s. Hannah and redshirt sophomore Jzaniya Harriel
each had three. Cameron, Nunu and Brooke each had one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Cardinal dominated the Aztecs in every aspect of
the game and never yielded a lead or tie. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The team now will take a break from competition to focus
on academics. Finals are Dec. 11-15. Winter quarter starts Jan. 8.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the meantime, the team hosts Portland at 7 p.m.
Dec. 15 and UC Davis at 1 p.m. Dec. 20 before returning from a holiday break to
travel across the bay to Cal at 2 p.m. Dec. 29 and then to host Morgan State at
6 p.m. Dec. 31. The Pac-12 Network will televise the Portland and Cal games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-29534217663106842222023-11-27T21:32:00.000-08:002023-11-27T21:32:07.140-08:007-0 record moves team up to No. 3 nationally<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4p8pHb2Q0Ll3HOoA7p3sxdPnDQRVnjGQO_5pr74X2tdAJXbf2VVvxvviXNknIDRemtrt0op601xj6Pnnfki2dUjiw9kd1GvebEd_dBM7feY3D4kJao2H7O_fl4fri9Gb5P3eDFjFxiNdbzILxtFPFD1Dp96kFFsJP0DJUkNikyxqFJkezDiEW4giZ6rKs/s1130/thanksgiving%20trophies%20stan%20ath.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="1130" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4p8pHb2Q0Ll3HOoA7p3sxdPnDQRVnjGQO_5pr74X2tdAJXbf2VVvxvviXNknIDRemtrt0op601xj6Pnnfki2dUjiw9kd1GvebEd_dBM7feY3D4kJao2H7O_fl4fri9Gb5P3eDFjFxiNdbzILxtFPFD1Dp96kFFsJP0DJUkNikyxqFJkezDiEW4giZ6rKs/w640-h250/thanksgiving%20trophies%20stan%20ath.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kiki Iriafen holds her MVP trophy, and Stavi Papadaki and Hannah Jump hold the championship trophy after the team won both games at the Ball Dawgs Classic in Nevada. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After playing four games in eight days, the Stanford
women’s basketball team remains undefeated with a 7-0 record. Thus it moved up a notch to No. 3 in the Nov. 27 AP poll. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The first of those four games was Nov. 19, when Duke
fell 82-79 in a game already reported here. As a postscript, though, senior
forward Cameron Brink was named Pac-12 Player of the Week and a National Player
of the Week for the second straight week. She was named Pac-12 Player of the Week again on Nov. 27.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The next two games took the team to Henderson, Nev.,
for the Ball Dawgs Classic. Playing on Nov. 22, Stanford defeated Belmont
74-55. Once again Cameron had an outstanding game with 27 points and 16
rebounds. However, hopes that she would have hit a record 75 free throws in a
row vanished when she made her 73<sup>rd</sup> at the line but missed the
second. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Junior forward Kiki Iriafen was the only other
Cardinal in double figures with 14 points. The team posted seven 3’s with three
by graduate guard Hannah Jump and two by junior forward Brooke Demetre. Adding
one each were sophomore guard Talana Lepolo and freshman forward Courtney Ogden.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It was a back-and-forth game with the lead changing
six times and the score tied three times.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Kiki
pours in career-high 30 points against Florida State<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Florida State game on Nov. 24 was even more
back-and-forth with the lead changing 12 times and the score tied eight times.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Kiki posted a career-high 30 points plus 17
rebounds. Cameron had 19 points while Hannah had 17 and junior guard Elena
Bosgana 16. Thus the team came home with two trophies: one for the
tournament championship and the other for Kiki as the tournament’s most
valuable player.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nine 3’s helped with the win, thanks to five by
Hannah, two by Elena and one each by Brooke and redshirt sophomore Jzaniya
Harriel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7y12evagaSt_AwaInGaoNehfyaNkHdGVNdPpXes89shp5ZxN0EM_na4eHRFPMdntRyt8PSdgqoZOHXiXf2LD__-Kaj1HZVXWHVo3Nue6C0-YttSVfFbuNjYTPYKjBBAYj89AbFOusLPrUsRF0NJbSh7nf7DWLt221Y4wWGbB5uiHC5URzgeRKIA-y5jBr/s942/thanksgiving%20hannah.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="942" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7y12evagaSt_AwaInGaoNehfyaNkHdGVNdPpXes89shp5ZxN0EM_na4eHRFPMdntRyt8PSdgqoZOHXiXf2LD__-Kaj1HZVXWHVo3Nue6C0-YttSVfFbuNjYTPYKjBBAYj89AbFOusLPrUsRF0NJbSh7nf7DWLt221Y4wWGbB5uiHC5URzgeRKIA-y5jBr/w400-h225/thanksgiving%20hannah.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hannah is nearing a Stanford record for 3-pointers. </td></tr></tbody></table><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hannah
drains her 303<sup>rd</sup> career trey in Albany game<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Three-pointers also were part of the story as the
team returned home to defeat Albany 79-35 on Nov. 26. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">During the second
quarter, Hannah made two in a row. One of them was the 300<sup>th</sup> of her
career. She finished the game with four 3’s for a career total of 303, AP reported. The team
record for 3’s is 311 by Kiana Williams, ’21. Also scoring 3’s were Elena with
three, Jzaniya with two and Courtney with one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The game was never in doubt at Stanford held the
Great Danes scoreless until about halfway through the first quarter. By then
the Cardinal had already made 11 points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">All 12 players got into the game and nearly everyone
contributed in some way. Bench players added 20 points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Joining the crowd of 2,754 were the band,
cheerleaders and longtime announcer Betty Ann Hagenau. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Assistant coach Erica “Bird” McCall hosted the
Behind the Bench and was joined by Kiki and Elena. Although they answered
numerous questions, their answers were hard to discern because the sound was
distorted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Two more road games are on tap with San Diego State
at 11 a.m. Dec. 1 and Gonzaga at 1 p.m. Dec. 3. After that, the players will
