Thursday night games

[Bball Girl]

TAMU leading E. Washington 47-19 with less than a min. in the first half

Duke leading Colorado State (come on Rams!) 75-28 11:35 to play in the 2nd half.

[Bball Girl]

Finals
Duke 99 CSU 52
TAMU 94 E. Washington 40


At the half
Oklahoma State 31
Wichita St 25

[Jimi]

Final OSU 57, Wichita State 63

ISU 61, Minnesota 66

[Dale8R]

Stanford-Washington 53-53 7:52 left.

Duke slipping. Failed to score 100 tonight. 99-52 over Colorado State.

[Dale8R]

Washington up four with 2:40 to go.

WASHINGTON 77 Stanford 72. How about that??

[dem]

I just got back from this game--my very first PAC-10 game--and it was a TERRIFIC game! Very well played and hard-fought by both teams. Extremely talented play and dead-on shooting got Stanford out to about a 12-point lead TWICE, after UW had fought back to gain slim leads. Still the Huskies kept battling with aggressive play, great passing and gutsy shooting. The margin grew and shrank continuously and the outcome was still in doubt when the shot clock was turned off. Fantastic win for the Huskies over a top-10 team before a very loud and appreciative crowd (albeit dismayingly small by Big-12 standards).

[Dale8R]

How lucky you are, dem, to be able to go to Washington games if you can't see Big 12 games! I have pretty much followed their progress ever since SMS (OK, MSU) went out there for Regionals and were so well treated, even after beating the Huskies. Oklahoma's experience was not quite the same, as the Huskies beat the Sooners in the first round.

I love everybody on their team, and it is a true team. Coach June Daugherty regularly uses nine or more players, all of whom have been starters somewhere along the line. Emily Florence is maybe the most fun to watch.

I hope you keep going and give us reports. That attendance was 3,350 by the way.

TV Note, times Pacific:
• All three games on UW's upcoming trip will be televised on FSN: Thursday at Arizona State (5 p.m.), Dec. 31 at Arizona (3 p.m.) and Jan. 7 at Washington State (1 p.m.).

UW stuns Stanford
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2002700302_uwom23.html

[dem]

Dale, I will try not to start expecting ALL the games to be this good! By the way, in addition to Emily Florence, I would single out Cameo Hicks as the ice-water-in-her-veins star of last night's game. She reminded me a lot of Jamie Carey. And as the three-point threat, Kayla Burt was exciting. As an Iowa State fan, I hated to see so many UW players passing up good looks from outside the arc, but Kayla at least tried to keep the defense honest. (Stanford, on the other hand, has LOTS of players who love to shoot from the perimeter.)

[dem]

A couple more thoughts occurred to me that I figured I would pass along. I was able to walk up to the ticket office just before the doors opened and buy a ticket for a set in the third row, three feet from the floor. At Hilton Coliseum, that seat would have required about a $5,000 annual contribution and several years' history of holding season tickets. (And all the seats available in the arena -- about 10,000 -- would never have been enough to accommodate all the fans who would have wanted to see the same Stanford team playing in Ames, Lubbock, or Manhattan, among other places.)

Meanwhile, on the TV news last night, the Huskies' great victory garnered a total of 12 seconds of air time--with no video--on each of two major TV stations. In Des Moines, the same game involving Iowa State would have merited a full 60-90 second report including videos of game highlights, interviews with the head coach and players, and excited commentary from the sports reporter and news anchors--on at least three TV stations.

And that, my friends, is why (I suppose) Lindsey Wilson decided to play at Iowa State and Sheila Lambert ended up at Baylor. As Coach Fennelly put it, Lindsey wanted to play "somewhere where women's basketball is considered important. And in Ames it's considered very important." In Seattle, a metropolitan area of over 3,000,000 population, the biggest home game of the year draws 3,500 fans. Enthusiastic and loud fans, definitely! And the players were thrilled with the support they received. But still, for those of us spoiled by Big 12 fan support, it's a shame that the overall fan base is so small.