 |
| 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. |
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.
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.
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 73rd at the line but missed the
second.
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.
It was a back-and-forth game with the lead changing
six times and the score tied three times.
Kiki
pours in career-high 30 points against Florida State
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.
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.
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.
 |
| Hannah is nearing a Stanford record for 3-pointers. |
Hannah
drains her 303rd career trey in Albany game
Three-pointers also were part of the story as the team returned home to defeat Albany 79-35 on Nov. 26.
During the second
quarter, Hannah made two in a row. One of them was the 300th 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.
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.
All 12 players got into the game and nearly everyone
contributed in some way. Bench players added 20 points.
Joining the crowd of 2,754 were the band,
cheerleaders and longtime announcer Betty Ann Hagenau.
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.
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.
Photos by Stanford Athletics
