Off to Lala Land

Stanford and Cal travel to LA to play USC and UCLA and they continue to be tied for the Pac 10 lead. Right behind the two leaders is Arizona State, hoping for a NorCal slip in Lala land.

1. Stanford 22-4, 13-1: Beat Oregon State 72-43. Jayne Appel and Nneka Ogwumike each with 15 points. Appel also had 4 of Stanford’s 8 blocked shots. Jeanette Pohlen with 8 assists.

Beat Oregon 68-49 with Nneka Ogwumike scoring 13 points and gathered in 6 rebounds. Sarah Booth added 11 and Lindy LaRocque added 9 points. The Stanford reserves scored 35 points. Jeanette Pohlen scored 11 points and added 7 assists.

Next Games: Feb 27 at UCLA, March 1 at USC.


1. Cal, 22-3, 13-1 Beat Oregon 84-42. Ashley Walker scored 24 and had 11 rebounds. Four other players scored 10 or 11 points including Shantrell Sneed who had 10. Cal out rebounded Oregon by 16 and had 9 less turnovers, while shooting 54%

Beat Oregon State 62-40 as the Bears and Stanford stayed tied for first place. Ashley Walker broke the Cal career rebounding record in this game, and ended up with 20 points and 9 rebounds. Lauren Greif had 6 assists and Cal shot 51%.

Next Games: Feb 27 at USC, March 1 at UCLA. TV


3. Arizona State, 20-6, 12-2: Beat Arizona 60-53, coming from 14 points down to defeat the improving Wildcats. Dymond Simon scored 18 points, Danielle Orsillo added 11 points, Briann January had 5 assists and Becca Tobin had 9 rebounds.

Next Games: Feb 26, Washington, Feb 28, Washington State


4. USC, 14-11, 8-6: Beat Washington State 68-57. Nadia Parker had a double, double with 10 points and 11 rebounds, although she was only 3 for 13 from the field. Camille LeNoir had 15 points, 6 assists but 5 turnovers. USC had 21 turnovers and shot only 40% in the win.

Beat Washington 77-53. Leading scorers were Brynn Cameron with 13, Parker with 12 and Brianna Gilbreath with 11 points. Kari LaPlante had 6 rebounds and 3 blocked shots. USC had a total of 7 blocked shots.

Next Games: Feb 27, Cal, March 1, Stanford


5. UCLA, 16-9, 7-7: Lost to Washington 59-49. Atonye Nyingifa had a double, double with 14 points and 10 rebounds. Darxia Morris came off suspension to score 13 points. However no one else made more than 2 shots from the floor. The Bruins had 23 turnovers and shot 30%.

Beat Washington State 65-50 as Doreena Campbell returns with a passion and scored 24 points. No one else had more than 9 points and UCLA committed 25 turnovers.

Next Games: Feb 27 Stanford, March 1, Cal, TV


6. Oregon State, 15-10, 6-9: lost to Stanford 72-43. Brittany Davis scored 12 points but Oregon State shot only 30% for the game.

Lost to Cal 62-40 while shooting only 32%. Brittany Davis scored 16 points but also had 6 turnovers.

Next Games: Feb 28, Oregon


7. Oregon, 9-17, 5-10: Lost to Cal 84-42. Ellie Manou and Taylor Lilly both had 10 points, bet interestingly Manou, the Duck Center, had zero rebounds. The Ducks shot only 31%. Michaela Cocks, Oregon’s leading scored only had 3 points on 1 from 9 shooting.

Lost to Stanford 68-49. Manou had 9 points and 9 rebounds. Lilly scored 12 and Cocks 10. The Ducks shot 29% for the floor.

Next Games: Feb 28 at Oregon State


8. Arizona, 10-15, 3-11 Lost to ASU 60-53 at home before 4,100 fans. Arizona led by 14 at one point but couldn’t hold on. Ify Ibekwe led the Wildcats with 10 points and I believe a Pac 10 best for the season 20 rebounds. Both Ashley Frazier and Country Clements had 13 points, although Clements was 4 for 18.

Next Games: Feb 26, Washington State, Feb 28, Washington


9. Washington State, 10-16, 3-12: Lost to USC 68-57. The Cougars had 26 turnovers and shot only 35%. Jazmine Perkins scored 17 points, and had 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 turnovers, and 5 steals. April Cook scored 16 points. Elbonee Coates had 13 rebounds but 7 turnovers.

Lost to UCLA 65-50. While UCLA had 25 turnovers Washington outdid them with 28 of their own. Jazmine Perkins had 13 points and April Cook scored 12 points with 8 rebounds.

Next Games: Feb 26 at Arizona, Feb 28 at ASU


10. Washington, 6-19, 2-13: Beat UCLA 59-49 to break a school record 12 game losing streak. Laura McLennan came off the bench to lead all scorers with 16 points. The Huskies truly did it with mirrors as they had 22 turnovers and their two big scorers, Sami Whitcomb and Kristi Kingma were only 3 of 16 from the floor.

Lost to USC 77-53. Washington shot only 30% and had 8 players between 4 and the high of 8 points. Christina Rozier had 10 rebounds.

Next Games: Feb 26 at ASU, Feb 28 at Arizona