LAS VEGAS – March Madness more closely resembled Outright Lunacy when Gonzaga and BYU staged an indoor track meet that passed for basketball Tuesday night at the Orleans Arena. By game’s end, it was difficult to determine who was more exhausted: The players, the fans or the scoreboard operator.
Author: Howie Stalwick
LAS VEGAS – Here in this gambling mecca, dreams are fulfilled and shattered on a nightly basis. On Monday night, Gonzaga’s veteran basketball team effectively told the young Pepperdine Waves: Keep dreamin’.
The most unlikely of Stanford’s championship teams in women’s basketball was led by the most unlikely of heroes. Taylor Greenfield, a reserve forward who came into the Pac-12 Conference tournament averaging 3.7 points per game, scored a career-high 20 points to lift the 19th-ranked Cardinal to a 61-60 victory over California in the championship game
The California Bears have seemingly played “little sister” to Stanford in women’s basketball forever. Sunday night at KeyArena, the Bears intend to take advantage of their latest and perhaps greatest chance to make their mark on women’s basketball in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
No one scores like the Washington Huskies in Pac-12 Conference women’s basketball. Unfortunately for the Huskies, no one stops the Huskies from scoring like the California Bears.
Three so-so wins and a home loss to BYU have the skeptics gossiping, as per usual when Gonzaga approaches tourney time with a gaudy record.
Jazmine Davis has always been a big scorer for the Washington Huskies, but rarely has the senior guard scored bigger baskets than she did Thursday night in the opening round of the Pac-12 Conference women’s basketball tournament at KeyArena.
Pac-12 women’s basketball tourney begins a four-day run Thursday at KeyArena, where a hometown crowd will celebrate the conference’s leading scorer: Washington’s Kelsey Plum.
Sports Illustrated’s Doug Farrar and Chris Burke came away from the NFL combine with rave reviews for the Washington Huskies’ Danny Shelton, Shaq Thompson and Marcus Peters.
An ESPN story lists coaching at Washington State as the worst football job in the Pac-12 and 4th worst among big conferences. Wait a minute: You ever checked out USC?