A review of games through Sunday, November 30

Cal, 6-0:

Beat South Florida 85-55. Devanei Hampton back with 9 points and 6 rebounds in just 10 minutes. Natasha Vital with 22 points on 5 of 6 from three. Lauren Greif with 15 points and 11 rebounds. Former Bear Jessica Lawson had 2 points and 4 fouls in 11 minutes.

Beat Texas Tech 68-54. Ashley Walker had a huge game with 30 points and Lexi Gray-Lawson added 19 points.

Beat Iowa 76-43. Ashley Walker with her 2nd straight game of 30 or more points, with 32 in this game. 16 assists to only 8 turnovers for the Bears.



Arizona State, 3-2:

Beat Hofstra 80-54. Briann January had 19 points, Dymond Simon had 15 points hitting 3 of her 4 three attempts, but had 7 of ASU’s 28 turnovers

Lost to Florida 65-60. Florida is 6-1 but their loss was to….Florida Gulf Coast. A bad loss for the Sun Devils. In fairness Florida did beat Florida State when they were ranked # 21. January 16 points, 4 of 6 from three. Also 9 assists to only 2 turnovers and had 6 steals.


UCLA, 4-1:

Beat Cal Poly 57-48. Nina Earl had 12 points. UCLA was 0 for 5 from three.

Beat Cal State-Northridge 96-53. It was UCLA’s biggest margin of victory in 6 years, and the Bruins had 22 steals. All this thrilled the UCLA crowd of 626. Erica Tukiainen led the balanced scoring with 16 points.



USC, 3-1:

Beat Santa Barbara 62-53. Nadia Parker is really back with 19 points and 8 rebounds. Briana Gilbreath hit for 18 points.



Oregon State, 3-1:

Beat Arkansas 69-56, a darn good win for the Beavers, defeating an SEC team. Four of the five starters scored 12-14 points. Talisa Rhea, who averaged 30 points in the first two games only had 5 points in 32 minutes.

Lost to North Carolina 82-78. Great game for the Beavers against a very highly ranked team. Brittany avis scored 22 points and Rhea had 18. Another sign of improvement, the Beavers had 3 less turnovers than the Tar Heels.


Washington State, 3-2:

Lost to Northern Colorado 86-79. Frosh Jazmine Perkins had 28 points and 8 rebounds. Her point total was the highest for any WSU frosh since they starting playing NCAA Basketball. Heather Molzen and April Cook both scored 18 points. Northern Colorado hit 65% to lead by 20 at half time. Only 8 turnovers for the young Cougars.

Beat USF 83-71. April Cook led the way with 22 points, 4 assists and 0 turnovers.


Arizona, 3-3:

Lost to Texas A & M 54-44 at home. A decent turnout of 1,600 for the Wildcats home game. It was a 4 point game with a minute and a half left. Arizona shot only 24% and had 5 assists to 22 turnovers, but the A & M numbers weren’t much better. Still a good game for Arizona against the # 8 team in the country.

Lost to Middle Tennessee State 77-57. Ify Ibekwe had 16 points, 10 rebounds and 10 turnovers. Arizona had 29 turnovers for the game. Reiko Thomas had 19 points for the Wildcats.



Washington, 2-3:

Beat Seattle 82-56. Four players with 10 or 11 points, plus Michelle Augustavo with 15 points on 5 of 7 from three. The young Guards, Kristi Kingma and Sarah Morton combined for 10 assists, although had 8 turnovers between them.

Lost to Clemson 85-67. Sami Whitcomb with 18 points and Augustavo with 15, including 3 three’s.


Oregon, 3-2.

Beat Wyoming in their only game of the week, 51-45. Frosh Amanda Johnson had 13 points and 7 rebounds. Micaela Cocks had 12 points, including 2 three’s.