have some time off for finals before hosting Portland at 7 p.m. Dec. 15.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Photos by Stanford Athletics</i></span></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-69824890943616125872023-11-20T08:06:00.000-08:002023-11-20T08:06:25.106-08:00Cardinal vanquish Blue Devils in OT<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFHOGI6jYStw8Qfov7rjP9xCro8G2gJmStABicRmmhKgC616FW8U0j1qUFT6NimDe7gmWk4DDsMx4xYVVL3DBb4IwNCFhsRitixkcblEY-sPLFDw8b4wWFw4l7z97qcCkNNrVlHxMBVtcA-VAwFjDCyBtA8hnMYyuRWvdQiD5Jumt7mQqUfg6hGKuAZkd/s1130/2023-24DukePhoto.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="1130" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFHOGI6jYStw8Qfov7rjP9xCro8G2gJmStABicRmmhKgC616FW8U0j1qUFT6NimDe7gmWk4DDsMx4xYVVL3DBb4IwNCFhsRitixkcblEY-sPLFDw8b4wWFw4l7z97qcCkNNrVlHxMBVtcA-VAwFjDCyBtA8hnMYyuRWvdQiD5Jumt7mQqUfg6hGKuAZkd/w640-h366/2023-24DukePhoto.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closely guarded, Cameron goes up against Duke defenders. <i>(San Francisco Chronicle)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The visiting Duke Blue Devils gave fans of the
Stanford women’s basketball team their full share of scary moments, but the
Cardinal pulled it out in overtime, winning 82-79 on Nov. 19. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The first two quarters resembled the previous three
games when Stanford dominated and went on to lopsided wins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not this time. After leading by 13 and 8 points,
respectively, in the first half, Stanford was down by 2 points after the third
quarter and tied 71-71 in the fourth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By then it was back and forth. The lead changed six
times and the score was tied eight times during the game.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Cameron's career-high 29 points lead team</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Even though her time was limited by four fouls (some
of them loudly disputed by Stanford fans in the crowd of 4,236), senior forward
Cameron Brink led the team with a career-high 29 points and a team-high 11
rebounds. She scored 9 of Stanford’s 11 points in overtime, and iced the win
with two free throws with 11.9 seconds to go.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As an added bonus, she had six of the team’s seven
blocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the final seconds ticked
down, some fans held up a sign reading, “Cam’s swat tracker – 313,” indicative
of her career blocks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Junior forward Kiki Iriafen was close behind in
scoring with her own career high of 27 points. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">About halfway through the overtime, she limped off
the court but returned with under a minute left. She had a cramp in her leg,
head coach Tara VanDerveer said after the game.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Graduate guard Hannah Jump was the other player in
double figures with all 15 of her points coming from five of the team’s seven
3’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cameron and junior forward Brooke
Demetre had the other two.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As usual, Cameron, Kiki and Hannah started along
with sophomore guard Talana Lepolo and junior guard Elena Bosgana.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Missing from the excitement were the band, Tree,
cheerleaders and Dollies as well as announcer Betty Ann Hagenau. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Coached by former WNBA great Kara Lawson, Duke had
only 11 available players and used 10 of them. Likewise, 10 of Stanford’s 12
players got into the game.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">'Great early season win,' Kate says</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Afterward, associate head coach Kate Paye began the
Behind the Bench by saying, “That was a great early season win. ..This game
will really help us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.. A game like this
comes down to little things.’’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As she spoke, she was joined by the three freshmen:
guard Chloe Clardy and forwards Nunu Agara and Courtney Ogden, whom she praised
for their maturity and skills. Meanwhile, workers were setting up the court for
a volleyball game that night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN8j07yBSaqZLelvHFH0ScLNBjjVODKF4WLGF92dPxbe3qcy9HI5ZoHl7D4AuYId7l2o5GHw7iTuDf3majpziQ1yVA3fSrYgErM0-wg6pZDmVg_jZYtyJ9eTKj1xyZa0iIFSj-dAwJQ5SF-WJQbEL2z_nwVgcz89OfjtAseZXRA9NWBFlRVp8dSvgiUzBq/s2048/duke%20alums%20stanford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN8j07yBSaqZLelvHFH0ScLNBjjVODKF4WLGF92dPxbe3qcy9HI5ZoHl7D4AuYId7l2o5GHw7iTuDf3majpziQ1yVA3fSrYgErM0-wg6pZDmVg_jZYtyJ9eTKj1xyZa0iIFSj-dAwJQ5SF-WJQbEL2z_nwVgcz89OfjtAseZXRA9NWBFlRVp8dSvgiUzBq/w640-h360/duke%20alums%20stanford.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Hull twins and Alyssa Jerome are welcomed back by the coaches. <i>(Stanford Athletics)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She then was joined by three alumni who were part of
Stanford’s 2021 national championship team: Lexie and Lacie Hull and Alyssa
Jerome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They had joined the team for lunch the day before,
Tara said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Commenting on the game, Tara said, “We had all we
can handle. We have a lot of work to do.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That work will involve three more games during the
holiday week. The team will be in Henderson, Nev., near Las Vegas, for a
tournament that involves a 1:30 p.m. Nov. 22 game against Belmont. On Nov. 24
the team faces Florida State or Northwestern at 6:30 or 9 p.m. followed by a
quick trip home to host Albany at 1 p.m. Nov. 26.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-15641106872354718112023-11-17T20:57:00.000-08:002023-11-17T20:57:58.269-08:00Easy win against Cal Poly gives starters some rest<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHpkSrjlVjcP0vophzgBDBETJ1FAQAU7k-CEZBWBsN4G1muoh6OWMj5snF86O2c4t9gZjbZzwLGq_8jVhvVZpw4vI7Esq0Vh3waLSuB_L14BCVf8l57HTn6Kc2O-kKwlpEYc-KL1aQbJePMLSLE905N31tgSPPWaLq89kA6IZwcQ3D3kgUQe6ELYsC-Hqx/s1130/cal%20poly%20elena.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="1130" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHpkSrjlVjcP0vophzgBDBETJ1FAQAU7k-CEZBWBsN4G1muoh6OWMj5snF86O2c4t9gZjbZzwLGq_8jVhvVZpw4vI7Esq0Vh3waLSuB_L14BCVf8l57HTn6Kc2O-kKwlpEYc-KL1aQbJePMLSLE905N31tgSPPWaLq89kA6IZwcQ3D3kgUQe6ELYsC-Hqx/w640-h360/cal%20poly%20elena.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Elena drives against Cal Poly on her way to a team-high and career-high 15 points. <i>(Karen Hickey/ISIPsiphotos/com)<br /></i><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Stanford women’s basketball team cruised to an
86-32 victory over Cal Poly on Nov. 16.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">At first it seemed as if the visitors from San Luis
Obispo would give Stanford its first close competition this season. Cal Poly
scored first, giving it a 2-0 lead – its first and only one of the game.
