[81alum]

https://www.azdesertswarm.com/basketball...rd-preview

PAC-12 WBB scheduling from Arizona's perspective (they don't like it at all).

Having a clash against the Cardinal scheduled for 11:30 a.m. PST on the Monday after New Year’s Day is unlikely to draw any national attention to the Wildcats. It certainly didn’t draw the attention of ESPN.

Once again, this matchup between two Top 25 teams will be treated as an afterthought. It’s unlikely to hurt Stanford, which gets plenty of national publicity. Arizona, however, is still in the stage of its development when national attention is important.

Thank you for that link!  I do see Arizona's cause for gripes about the schedule.  The article has an interested paragraph from Adia Barnes about how she thinks the game will go.  This caught my eye:

I think they’re big, but we’re also fast and we’re also going to play pressure defense a lot of people haven’t faced. So, I think they’ll struggle with some areas and so will we, and that’s the part of the game.

Pretty clear she is hanging her hat on defense. Also points out that Stanford is in the top 1% for blocking, and Arizona is in the top 1% for stealing. They get gobs of points off of steals. Lepolo will be tested.

[81alum]

https://www.azdesertswarm.com/basketball...rd-preview

PAC-12 WBB scheduling from Arizona's perspective (they don't like it at all).

Having a clash against the Cardinal scheduled for 11:30 a.m. PST on the Monday after New Year’s Day is unlikely to draw any national attention to the Wildcats. It certainly didn’t draw the attention of ESPN.

Once again, this matchup between two Top 25 teams will be treated as an afterthought. It’s unlikely to hurt Stanford, which gets plenty of national publicity. Arizona, however, is still in the stage of its development when national attention is important.

Thank you for that link!  I do see Arizona's cause for gripes about the schedule.  The article has an interested paragraph from Adia Barnes about how she thinks the game will go.  This caught my eye:

I think they’re big, but we’re also fast and we’re also going to play pressure defense a lot of people haven’t faced. So, I think they’ll struggle with some areas and so will we, and that’s the part of the game.

Pretty clear she is hanging her hat on defense. Also points out that Stanford is in the top 1% for blocking, and Arizona is in the top 1% for stealing. They get gobs of points off of steals. Lepolo will be tested.