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Bad news for remaining game.... Just before halftime, Melissa asserted herself and called a flagrant foul in what I consider the fault of the fouled person.  A K.al player and a WSU player are chasing a ball toward the corner.  The K.al player reaches out with the left arm, above the body of the WSU player.  WSU player then locks her arm around that arm and prevents the K.al player from disengaging.  Then the WSU player puts on the brakes (IMO to secure the foul) and goes down (feet first), she keeps her arm up and cocked in a position to lock the arm of the K.al player.

Melissa reviews the tapes and pronounces a flagrant foul.

If she had been reffing the Stanford game, I think there would have been two (IIRC) flagrant fouls against Stanford.
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I guess what ASU did was shut down 3 positions for Stanford and let the O team score what they could (not that it was easy).  The O-team had a more or less normal offensive output.  But they were almost on their own.

I think someone said K.al had the easier game today.  It is tied at the half 26-26.

Worst quote so far by one of the announcers:  "It's getting loud here in the Staples center."    If there are 1000 people there, I'd be surprised.  Maybe 500?  (Stanford box score doesn't show an attendance.  IIRC, for PAC-12 WBB tournament games, they only show attendance of the second game (as total for all who showed up even if they left before the 2nd game))

For anyone in attendance, maybe a good sign would be  "WHY L.A. ?"

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Bad news for remaining game.... Just before halftime, Melissa asserted herself and called a flagrant foul in what I consider the fault of the fouled person.  A K.al player and a WSU player are chasing a ball toward the corner.  The K.al player reaches out with the left arm, above the body of the WSU player.  WSU player then locks her arm around that arm and prevents the K.al player from disengaging.  Then the WSU player puts on the brakes (IMO to secure the foul) and goes down (feet first), she keeps her arm up and cocked in a position to lock the arm of the K.al player.

Melissa reviews the tapes and pronounces a flagrant foul.

If she had been reffing the Stanford game, I think there would have been two (IIRC) flagrant fouls against Stanford.
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I guess what ASU did was shut down 3 positions for Stanford and let the O team score what they could (not that it was easy).  The O-team had a more or less normal offensive output.  But they were almost on their own.

I think someone said K.al had the easier game today.  It is tied at the half 26-26.

Worst quote so far by one of the announcers:  "It's getting loud here in the Staples center."    If there are 1000 people there, I'd be surprised.  Maybe 500?  (Stanford box score doesn't show an attendance.  IIRC, for PAC-12 WBB tournament games, they only show attendance of the second game (as total for all who showed up even if they left before the 2nd game))

For anyone in attendance, maybe a good sign would be  "WHY L.A. ?"