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Adam Amato Emerald
Stanford guard Sebnem Kimyacioglu knocks Oregon’s Edniesha Curry to the floor while hustling for a loose ball at McArthur Court. The
Ducks led by as much as six points in the second half on Feb. 7, but the Cardinal fought back to win 77-72, their closest victory of the year.
Stanford pushes way to top,
seeks No. 1 seed in NCAAs
■After going 18-0 in the regular
season, the Stanford Cardinal
are the undisputed favorites
to win Pac-10 Tournament
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
As Oregon guard Shaquala
Williams put it, “Nobody’s afraid of
Stanford.”
Then again, nobody really wants
to play Stanford — at least not in
the early rounds.
As the first-ever Pacific-10 Con
ference women’s basketball tourna
ment begins today, Stanford is the
outright favorite to win it all — and
rightly so.
The Cardinal (28-1 overall, 18-0
Pac-10), ranked No. 2 in the coun
try, have won their conference
games by an average margin of
more than 20 points. Stanford’s
only loss of the season came to
then-No. 2 Tennessee.
Even more impressive, Stanford
is the only team, men’s or women’s,
to ever finish Pac-10 play without a
blemish — and the Cardinal have
done it four times since women’s
hoops became a Pac-10 sponsored
sport in 1986.
“We’re just going to come out and
keep on doing what we’ve been do
ing,” said head coach Tara Van
Derveer, who led Stanford to NCAA
titles in 1990 and 1992 and has been
to the Final Four five times.
“We know that it’s one-and
done, so I think you’ll see our team
playing better.”
One-and-done — if that were the
case in the regular season, Stanford
wouldn’t have anybody to play this
weekend. But all 10 teams are look
ing at the Pac-10 Tournament as a
Stanford guard Lindsey Yamasaki shoots over Oregon’s Cathrine Kraayeveld. Yamasaki,
an Oregon City, native who led the Cardinal in scoring, will not play this weekend.
new season and a new opportunity
to upset the almighty Stanford.
Any team considering an upset of
Stanford will have to figure out how
to stop sophomore sensation Nicole
Powell, the league’s top player. A 6
foot-2 point guard who can play
every position, she gives many
teams matchup problems. Against
Oregon on Jan. 13, Powell set a
school record with 21 rebounds.
“She is a future Olympian and a
future WNBA All-Star,” Van
Derveer told the San Francisco
Chronicle. “I don’t see anything
getting in her way.”
One less obstacle that will get
in Stanford’s opponents’ way is
senior Lindsey Yamasaki, the Car
dinal’s leading scorer who will
miss the conference tournament
because of appendicitis; however,
Stanford’s deep bench has been
its key this season, which in
cludes three-point threat Lauren
St. Clair and 6-foot-7 backup cen
ter Cori Enghusen — both of
whom would likely be starters on
any other team.
With the season essentially
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