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The four best teams in the Pac-12 played amongst themselves last Sunday, though I’m loath to say that doesn’t include Utah. USC 73, UCLA 65 was so critical to the state of our dissolving conference that I watched that game despite knowing the score already. My takeaway from last weekend’s games — whereas you might’ve […]
During one of northern California’s coldest, wettest spells of the year, I spent Friday night in the garage. Around midnight, while I was compiling numbers from Stanford at Cal — Stanford 78Cal 51 Stanford was better and Cal was worse while Cameron Brink was on the floor. After factoring out the last five minutes of […]
Utah guard Gianna Kneepkens, on the watch list for national player of the year and shown in the background picture above, is out for the season following a foot injury suffered Saturday. Utah coach Roberts said in a press release that the “entire program is devastated for Gianna”. I’m a grain of sand in the […]
Hooboy, I’m more tired than usual. Fell asleep during Oregon at Portland, and Pacific at Arizona State. I’m not sure why. Some writers exert themselves in harrowing adventure, or running through airports. I sit on my butt, fueled with coffee and Spindrift. Advent of Code started, and that’s hard on my brain, because I’m not […]
Stanford 79 Albany 35 In the first five minutes, Cameron Brink had 2 points, 2 rebounds, 3 blocks, and 2 assists. She’s going to triple again, I thought, but Albany then stayed beyond Brink’s reach — until the 4th, when a Great Dane offensive rebounder tried to put it back, and Brink smacked it away. […]
I wince at the sound of ESPN announcer Ryan Ruocco’s voice. I don’t like televised basketball partly for Ruocco and announcers like him, but for Stanford at Arizona he was restrained, blessedly. With room to talk, color analyst Rebecca Lobo celebrated Stanford’s bigs, noting the Cardinal forwards are many in number and in inches. For […]
Considering our respective rankings before last night’s chess game, I expected to beat my opponent quickly, leave the chess club early-ish, and save myself from watching basketball at dawn. That’s as hazardous a manner of thinking for chessplayers as it is for basketball teams (and any competitive entity); our game was next-to-last to finish, and […]
Stanford 62 Oregon 54 I told you Cameron Brink would triple with points, rebounds, and blocks. I didn’t think she’d do it the next day. I also said Stanford would crush Oregon, because Oregon isn’t such a good basketball team, ranked in the Top 25 earlier because sportswriters like Coach Graves, and don’t like change. […]
UCLA at Colorado: Tied with 2 seconds left in overtimeOregon St. at Stanford: Tied with 2:10 in the fourthOregon at Cal: 1-point game with 1:28 remainingSouthern Cal at Utah: UU’s 20-point lead reduced to 6 with 3:06 to go As ever, it’s in how you want to look at it. I think: This is why […]
Stanford put last weekend behind them, and beat Utah 74-62 at Maples. Stanford’s Jones-Brink-Jump nucleus scored 63 points and gathered 27 rebounds, to go with 8 assists (other Cardinal made 4 field goals) and 5 blocks. Utah attempted 26 threes, and made 5. The Utes’ 3FG% in their first 16 games was .352, which dropped […]