Sophomore guard Talana Lepolo immediately responded with a 3, and that was almost
that. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The score was tied 8-8 with just over six minutes to
go in the first quarter. About two minutes later, Stanford was up 13-8. By the
time the quarter ended, Stanford had scored 9 more points, held Cal Poly
scoreless and led by 14 points, 22-8.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Mustangs’ guards were disruptive at first, but
the Cardinal soon righted the ship. When the first half buzzer sounded, the
home team had five turnovers to Cal Poly’s 11. Thanks to eight 3’s during that
half, Stanford amassed a 53-15 lead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The starters – Talana, grad student guard Hannah
Jump, senior forward Cameron Brink, junior forward Kiki Iriafen and junior guard Elena
Bosgana – began the third quarter together, but the frequent substitutions that
had characterized earlier games soon led to them sitting on the bench and cheering
their teammates for much of that quarter and all of the fourth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Thus the starters avoided injury and the rest of the
team got valuable game experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">They’ll need it during Thanksgiving week. After
hosting Duke at noon Nov. 19, the team travels to Henderson, Nev., near Las
Vegas, for a tournament that involves a 1:30 p.m. Nov. 22 game against Belmont.
On Nov. 24 it will face Florida State or Northwestern at 6:30 or
9 p.m. Then it’s a quick trip home to host Albany at 1 p.m. Nov. 26. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But back to the Cal Poly game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although Stanford’s 86 points were the fewest
scored so far this season, Cal Poly’s 32 points were the fewest allowed. That’s
thanks to a tenacious defense that often caused Cal Poly to use most of the
shot clock and take hurried shots.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanford’s 11 3’s helped boost the score. Two of
those 3’s were courtesy of Talana. Redshirt sophomore Jzaniya Harriel hoisted
four 3’s for the best game of her career. Freshman forward Courtney Ogden added
three. Elena and freshman forward Nunu Agara had one each. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Elena led the team with 15 points, matching her
career high, according to AP. Jzaniya added 14 points and played the longest,
25 minutes. Kiki with 13 and Courtney with 10 also were in double figures. Kiki
had been named a National Player of the Week following her double-doubles
against Hawaii and IU. Junior forward Brooke Demetre had a team- and game-high
11 rebounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The crowd of 2,554 included the band, Tree,
cheerleaders and Dollies. Regular announcer Betty Ann Hagenau was again
replaced by a man, but the band’s presence meant a DJ and his deafening “music”
weren’t there. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After the game, the three freshmen, or TreeO – Courtney, Nunu
and guard Chloe Clardy -- signed autographs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This game brought head coach Tara <span style="color: black;">VanDerveer within 14 wins of breaking Mike Krzyzewski’s
1,202 victories as the winningest coach in college basketball history, AP<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reported.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-18822720540166899562023-11-14T10:53:00.000-08:002023-11-14T10:53:43.234-08:00Much to celebrate in win over Indiana<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih7ZoQBbnJSQWKC_PmCMt59fZR5IQrFKw1ErfVQl61bhSNOBZO8qDbZrsioNOv6CpN3fQyaxInG0HP8np3EWKYv5IR1mTmHpZMu0ShxnlblCw5-89aGvl7cnTiAMKwkDVM4cKphfBmIojerdw_mSGOjp-gaP2ZGAjD_kZcfzKNxrWWqHL4zmGco6LbCJga/s950/hawaii%20bench.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="950" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih7ZoQBbnJSQWKC_PmCMt59fZR5IQrFKw1ErfVQl61bhSNOBZO8qDbZrsioNOv6CpN3fQyaxInG0HP8np3EWKYv5IR1mTmHpZMu0ShxnlblCw5-89aGvl7cnTiAMKwkDVM4cKphfBmIojerdw_mSGOjp-gaP2ZGAjD_kZcfzKNxrWWqHL4zmGco6LbCJga/w640-h426/hawaii%20bench.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kiki and others on the bench celebrate during the game. <i>(Karen Hickey/ISIPhotos.com)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype
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Stanford women’s basketball team defeated the visiting Indiana Hoosiers 96-64
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This resounding victory vaulted Stanford to No. 6 from
No. 15 in the weekly AP national poll. It bumped Indiana down to No. 18 from
No. 9. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">With “great performances all the way around, (this
was) a great team win,” associate head coach Kate Paye said during the Behind
the Bench that followed the game. “Our team was really, really focused.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Starting forwards senior Cameron Brink and junior
Kiki Iriafen shared scoring honors with 20 points each. Both recorded
double-doubles, too, with Cameron snaring 17 rebounds and Kiki 11. Kiki
garnered cheers when she dunked during warmups.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Joining them in double figures were two other
starters: grad student guard Hannah Jump with 12 points and junior guard Elena
Bosgana with 10. Coming off the bench, freshman forward Nunu Agara poured in 13
points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Except for the fourth quarter, when mostly bench
players were on the floor and were outscored 22-21, the Cardinal dominated the
visitors. The domination extended to other areas, especially rebounds, where
Stanford enjoyed a 50-27 advantage. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Four of Stanford’s six blocks were courtesy of
Cameron, who notched the 300<sup>th</sup> block of her college career just over
