The Cardinal’s conference win streak is up to 37 games.
The first full week of league play, which extended over five days and into a new year, brought the first win by an unranked team over one of the Big Five ranked teams while reinforcing Stanford’s position at the top of the heap.
Stanford shook off five early turnovers with a 17-5 first-quarter run against Arizona, which was playing for the third time in five days. The Cardinal led 36-22 at halftime and was not threatened in the second half. The Bruins, playing without senior star Charisma Osborne, rallied from eight down early in the fourth quarter to lead 64-63 with 3:37 left. Oregon State scored the next eight points and iced the 77-72 victory by hitting 12-of-12 free throws over the final 3:15.
Osborne had suffered a shoulder injury Friday in UCLA’s 82-74 win at Oregon after colliding with Ducks guard Taya Hanson. She leads the Bruins in scoring and rebounding and is projected as a first-round draft pick in the WNBA, so clearly her absence was significant. WSU coach Kami Ethridge was less pleased with the performance against Colorado, which used a late 8-0 run to complete a weekend sweep.
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