Bball Girl
12-20-2003, 11:17 AM
Great games await this week...
a great article from Voepel on ESPN
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/columns/story?columnist=voepel_mechelle&id=1689955
The Cardinal players all jumped aboard the Nicole Powell lifeboat, and it was just asking too much for it to stay afloat.
Stanford's problems, though, are the kind many teams -- including all the others in the Pac-10 -- wouldn't mind having. Still, it's tough for the Stanford program because it knows what the view from the very top looks like.
But playing the best teams is the way to go, even if that does cause the Cardinal and its fans grief. On Sunday, Stanford travels to one of the hardest places in America for visitors to win. Since United Spirit Arena opened for the 1999-2000 season, no non-conference foe has beaten Texas Tech at home. The last non-league opponent to win during the regular season in Lubbock (at the old Municipal Coliseum) was ... Stanford in January 1998. Then that March, visiting Notre Dame beat Texas Tech in the NCAA Tournament second round. Big 12 schools also have struggled in Lubbock; in the four seasons in United Spirit Arena, Tech is 59-5 at home in league play.
The other game of what's billed as the Big 12/SEC Challenge is a day earlier, on Saturday. That's Georgia at Texas (5:30 p.m. ET, ESPN2). Texas' lone loss was at Penn State; Georgia's only stumble was at Stanford. It will be interesting to see how Texas does against Georgia's interior duo of 6-foot-6 Kara Braxton and 6-5 Christi Thomas.
a great article from Voepel on ESPN
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/columns/story?columnist=voepel_mechelle&id=1689955
The Cardinal players all jumped aboard the Nicole Powell lifeboat, and it was just asking too much for it to stay afloat.
Stanford's problems, though, are the kind many teams -- including all the others in the Pac-10 -- wouldn't mind having. Still, it's tough for the Stanford program because it knows what the view from the very top looks like.
But playing the best teams is the way to go, even if that does cause the Cardinal and its fans grief. On Sunday, Stanford travels to one of the hardest places in America for visitors to win. Since United Spirit Arena opened for the 1999-2000 season, no non-conference foe has beaten Texas Tech at home. The last non-league opponent to win during the regular season in Lubbock (at the old Municipal Coliseum) was ... Stanford in January 1998. Then that March, visiting Notre Dame beat Texas Tech in the NCAA Tournament second round. Big 12 schools also have struggled in Lubbock; in the four seasons in United Spirit Arena, Tech is 59-5 at home in league play.
The other game of what's billed as the Big 12/SEC Challenge is a day earlier, on Saturday. That's Georgia at Texas (5:30 p.m. ET, ESPN2). Texas' lone loss was at Penn State; Georgia's only stumble was at Stanford. It will be interesting to see how Texas does against Georgia's interior duo of 6-foot-6 Kara Braxton and 6-5 Christi Thomas.