halfway into the first quarter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And then there were the 11 3’s: two each by Cameron,
Hannah, Elena and the other starter, sophomore guard Talana Lepolo. Chipping in
one each were Nunu, freshman guard Chloe Clardy and redshirt sophomore guard Jzaniya
Harriel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The crowd of 3,678 did not include the band, Tree,
cheerleaders and Dollies. Usual announcer Betty Ann Hagenau also was absent,
replaced by a man who was too rah-rah in the introductions but toned down
during the game. On the other hand, DJ Hatt did not tone the “music” down,
making it difficult to talk with other fans. Earplugs helped.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Stat boards were off and on, mostly off. When they
did come on, they flashed too briefly for complete reading – very annoying. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As players left the locker room after the game, they
toted new athletic shoes courtesy of Nike, according to head coach Tara
VanDerveer, an IU graduate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After praising the “tremendous unselfishness of this
team” to start the Behind the Bench, Kate introduced the three “super
sophomores”; Talana and guards Stavi Papadaki and Lauren Green.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">She also commented on the team’s defense, which Tara
called “a big emphasis this year.” The game plan for this opponent and all
others is to “take away their favorite stuff,” Tara said. She wants the team to
play up-tempo and employs a tag team strategy with liberal substitutions. And
she wants the players to stay healthy and happy and to play for each other.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Despite this early season win, “we have a lot to
work on,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The work undoubtedly will focus on the Cal Poly game
at 7 p.m. Nov. 16 and the Duke game at 1 p.m. Nov. 19, both at home. ABC will
televise the Duke game.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-35174818302326156452023-11-10T10:14:00.001-08:002023-11-10T10:14:31.147-08:00Win over Hawaii opens season<p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwSLy0c81ruEKfIdKeWWsP9dqz0ykt78E19bfg8WNXqWpPIkDP1bk_IfdTVYXpTAfuuoky4sdkdIE6Eoj_ohwQtmiz2AND1FIDBh_gFBkt4iGWmwz-wGvoQ0_wJYoquL9mofa4xV37M26t12fsPM7SHrqtbbN5XvhtJT411qAC5sxppDgoDdRit5Ym54gr/s942/hawaii%20nunu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="942" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwSLy0c81ruEKfIdKeWWsP9dqz0ykt78E19bfg8WNXqWpPIkDP1bk_IfdTVYXpTAfuuoky4sdkdIE6Eoj_ohwQtmiz2AND1FIDBh_gFBkt4iGWmwz-wGvoQ0_wJYoquL9mofa4xV37M26t12fsPM7SHrqtbbN5XvhtJT411qAC5sxppDgoDdRit5Ym54gr/w640-h360/hawaii%20nunu.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nunu Agara drives to the basket during her 18-point college debut. <i> (Al Chang/ISI photos.com)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>The Stanford women’s basketball team started its season on a winning note, defeating Hawaii 87-40 at home on Nov. 8.</b></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4e63fb9-7fff-cbd1-6b6f-9beae84898d5"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Two players who made a big difference were junior forward Kiki Iriafen and freshman forward Nunu Agara.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Kiki, one of the starters, poured in 23 points and snared 13 rebounds in a mere 24 minutes.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Coming off the bench in her collegiate debut, Nunu contributed 18 points and six rebounds in 18 minutes -- a productive rate of one point per minute. Fans were impressed with her strong moves under the basket.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Also in double figures were junior forward Brooke Demetre with 12 points and junior guard Elena Bosgana with 10.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Joining Elena and Kiki in the starting lineup were senior forward Cameron Brink, graduate guard Hannah Jump and sophomore guard Talana Lepolo.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Cameron played only 17 minutes and had 8 points. Like her teammates, she was frequently subbed in and out. However, about halfway through the second quarter she went to the locker room accompanied by trainer Katelin Knox. She returned a few seconds later and sat on the bench and was back in action to start the third quarter.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>About halfway through the fourth quarter, Kiki went to the locker room with assistance. She returned to the bench late in the quarter and went to the bench.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Bench players took over for part of the fourth quarter. Thus, everyone got into the game, and everyone made a positive contribution whether by scoring, rebounding or assisting.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Apparently because inside play was going so well, the team had only four 3’s. Three of them came consecutively in the second quarter with two from Brooke and one from Hannah. Freshman forward Courtney Ogden made the other one later in the game. She also was the only player to foul out.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>The crowd of 2,535 included a student contingent with the band, cheerleaders, Tree and Dollies. A group in the student section waved handmade signs such as “Clardy Party” to support freshman guard Chloe Clardy.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>The team played tough defense, forcing Hawaii to shoot late in the shot clock. The Cardinal also enjoyed a huge advantage in rebounds, 60-18, and made 19 of its 20 free throws.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Hawaii had 11 turnovers, Stanford 12 – an area that head coach Tara VanDerveer will be looking to improve.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>The No. 15 Cardinal face a tougher test at 2 p.m. Nov. 12 when No. 9 Indiana visits Maples. ESPN will televise this game.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><br /></p></span>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-61388436397685309832023-11-03T11:02:00.001-07:002023-11-03T11:02:32.473-07:00Dominance over Dominion<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="361" src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/d7n4vhHpAGtJYgRdvaUMf39RWZic_61Ef3ouWfFP_6YQfE-fa9lkghlDbAzqHML0-vVxn6Zp-BU2fNEKkyzaZk5kliYJbVjZ4NNg8pNXfsyNQTD7PlX7YfK8vj72ICC8CzNQSpYzLAXQzV2iJi8UDLE=w640-h361" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hannah drives to the basket as Cameron defends for her.</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Although it was only an exhibition game over an
