Nnemkadi Ogwumike continued her string of dominant performances in the NCAA Tournament, and the Stanford women’s basketball team added to its string of team successes with an 81-69 victory over Duke in the final of the Fresno Regional at the Save Mart Center.
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The drive for five is in full effect.
The Stanford women’s basketball team, seeded No. 1 in the Fresno Regional, has steamrolled its way through its first three NCAA Tournament games and now sits one victory away from reaching the Final Four for the fifth consecutive season.
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Amber Orrange is the shyest person on the Stanford women’s basketball team, but her boisterous play in the backcourt could be the X-factor that gets the Cardinal back to the Final Four.
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The Sports Xchange
03/19/12 11:23 PM
The Stanford women’s basketball team continued its quest for a fifth consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four with a dominating 72-55 victory over West Virginia in a second-round game at the Ted Constant Convocation Center in Norfolk, Va.The victory was the 30th in a row for the Cardinal (33-1), the top-seeded team in the Fresno Region. Stanford’s only loss came against Connecticut 68-58 on Nov. 21.
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The Stanford women’s basketball team is expected to be at full strength tonight in its second-round NCAA Tournament matchup against No. 8 West Virginia, after sophomore forward Chiney Ogwumike participated in a light workout Sunday and is expected to play despite a bruised right knee.
Ogwumike suffered the injury in Stanford’s first-round 73-51 against Hampton.
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Finals don’t officially start at Stanford until next week, but a big test for the women’s basketball team kicks off in Norfolk, Va., this weekend.
After winning its sixth straight Pac-12 Conference tournament title in Los Angeles last week, the Cardinal (31-1) will launch its quest for a third national championship against Hampton (26-4) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
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Relegated to the College Basketball Invitational yet given a home game, the USF men’s basketball team couldn’t make a splash.
Reggie Moore scored 16 of his 18 points in the second half as Washington State pulled away from a one-point halftime lead for an 89-75 victory over the Dons on Tuesday in the first round of the CBI at War Memorial Gymnasium.
USF finishes the season 20-14.
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The Stanford women’s basketball team earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and will head to Norfolk, Va., to play No. 16 Hampton on Saturday, the NCAA unveiled Monday.
Stanford earned an automatic berth in the tournament by winning the Pac-12 Conference tournament, and their 31-1 record helped earn the favorable seed.
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While neither the Stanford nor USF men’s basketball teams reached the NCAA Tournament, both schools advanced to postseason tournaments.
Stanford (21-11) drew a No. 3 seed in the NIT and will host Cleveland State at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, the first time the Cardinal have played beyond the regular season in three years. The winner of that matchup will take on the Mississippi-Illinois State winner.
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After the Stanford and Cal women’s basketball teams finished 1-2 in the Pac-12 standings during the regular season, it seems only fitting they appear destined to meet in the conference tournament title game.
The each took a step toward that on Thursday.
The No. 2 Cardinal got 18 points and seven rebounds from Nneka Ogwumike and 16 points and 11 rebounds from sister Chiney Ogwumike to dispatch of Washington 76-57 in the quarterfinals in Los Angeles.
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