On To Spokane

Stanford won their 63rd straight home game, undefeated for 4 full seasons, to advance to the Sweet 16 in Spokane. We take on North Carolina. Two absolutely electric crowds at Maples to give our finest a great sendoff to the Northwest.

ASU and UCLA in the NCAAs:

UCLA won their first round game beating Montana 55-47 in a game that was in doubt until the last minute. Jasmine Dixon had 15 points and 9 rebounds. UCLA was outrebounded and had only 6 assists and 19 turnovers.

Last night UCLA lost at Gonzaga 89-75. Darxia Morris scored 20 in her last game for the Bruins while Jasmine Dixon scored 18 points and had 10 rebounds. Courtney Vandersloot scored 29 for the Zags and had 17 assists, 8 turnovers. Kayla Standish scored 30 points for the 2nd straight game, going 11 of 14 from the floor. Gonzaga shot 56% from the floor.

ASU lost their first round game to Temple 63-45. Becca Tobin had 10 points and 8 rebounds. ASU shot 32% from the floor and 14% from three and had 7 more turnovers than Temple.

A note Utah lost their first round game but Michelle Harrison went out well with 10 points and a career high 16 rebounds.


Arizona, Cal and USC in the WNIT:

Cal beat Cal Poly in their first game 74-60. Layshia Clarendon scored 20 points and had 6 assists. Talia Caldwell scored 12 and had 17 rebounds.

The Cal lost, last night, to new Pac 12 member Colorado 81-65. Brittany Spears, a Sr, scored 33 on 14 of 19 from the floor for Colorado. Layshia Clarendon scored 20 points for Cal, who finished the year with an 18-16

USC won its first 2 games to advance to the round of 16. They beat UCSB 67-64 before a total of 290 Trojan fans at the Galen Center to win. WOW!!. Five USC players scored between 9 and 15 points and USC had only 5 turnovers.

Then USC beat Nevada 78-69. Jackie Gemelos and Ashley Corral each scored 20 points. Gemelos also had 6 assists. Cassie Harberts added 15 points.

Arizona lost their first game to Utah State 103-95. Utah State shot 52% so while the Wildcats Soana Lucent ended her career with her best game ever, 35 points and 11 rebounds it wasn’t enough. Ify Ibekwe had 15 points and Davellyn Whyte had 24 points.