outranked Division II opponent, the Stanford women’s basketball team gave fans a
tantalizing taste of what’s to come with a 126-53 home victory over Dominican
University on Nov. 1.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Starters were five returning players: graduate guard
Hannah Jump, senior forward Cameron Brink, junior forward Kiki Iriafen, junior
guard Elena Bosgana and sophomore guard Talana Lepolo. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In a game with frequent substitutions, junior
forward Brooke Demetre was first in. By the end of the first quarter, which
ended with Stanford up 40-10, all 12 players had seen action.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The score grew more lopsided after the half, 78-18,
and the third quarter, 111-32. At that point, with no doubt about the ultimate
outcome, some people left.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dominican
outscores hosts in fourth quarter<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What they didn’t see was the sloppy fourth quarter,
when Dominican outscored the home team 21-15. Thus there is much that needs to
be improved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Although Dominican fielded 16 players, most of them
were shorter than the Stanford women. However, they were speedy, leading to
fast play.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No Stanford woman played more than 23 minutes –
freshman guard Chloe Clardy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Others playing more than 20 minutes were Elena, 22;
Brooke, 21; and freshman forward Nunu Agara and redshirt sophomore guard
Jzaniya Harriel, both 21.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="352" src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/FLU-OpCExX9L0aFVY9VKO4kisAUN7LvOcGaHdqQQREUENwRTavDMoS9BtMDoQo8qKOaBbLesNvxbAnqZRBZlH0v1orDIp1vp0fuQ1SahO6vioR-aIx_26hLaCl44zmxM_npQTGxw6UKpBN9TuQzSrKw" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" width="624" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elena scores one of her seven baskets.</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kiki,
Elena lead in scoring<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kiki and Elena led the team in scoring with 19 each.
Also in double figures were Nunu and freshman forward Courtney Ogden with 16
each; and Hannah and Jzaniya with 13 each.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The team lofted 13 3’s, with four by Courtney; three
by Hannah; two by Elena and Jzaniya; and one each by Talana and Brooke. Showing
her defensive prowess under the basket, Cameron had four of the team’s six
blocks. Also on the defensive side, the team had 13 steals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Since this was the three freshmen’s first
competition, much attention was focused on them. They didn’t disappoint as they
contributed a total of 40 points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rebounding,
free throws look good<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rebounding was a strong point with a 69-28 advantage
over Dominican. Kiki had 14 rebounds, Brooke 12 and Courtney 10. Free throws
also were impressive – 15 of 17 – after Dominican had fouled twice in just
under a minute from tipoff.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Attendance was recorded at 2,308. The crowd included
a large contingent of Dominican fans since the university is in San Rafael and
several of its players have local ties.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Because it was an exhibition game, there were no
student support groups such as the band and cheerleaders. Nor were any
statistics displayed on the boards in the upper corners. Instead, the one in
the southwest corner touted, “Welcome to Maples Pavilion – 50<sup>th</sup>
season.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Construction
leads to changes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The recently begun construction project that
involves enlarging ground floor facilities on the west side has led to the
closure of locker rooms there, including the one for women’s basketball. Hence
the team entered and exited Maples from the northeast corner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This project also affects parking. The small lot
next to the practice facility will be used for construction vehicles, thus
removing the handicapped spaces. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A few handicapped spaces have been marked in the
front row of the Maples lot along Campus Drive. More are available in the
Graduate School of Business garage across the street. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The spaces in the last row nearer the football
practice field also are available. From there fans can traverse the sidewalk
between the field and practice facility to reach Maples.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It still can be accessed from all entrances, where
there are bag check areas to accommodate people who don’t know about the clear
bag policy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Games that count start when Hawaii visits at 7 p.m.
