[Baez87]

UCLA fans may have objected to Lexie's slap in the eye of a player in the last minute of play, although it was clearly meant for the ball. Lexie added insult to injury by grabbing the ball away from her distracted opponent before play was stopped by a foul call—this was fair, appropriate guard play on Lexie's part.

To be consistent you would have to be ok with a defender slapping a Stanford player in the eye then grabbing for the ball while the Stanford player was bent over in obvious pain.

I can't stand the UCLA coach.  IMO she acts like an obnoxious jerk on the court.  Every foul against her team is a bad call by the referee.  However, I have a hard time believing she teaches or encourages her team to play dirty to win games.

To change the subject, Stanford plans to have 4,000 students on campus for the winter quarter.

Just to be clear, IMHO Lexie did not intend to hit her appointment in the eye, she simply swatted at the ball and her opponent moved the ball, thereby taking a slight swipe to the face. The player didn’t "bend over in pain," she put her hand to her eye and stood there in pain. Had I thought that Lexie meant to do harm, I would have been critical of her. Actually, Lexie seemed to be conflicted as what to do. There was a noticeable delay before she instinctively grabbed the ball and, by that time, she was whistled for a foul. The refs did not review the play to see if a technical should be called, so no one seemed to see it as an egregious act. I simply used Lexie's example to make the point that a partisan might incorrectly perceive that it was a dirty play (it wasn’t).
In an earlier part of my original post, I alluded to an apparent undercut under the basket by Natalie Chou, but chose to call it "unintended." I did not imply intentionality on her part.
As for Cori Close, I didn’t imply anywhere that she was coaching her players to be dirty. I actually downplayed her current team's aggressive behavior. One of Close's hallmarks is tough, aggressive defense. When a player manifests that behavior on the court, the player might not get the subtleties of the strategy and venture into playground mode — that’s when it can be construed as "dirty."

[Baez87]

UCLA fans may have objected to Lexie's slap in the eye of a player in the last minute of play, although it was clearly meant for the ball. Lexie added insult to injury by grabbing the ball away from her distracted opponent before play was stopped by a foul call—this was fair, appropriate guard play on Lexie's part.

To be consistent you would have to be ok with a defender slapping a Stanford player in the eye then grabbing for the ball while the Stanford player was bent over in obvious pain.

I can't stand the UCLA coach.  IMO she acts like an obnoxious jerk on the court.  Every foul against her team is a bad call by the referee.  However, I have a hard time believing she teaches or encourages her team to play dirty to win games.

To change the subject, Stanford plans to have 4,000 students on campus for the winter quarter.

Just to be clear, IMHO Lexie did not intend to hit her appointment in the eye, she simply swatted at the ball and her opponent moved the ball, thereby taking a slight swipe to the face. The player didn’t "bend over in pain," she put her hand to her eye and stood there in pain. Had I thought that Lexie meant to do harm, I would have been critical of her. Actually, Lexie seemed to be conflicted as what to do. There was a noticeable delay before she instinctively grabbed the ball and, by that time, she was whistled for a foul. The refs did not review the play to see if a technical should be called, so no one seemed to see it as an egregious act. I simply used Lexie's example to make the point that a partisan might incorrectly perceive that it was a dirty play (it wasn’t).
In an earlier part of my original post, I alluded to an apparent undercut under the basket by Natalie Chou, but chose to call it "unintended." I did not imply intentionality on her part.
As for Cori Close, I didn’t imply anywhere that she was coaching her players to be dirty. I actually downplayed her current team's aggressive behavior. One of Close's hallmarks is tough, aggressive defense. When a player manifests that behavior on the court, the player might not get the subtleties of the strategy and venture into playground mode — that’s when it can be construed as "dirty."