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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 […]
Oregon at Cal Cal is likely to run into Arizona, Washington St., or Oregon in the first round of the conference tournament. How good is the Pac? Arizona and Oregon could finish in the top 25 yet have to win four games in the tournament. That’s bad news for #11 Cal and #12 Arizona St. […]
This is new: Writing a game after watching it on tape, even though I was there. A Telegraph Ave. burrito started to betray me around halftime of Utah at Cal, and by the fourth I thought it might come blasting out from both ends. At the buzzer, I skipped post-game interviews and staggered toward my […]
Cal’s problem this season is playing 40 minutes, but they’re almost there. The Golden Bears were the equal of the Powder Blue Bears last week for three quarters, then vanished. (For one, senior guard Kemery Martin made her first eight shots — a few in a spectacular fashion I didn’t know she had in her […]
I said around Halloween that the AP poll was off for ranking Stanford as the preseason #2, because losing the Hull sisters and Anna Wilson to graduation was going to affect Stanford more than the voters thought. My friend the Stanford season ticketholder agreed that the voters weren’t accounting for Lexie Hull’s intangibles. (Whereas the […]
Stanford beat Cal 60-56 Sunday at Haas, after trailing 56-53 with 4:08 left. The Golden Bears’ last six possessions resulted in three missed field goals, two missed free throws, and two turnovers. One of those field goal misses was open from the elbow, and late free throws are late free throws. Make those, and they […]