Nov. 8.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Photos by Stanford Athletics</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-54561609246298392242023-10-29T11:16:00.002-07:002023-10-29T11:16:25.111-07:00Team tunes up with four-quarter scrimmage<p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanford women’s basketball fans got a second
reading of the team’s latest edition during a scrimmage Oct. 28. (The first was
at an open practice Oct. 23.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This red-white (actually gray) scrimmage took the
players through four quarters with longtime announcer Betty Ann Hagenau at the
mike and three referees overseeing the action.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The gray team included six men plus sophomore guards
Stavi Papadaki and Lauren Green. They were coached by assistant coach Erica
“Bird” McCall, returning to the venue where she played her college ball until
2017. She then played in the WNBA for six seasons before retiring to enter the
coaching ranks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The white team included the other 10 women led by
the other four coaches. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Starters for the white team were senior forward
Cameron Brink, junior forward Kiki Iriafen, fifth-year guard Hannah Jump, junior
guard Elena Bosgana and sophomore guard Talana Lepolo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Both sides made frequent substitutions to give
everyone a chance to play. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I didn’t keep score, but it seemed that the male-dominated
team won because of the men’s greater strength and speed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Overall, though, all of the women excelled at times
with several heads-up plays and fast ball movement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Eight women scored at least once from 3-point range:
freshman guard Chloe Clardy; sophomore guards Lauren, Stavi and Talana; juniors
Elena and forward Brooke Demetre; Cameron and Hannah.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The women hit all of their free throws (at least I
don’t recall seeing any misses).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">During the first break, Betty Ann asked season
ticket holders how long they had had season tickets by five-year intervals. The
last ones standing had had their tickets for more than 40 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thus their tenures were longer than head coach Tara
VanDerveer’s, who’s starting her 38<sup>th</sup> season at Stanford.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After the practice, Betty Ann briefly introduced all
of the players, both men and women, as well as the coaches and staff.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Most fans recently received an email about the
construction project at Maples. Estimated to last 18 months, most of the work
will take place underground (requiring excavation) to expand facilities for the
women’s and men’s basketball teams and the women’s volleyball team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The area between Maples and Campus Drive is fenced
off for the work, and much of the small parking lot next to the practice
facility is unavailable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Three temporary handicapped parking spots are marked
in the Maples lot along Campus Drive. Fans can access the southwest entrance of
Maples from the sidewalk along the practice facility next to the closed-off lot.
They also can walk along the east side of the practice facility and Maples next
to the football practice field to reach the northeast entrance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Besides the Maples lot, parking will be available in
the Graduate School of Business garage across the street.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Next up is an exhibition game at 7 p.m. Nov. 1
against Dominican at home,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-57508361483792627492023-10-25T11:38:00.001-07:002023-10-25T11:38:26.801-07:00Team gives fans a positive first impression<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Buck Cardinal Club members got their first
impression of this season’s women’s basketball team during an open practice
Oct. 23.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Afterward they trooped over to the Hall of Champions
where they heard from head coach Tara VanDerveer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">During the fast-paced practice, it seemed that
everyone had a chance to shine – that is, everyone except senior forward
Cameron Brink. She reportedly is rehabbing from an ankle injury, so she stayed
on the sidelines shooting free throws or riding a stationary bike. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However, when her teammates finished their
scrimmages, she joined them in practicing a variety of shots, including 3’s.
She appeared to walk normally.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Speaking of 3’s, I counted at least six players who
lofted at least one. Chief among them was grad student Hannah Jump, a guard who
has long been known for her prowess outside the arc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Also scoring from there were junior forward Brooke
Demetre, junior guard Elena Bosgana, sophomore guards Talana Lepolo and Stavi
Papadaki and redshirt sophomore Jzaniya Harriel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Because only 11 players were available, two male
practice players joined them at times, as did first-year assistant coach Erica
“Bird” McCall. A fan favorite, she graduated from Stanford in 2017 and went on
to play in the WNBA. During her stint with the Indiana Fever, she was a
teammate of Jeanette Pohlen, ’11. Now she’s on the staff with Jeanette, who’s director
of player development.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After the practice, the players lined up to
introduce themselves, starting with the freshmen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rather than going to the locker room then, five
stayed behind to be quizzed by TV announcer Mary Murphy. That quintet looked
much like most fans’ predictions for the starters: Cameron, Hannah, Talana,
Brooke and junior forward Kiki Iriafen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“This is going to be a fantastic season,” Mary said,
echoing what many fans there might have concluded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She also served as emcee for the reception, where
she introduced the staff and coaches, including assistant coach Tempie Brown,
returning to the Farm where she had coached for seven seasons from 2013 through
2019-20. She then lived in Michigan with her wife and two children and worked
as athletic director for Okemos Public Schools. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Welcome back, Tempie,” many fans said afterward, to
which she replied, “Glad to be back.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In her introduction of Tara, Mary noted that the
winningest coach has compiled a record 1,186 wins in 38 seasons. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tara enjoyed her time off by relaxing in various
ways and staying in touch with her 96-year-old mother, Rita, who lives in
Colorado.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She called the coming breakup of the Pac-12
“extremely disappointing” and “extremely painful.” Therefore, since this is the
conference’s last season, the team’s slogan is “best year ever.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She talked about the construction project at Maples,
which has just begun.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Most of the small parking lot closest to Maples, the
one with several handicapped spaces, has been fenced off, as has the lawn in
front of the building. Access to Maples from the main parking lot is along the
sidewalk next to the practice facility.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The underground project will provide a new, more
spacious locker room, training room, lounge and theater. An usher later said
other teams also will benefit from the project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tara was asked about the new transfer portal rule,
which allows players to go to another school without sitting out for a year.
This rule cost Stanford three players: Lauren Betts, Agnes Emma-Nnopu and Indya
Nivar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Conversely, it’s hard to Stanford to benefit from
the portal because of the university’s stringent entry requirements, especially
for grad school. “We’re not portal people,” Tara said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On the other hand, she said she likes the NIL, which
pays players for their name, image and likeness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A new group, Lifetime Cardinal, has been formed to
further that goal for Stanford athletes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">According to its website, co-founder Allen Thorpe
wants “the collective to organize summer internships, career services and
investment opportunities for Stanford athletes. … Lifetime Cardinal is starting
out as a for-profit entity. He hopes the collective can lure corporations to
tap into its Stanford talent pool for more than endorsements.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Former Stanford football great Andrew Luck, who was
at the reception, is a member of the collective’s board.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Commenting on the freshmen, Tara said, “We are
thrilled” with guard Chloe Clardy and forwards Nunu Agara and Courtney Ogden.
