The Stanford women's basketball team was one tick past exhausted. The players had returned from a long trip just hours earlier, in the dead of night. The bus had dropped them off well past bedtime. And yet early the next day, at their coach's behest, the women were up and moving -- not at practice, but at community service.
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- The University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team lost 71-59 to rivals from Stanford late Thursday in California. The loss to ninth-ranked Stanford ended the Huskies' win streak at 90 games, the longest string of victories ever in college basketball.
Rich Elliott:The game is not something that Ogwumike admits she and her teammates spend a lot of time thinking about.
“I’m not a muller,’’ Ogwumike said. “I don’t mull over things. That was the last time we played them so we look back and see what we can do better. But at the same time we’re also focusing on we’re doing at this moment to really get on top.’’
Here’s what Ogwumike had to say about the way Stanford regrouped after suffering back-to-back losses on the road to DePaul Dec. 16 and Tennessee Dec. 19..
UConn is 87-0 vs. all other teams. And 3-2 vs. Stanford.
"It's not a national championship," VanDerveer said. "But it's a really big game and we're excited about it."
It was a giant game. An essential, electric game that won't be forgotten, by either UConn or Stanford, for decades and maybe a lot longer.
Auriemma’s comment after watching tape of Stanford’s 89-52 rout of No. 4 Xavier Tuesday: “If they’re as good as they looked yesterday I don’t think anybody’s going to beat them the rest of the year.’’
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