Stanford Seniors Save the day for Stanford Women's Basketball

Dear me, it's the end of February already and Ca and R haven't blogged even once. And we even had a New Year's resolution to blog more, after all the Stanford Women's Basketball team battled Covid, went on the road for 63 days, couldn't do laundry or even sleep in their own beds and still won the National Championship, the lease we could do was write a little bog now and then.

Sigh, okay here goes. Stanford won the PAC-12 regular season championship by going undefeated in conference play (16-0). Yay. The last two games, though, their offense stalled. Boo. This team, so Jekyll and Hyde.

The last game of the season was against lowly Washington, and if not for the defense to offensive heroics of SIXTH year senior Anna Wilson, all would have been lost.

Speaking of seniors, sixth year or otherwise, it was senior day for Stanford, and years ago Stanford smartly moved the ceremony to after the game. Anna said 'Stanford's meant absolutely everything to me' after the win. Believe me, there was a lot of water works as Stanford honored Alyssa Jerome, Anna Wilson, graduate transfer Jordan Hamilton and sisters Lexie and Lacie Hull. 

Oh, we do have to share one story Mrs. Hull shared about wihen Tara was recruiting their daughters. She asked Tara what do the players do for fun. Tara had a blank look and then said, we win, that's what we do for fun (Tara is never not thinking about winning).

So, as mentioned previously, Stanford finished the PAC-12 season undefeated for the 8th time in program history. How hard is that to do once? Well no other Pac-12 program has done it once. Stanford's done it 8 times! And, Tara VanDerveer continues to extend her record as the winningest women's basketball coach in D-1 history with 1150 career wins and is just two wins away from 1,000 with Stanford. Must people talk about setting a a culture of excellence. Tara lives and breathes it.

It looks like C and R are going to the PAC-12 tournament, so hopefully we can give you updates from courtside (if we are not too busy gambling or playing pickleball!).

Hope to be more verbal on the blog in the coming days as we head into March. 

Yours in Basketball,

C and R

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