They call themselves the Tree-O.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She praised the returning players for helping to
mentor their new teammates. As for Hannah, she “lets me sleep at night.” The
NCAA calls Hannah the country’s second-best shooter (behind Iowa’s Caitlin
Clark). It calls Cameron the best rim protector for her ability to block shots.
These two, along with Kiki, are the team captains.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Overall, “We’ve been having a lot of fun. …It’s
going to be a great year,” Tara said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-16858279459070756742023-07-17T16:33:00.000-07:002023-07-17T16:33:08.786-07:00Kate optimistic about coming season<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioYgdOvCHYdyXMkvkX5gGTCsKh9njBgx2-X8uXEC8Mt9dbjhAfClVbKiCqSI0e8xIaQdqubok9SWB44G0WFz5QXp6uwClYKhSItkJv2hXV2DBb4AwW4DMKDP9k__pBH-ynKdVml8fAS7FzXwDjd-Dm7gFD1Coa7rHCGTKbs3bNefbrTbLVeitHsxRCiw4L/s1449/tara%20with%20freshmen%20stanford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1449" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioYgdOvCHYdyXMkvkX5gGTCsKh9njBgx2-X8uXEC8Mt9dbjhAfClVbKiCqSI0e8xIaQdqubok9SWB44G0WFz5QXp6uwClYKhSItkJv2hXV2DBb4AwW4DMKDP9k__pBH-ynKdVml8fAS7FzXwDjd-Dm7gFD1Coa7rHCGTKbs3bNefbrTbLVeitHsxRCiw4L/w636-h640/tara%20with%20freshmen%20stanford.jpg" width="636" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tara with the class of 2027, from left: Nunu Agara, Courtney Ogden, Chloe Clardy. <i>(Stanford Athletics)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To say that associate head coach Kate
Paye is excited about the coming women’s basketball season would be an
understatement.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“It’s all smiles at Stanford,” she said
in a recent phone interview.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She
has many reasons for smiling, starting with the three freshmen: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nunu Agara, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chloe Clardy and Courtney Ogden. They’re
having “a fantastic summer. … They’re very responsible and mature (and) fun to
work with. … I can’t rave enough about our freshmen.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then there is the staff, which she called incredible.
For example, Tempie Brown, who was a Stanford assistant coach from 2013-20, has
returned to the same position, replacing the departed Britney Anderson. Tempie’s
return “is a huge, huge </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">win for our
program.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Kate has her own
accolades, having been inducted into the A Step Up Inc. Assistant Coaches Hall
of Fame in May.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In addition, thanks to new NCAA rules, Erica
“Bird” McCall has joined the staff as an additional assistant coach, along with
Tempie and Katy Steding. A fan favorite, she graduated from Stanford in 2017.
She went on to play professionally in the WNBA and overseas before recently
retiring.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She relates well to the players and leads by
example, such as joining them in the weight room every morning. She’s “a great
role model and mentor,” Kate said. The only way her duties are different from
the other coaches’ is that she can’t go off campus to recruit, but she can
interact with recruits when they visit Stanford.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Another good role model is Jeannette Pohlen,
’11, who took on the new position of director of player development last
season. She focuses on off-court activities such as community service, alumni
relations and team bonding. Activities such as taking in a movie and planning a
cook-off are helpful in that bonding.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Also important focus for the staff is developing
leadership. “Our best teams had the best leadership,” Kate said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Nine of the 12 players are on campus. The two
Greek players, junior Elena Bosgana and sophomore Stavi Papadaki, both guards,
are in their home country playing on national teams while taking classes
remotely.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sophomore guard Talana Lepolo is in Madrid
playing on the USA U-19 team, which is competing in the 2023 FIBA Women’s World
Cup through July 23. Kate plans to travel to Spain to cheer for Talana and her
team at the medal rounds. “It’s a great opportunity for her. She had an
outstanding freshman year,” Kate said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7QmqecyR9sswxHlY3sCpE0_rkbb4SwKSyL2rffnpjOMSO4NDtUAE2LhSgFwp7gRLHuJmfPP5MdDLT2UVhyFSW-PrK27g6GV9iZbfis26a3xYL1KZBVcw2q80Yp2_CFLplZ5160m0DI8cJp-PVy0EnnCgvTR7IhH9RM8Mlf66TpYmXOQIeo6dE9fcnS94Y/s960/cam%203x3%20pac%2012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7QmqecyR9sswxHlY3sCpE0_rkbb4SwKSyL2rffnpjOMSO4NDtUAE2LhSgFwp7gRLHuJmfPP5MdDLT2UVhyFSW-PrK27g6GV9iZbfis26a3xYL1KZBVcw2q80Yp2_CFLplZ5160m0DI8cJp-PVy0EnnCgvTR7IhH9RM8Mlf66TpYmXOQIeo6dE9fcnS94Y/w320-h400/cam%203x3%20pac%2012.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cam hoists the USA 3x3 championship trophy in Vienna. <i>(Pac 12 photo)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Senior forward Cameron Brink is back on campus
after leading the USA 3x3 team to the 2023 FIBA World Cup in Vienna and being
named MVP of the tournament that ended June 4. Before that, she earned the
outstanding junior at the annual Stanford Athletic Board Awards. With her
blocking ability, “she’s a force defensively,” Kate said, adding that the team
will be built around her.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> S</o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ophomore guard Lauren Green, who was a walk-on
last season, has been granted a full scholarship.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> W</o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ith only 12 players rather than the allowed 15,
“we are counting on everybody,” Kate said. The summer quarter ends Aug. 17. Fall
