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Have the WSU women even held the lead versus Stanford during this 71 game losing streak?
Looks like 4 games within 10 points in the last 44 (1999) and one OT game.
https://wsucougars.com/sports/womens-basketball/opponent-history/stanford/74
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Stanford is a different deal. Brink, Jones, and even just 1 Hull is extremely talented. Maybe some drop off from last year with Wilson but very talented and deep bench. We usually out work teams but not really Stanford. They don’t take off plays.
We had a lot of trouble getting shots off. Better in the second half and we kept some contact. Did a solid job on defense. Not the result but saw some things today that showed we belonged.
We had a lot of trouble getting shots off. Better in the second half and we kept some contact. Did a solid job on defense. Not the result but saw some things today that showed we belonged.
That's an incomplete list of results. WSU Women's basketball started in 1970-71 with a 12-game schedule against regional schools only (Idaho, UW, EWU, CWU, Montana, Montana State, etc.) There was no conference affiliation until 3 years later when something called the NCWSA was formed but it was still a regional collection of schools. That morphed into the NWBL and brought in more Oregon schools (UO, OSU, PSU, UP) but still Pacific NW teams until 1982-83 when the NorPac Conference was formed, kind of a division of the Pac-10 that included a few of those regional schools. (Baseball did the same thing). That's when WSU women first played Stanford. But it wasn't until 1986-87 when the entire Pac-10 consolidated into one league/conference that the WSU women played Stanford annually.
More info than you want or need, but I'm sort of a WSU athletics history buff (not an expert!). Still, the winless streak remains. They've never beaten Stanford.
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Thanks, I didn't think that could be right. If Kamie stays, we might get one. It's just hard when their team is grown in a lab and our is grown from a take home kit you get off of Amazon. It's like that streak with Arizona in men's basketball. That lasted for like 18 years or something like. Just shows you how futile both programs have been.
I will argue that the job Kamie has done is up there as one of the best jobs not in WSU history, but college coaching history.
It was an interesting game. The refs were calling it very tight on both ends, which favored Stanford. They are so deep that honestly their second string would place second in the PAC12. Stanford never seemed seriously challenged and went out to an early lead, but we hung in there and kept it at 10-12, and then got a couple of 3's at the end to make the score look a lot better.
For some reason we persisted in trying to work the ball inside, where we were so overmatched it was ridiculous. We did well from the mid-range jumpers and got a few 3's, and the D kept us in the game. If we play them again, just shoot jump shots!
Honestly, both teams took the pedal off of the gas. We played deeper in the bench in the first half than any game I've seen. I think the coaches are focused on getting the win against Cal, which would guarantee a first-round bye. If that happens, we have a real shot at facing Stanford again down the road, and maybe we have a chance if one of the Hulls is still on the bench.
For some reason we persisted in trying to work the ball inside, where we were so overmatched it was ridiculous. We did well from the mid-range jumpers and got a few 3's, and the D kept us in the game. If we play them again, just shoot jump shots!
Honestly, both teams took the pedal off of the gas. We played deeper in the bench in the first half than any game I've seen. I think the coaches are focused on getting the win against Cal, which would guarantee a first-round bye. If that happens, we have a real shot at facing Stanford again down the road, and maybe we have a chance if one of the Hulls is still on the bench.
