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Near the end of the game, I pulled up Stanford records.  IIRC, the lowest score by Cal vs Stanford was 35 (2008?), but with the 3s late in the game, Cal escaped that.   It's been a long time since I remember a 40 point win (which was the lead when I was looking, but not at the end), but even that would not be in Stanford's bests.

Do NOT think this game showed off how good Stanford was.  Instead, I think it showed how much of a mountain the Bears have in front of them.  I believe there was a shot of the Cal bench during the game with no players visible (2 shortly came out of the locker room).

Against that very weak team, Stanford did have a really good defensive game, but how much of that was due to their inability to put the ball in the basket versus our making that very difficult to do?  Offensively, we scored about average for us.
Rebounding:  We got 16 of 37 chances (42% !!) at Cal's end and 34 of 42 at our end (81%).  That is dominating.  And I suspect it was much better when our regulars left the court.   It is telling that there were more rebounds at the Stanford end even though we hit a much higher percentage of our shots.

The girl that dropped to the floor got a Lacie elbow to her mouth.  I could not see the foul from the TV view during play, but they showed another angle.  As Lacie went by, she raised her arm and her elbow caught the girl in the mouth (not jaw or nose).  From what I saw at the game, and what I heard on the TV, it appears a tooth was knocked out.  Ouch.   I don't understand why Lacie (on defense) raised her arm at that time, which wasn't being restrained or interfered with.  (Perhaps it is a move to narrow her body so she can get past an opponent more easily.)   We see Lacie play a lot, and we know she doesn't have even that many fouls called on her.  While I feel it wasn't intentional, I could imagine fans of Cal might think differently.  IMO, the play should have been reviewed and a flagrant foul should have been called.


After 15 games, a freshman is leading in high score games:
Haley Jones  4 - Miss St,  Oh. State, Davis, Cal
Lexie Hull 3 - USF, Buffalo, Texas
Kiana Williams 3 - Gonzaga, Tenn, UWash
Nadia Fingal 2 - CBU, WSU
Hannah Jump  1 - Syr
Lacie Hull 1 - No. Colo.
Ashton Prechtel 1  - EWU


Although Jones was high with 17 points in 26 minutes, Prechtel was notable with 13 points in 15 minutes.

Points/40 minutes playing time
Jump  100/189=21.2/40
Carrington 38/75= 20.3/40
Lexie 199/420=19.8/40
Prechtel  100/205=19.5/40
Moschkau 30/65=18.5/40,
Jones 185/405=18.3/40
Belibi 102/224=18.2/40
Williams 191/490=15.6/40
Fingal 119/323=14.7/40

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Near the end of the game, I pulled up Stanford records.  IIRC, the lowest score by Cal vs Stanford was 35 (2008?), but with the 3s late in the game, Cal escaped that.   It's been a long time since I remember a 40 point win (which was the lead when I was looking, but not at the end), but even that would not be in Stanford's bests.

Do NOT think this game showed off how good Stanford was.  Instead, I think it showed how much of a mountain the Bears have in front of them.  I believe there was a shot of the Cal bench during the game with no players visible (2 shortly came out of the locker room).

Against that very weak team, Stanford did have a really good defensive game, but how much of that was due to their inability to put the ball in the basket versus our making that very difficult to do?  Offensively, we scored about average for us.
Rebounding:  We got 16 of 37 chances (42% !!) at Cal's end and 34 of 42 at our end (81%).  That is dominating.  And I suspect it was much better when our regulars left the court.   It is telling that there were more rebounds at the Stanford end even though we hit a much higher percentage of our shots.

The girl that dropped to the floor got a Lacie elbow to her mouth.  I could not see the foul from the TV view during play, but they showed another angle.  As Lacie went by, she raised her arm and her elbow caught the girl in the mouth (not jaw or nose).  From what I saw at the game, and what I heard on the TV, it appears a tooth was knocked out.  Ouch.   I don't understand why Lacie (on defense) raised her arm at that time, which wasn't being restrained or interfered with.  (Perhaps it is a move to narrow her body so she can get past an opponent more easily.)   We see Lacie play a lot, and we know she doesn't have even that many fouls called on her.  While I feel it wasn't intentional, I could imagine fans of Cal might think differently.  IMO, the play should have been reviewed and a flagrant foul should have been called.


After 15 games, a freshman is leading in high score games:
Haley Jones  4 - Miss St,  Oh. State, Davis, Cal
Lexie Hull 3 - USF, Buffalo, Texas
Kiana Williams 3 - Gonzaga, Tenn, UWash
Nadia Fingal 2 - CBU, WSU
Hannah Jump  1 - Syr
Lacie Hull 1 - No. Colo.
Ashton Prechtel 1  - EWU


Although Jones was high with 17 points in 26 minutes, Prechtel was notable with 13 points in 15 minutes.

Points/40 minutes playing time
Jump  100/189=21.2/40
Carrington 38/75= 20.3/40
Lexie 199/420=19.8/40
Prechtel  100/205=19.5/40
Moschkau 30/65=18.5/40,
Jones 185/405=18.3/40
Belibi 102/224=18.2/40
Williams 191/490=15.6/40
Fingal 119/323=14.7/40