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.
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.
Cam
returns to play against ASU
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Playing
Arizona, Cam and Kiki team up again
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.
Retaining her shooting touch, Hannah had three of
her four 3’s in the first quarter, leading to 15 points overall.
Jzaniya also was in double figures with 14,
including two more of the team’s seven 3’s. Cam had the other trey.
Wildcats
play tough despite shortened roster
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.
With Stanford outscoring Arizona in every quarter,
no one played the whole game. Talana had the most time with 33 minutes.
Stanford dominated Arizona in all the positive
stats, especially rebounds, 49-21.
These two wins helped the Cardinal to maintain their
top spot in Pac-12 standings.
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.
In case of rain, newly revised rules allow umbrellas in Maples if they’re small enough to fit into the clear bags.
