The first week of play, all exhibitions

1. Stanford: McCall and Kailee Johnson will be very good. The screens will help our very good three point shooters be even better.
Top Player: Amber Orrange
Top Newcomer: Kaylee Johnson

Beat Vanguard 105-50. Lili Thompson with 26 points, Frosh Kaylee Johnson with 12 points and 16 rebounds and Erica McCall with 15 points and 10 rebounds.

Beat UCSD 74-51. McCall with 18 points and 8 rebounds. Taylor Greenfield had 16 points and both Kaylee Johnson and Amber Orrange had 12 rebounds. The downside, Stanford shot just 37%.

Nov 14 Boston College, Nov 17 UConn, Nov 20 Texas



2. Cal: Hard to beat the combo of Gray and Boyd and their pretty easy schedule. But they lost two very good Srs and the frosh won’t replace them for a while.

Top Player: Well got to pick two Reshanda Gray and Brittany Boyd.
Top Newcomer: Two again Gabby Green and Mikayla Cowling

Beat Vanguard 75-42. Courtney Range had 15 points and 11 rebounds while Brittany Boyd had 12 points and 9 assists. Cal was just 4 of 21 from three but dominated inside even without Reshanda Gray as they were 60% inside the three point line.

Nov 16 at UOP, Nov 18 Nevada, Nov 21 at Hawaii




3. Oregon State: Great guards and the big post Hamlin.
Top Player: Sydney Wiese
Top Newcomer: Marie Gulich

Beat Western Oregon 98-38. Jamie Weisner had 25 points, 10 of 10 from the floor including 5 of 5 from three.

Nov 14 Portland, Nov 16 Utah State, Nov 22 Concordia of Oregon



4. Washington: The best Guards in the conference and I’m banking on Collier to be all the way back. They will rain threes. Great depth which was missing last season.

Top Player: Kelsey Plum
Top Newcomer: Heather Corral back from injury

Nov 14 at Oklahoma, Nov 20 South Dakota, Nov 23 Yale, Nov 27 Florida State in Cancun



5 UCLA: Players back from injury a great player in Fields and the # 1 recruiting class. Still maybe a year away.
Top Player: Nirra Fields

Top Newcomer: Two again or maybe three Recee Caldwell, Jordin Canada and Monique Billings

Beat Westmont 92-54 with an amazing 61 fouls called. Frosh Paulina Hesler had 14 points and 13 rebounds. Kari Korver had 4 threes. UCLA only shot 36%, but did make 10 threes at 37%.

Nov 14 at James Madison, Nov 16 at North Carolina, Nov 23 Texas



6. USC: The graduation of Harberts hurts but the loss of Crook really hurts.
Top Player: Alexya Vaioletama
Top Newcomer: Alexis Lloyd who transferred in last year.

Beat Concordia 120 -56. Frosh Kristen Simon made her debut with 19 points and 15 rebounds in just 16 minutes.

Nov 15 at South Carolina, Nov 17 at Davidson, Nov 21 at Long Beach State



7. Washington State: They have most back from last year and they have their best team in years.
Top Player: Lia Gladeira
Top Newcomer: Louise Brown from Australia

Beat Central Methodist 71-56 with Lia Gladeira scoring 26 points.

Nov 14 Dayton, Nov 16 Idaho State, Nov 19 Nebraska, Nov 21 Seattle




8. Oregon: New Coach new philosophy and some good players.
Top Player: Jillian Alleyne
Top Newcomer: Jacinta Vandenberg

Beat Westmont 81-44. Jillian Alleyne had 12 points and 10 rebounds.

Nov 14 Utah State, Nov 23 North Carolina, Nov 25 Portland State



9. ASU: Two really good young players in Moos and Brunner but Charlie does it year after year so probably will do better than 8th.
Top Player: Kelsey Moos and Sophie Brunner
Top Newcomer: Ayanna Edwards

Nov 14 Middle Tennessee, Nov 19 Cal State Bakersfield, Nov 25 at Miami of Florida, Nov 28 Villanova in Florida



10. Colorado: Tough league which is best ever in depth. Loss of Roberson really hurts.
Top Player: Jen Reese
Top Newcomer: Alina Hartman from Germany

Beat Colorado State, Pueblo 90-57. Very balanced scoring.

Nov 15 WNIT North Dakota, Nov 16 WNIT TBD, Nov 19 WNIT TBD




11. Utah: The return of Wicijowski is a big boost.
Top Player: Taryn Wicijowski
Top newcomer: Wicijowski who missed last season with an ACL.

LOST to Alaska Anchorage 67-61 despite going 11 of 22 from three.

Nov 14 San Jose State, Nov 20 at Creighton, Nov 23 at Nebraska




12. Arizona: Again.
Top Player: Candice Warthen
Top Newcomer: Taryn Griffey

Nov 11 Concordia, exhibition, Nov 17 Cal State Bakersfield, Nov 21 at Texas Tech, Nov 25 UCSB