classes start Sept. 26.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #2c2a29; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Judy Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822790799298247786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2776944702914093249.post-2080783988392670832023-04-15T17:51:00.002-07:002023-04-15T17:51:59.263-07:00Looking back: Part 3 of 3<p> Te</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5e0H0JIsXSdZUxsRSXui24907GISpaxztOSwVUkRFOu1D8dRxc4kzQd79qdtEiv1FXqWVV3IfNBIrssmy1QJe09PhXWtPhY7Sk1PVH1Q_hJjzczd-z4f7hxghNKl4Rb6h62rHR54wcfEB1ooIxpysMhNSe-PLWT1sW1Njxobs6gGrVbE2zcgJdhFWTg/s950/sacred%20heart%20scott%20strazzante%20chron.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="950" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5e0H0JIsXSdZUxsRSXui24907GISpaxztOSwVUkRFOu1D8dRxc4kzQd79qdtEiv1FXqWVV3IfNBIrssmy1QJe09PhXWtPhY7Sk1PVH1Q_hJjzczd-z4f7hxghNKl4Rb6h62rHR54wcfEB1ooIxpysMhNSe-PLWT1sW1Njxobs6gGrVbE2zcgJdhFWTg/w640-h426/sacred%20heart%20scott%20strazzante%20chron.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span> Players </span>celebrate Hannah's buzzer-beating 3 against Sacred Heart. (<i style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Scott Strazzante/SF Chronicle)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Going into the Pac-12
tournament in Las Vegas, the No. 1 seed Stanford women’s basketball team downed
No. 9 seed Oregon 78-65 on March 2. Stanford opened the game on a 7-0 run
before Oregon’s first score at the 6:30 mark. The Cardinal held the lead for the
rest of the game.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even though her playing
time was limited by fouls, junior forward Cameron Brink was in double figures
by about halfway through the second quarter. She went on to lead the team with
22 points plus 11 rebounds but no blocks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One day later, on March
3, the team was sent packing by No. 5 seed UCLA, which won 69-65.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The game started well
with the Cardinal leading in each of the first three quarters, but UCLA edged
ahead in the fourth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cameron posted a
double-double with 19 points and 11 rebounds. Senior guard Haley Jones also had
a double-double with15 points and 10 rebounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Players garner honors<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Although the
championship eluded Stanford, five players earned Pac-12 season honors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Senior guard Hannah Jump
was named Scholar-Athlete of the Year and was named to the All-Pac 12 Team
along with Cameron and Haley. Cameron was named Defensive Player of the Year.
Guard Talana Lepolo and center Lauren Betts earned honorable mention on the
All-Freshman Team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A few days later, before
the NCAA tournament started, Haley and Cameron were named All-Americans for the
second year. Hannah was named an Academic All-American.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a No. 1 seed in the
NCAA tournament, Stanford earned the right to host first and second round
games. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NCAA play starts with easy win<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Round one went well with
an easy 92-49 victory over 16-seeded Sacred Heart on March 17 even though
Cameron was absent because of illness. Redshirt freshman guard Jzaniya Harriel
also was missing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the team’s 100<sup>th</sup>
NCAA tournament win, five players posted double figures: Haley, 17, Hannah and
senior forward Fran Belibi, 12 each plus 10 rebounds for Fran; freshman guard Indya
Nivar, 11; and Lauren, 10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Because the team was
doing so well, no one played more than 25 minutes (Haley), and all 13 available
players got in. When freshman guard Stavi Papadaki and walk-on freshman guard
Lauren Green, who usually didn’t play much, got in with just under 3 ½ minutes
to go, they were greeted by loud cheers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NCAA play ends with tough loss<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two days later, on March
19, the unexpected happened. No. 8-seeded Ole Miss downed the Cardinal 54-49,
thus ending the season and hopes of advancing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ole Miss took the
opening tip and never looked back. Stanford trailed by as many as 13 points in
the third quarter and tied the game, 49-49, only briefly in the fourth quarter,
but didn’t score after that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Everyone was available
after Cameron and Jzaniya had missed the Sacred Heart game.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As reported by head
coach Tara VanDerveer, Cameron was not at full strength after a stomach bug.
Nevertheless, she led the team with a double-double of 20 points and 13 points
plus seven blocks in 34 despite being harassed and sometimes manhandled by the
Ole Miss defense. Half of her points came from the free throw line, where she
was a perfect 10-10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Haley played all 40 minutes
and had 16 points and eight rebounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Despite the loss, the
fans cheered the players loudly as they left the Maples court for the last time
this season. This was an especially poignant moment for the Funky Four seniors:
Haley, Hannah, Fran and forward Ashten Prechtel. However, Hannah will return
next season with the extra year granted because of COVID disruptions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The team finished with a
29-6 overall record.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Afterward, there were
more honors for Cameron: WBCA Division I Defensive Player of the Year, WBCA
All-American, AP All-American and one of five Wooden Award All-America finalists.
Haley also was named an AP All-American.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">At the annual awards banquet on April 5, Tara thanked everyone who had helped the team and saluted each player.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Later that week, it was announced that Lauren, Indya and junior guard Agnes Emma-Nnopu had entered the transfer portal. .</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">During the WNBA draft on
April 10, Haley was drafted sixth by the Atlanta Dream, and Ashten was drafted
34<sup>th</sup> by the Connecticut Sun. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With Stanford’s spring quarter under way, returning players are working out and looking forward to next season</span></p>
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