With all-American Cameron Brink in foul trouble, Kiki Iriafen scored 41 points to lead Stanford past Iowa State and into the Sweet 16.
Cameron Brink and Kiki Iriafen are a formidable duo for Stanford, which beat Iowa State in overtime Sunday night in the NCAA tournament. PALO ALTO, CALIF. — Cameron Brink emerged through a black curtain in the corner of Maples Pavilion on Sunday night, about 70 minutes before she was set to play her final game in the building in which she became one of the most prolific players in Stanford’s storied women’s basketball history.
Brink represents the past, of sorts. She was a freshman on the 2020-21 team that won Coach Tara VanDerveer’s third national championship and first since 1992. She has played in two Final Fours, and this year’s No. 2 seed was the lowest of her career. At a lanky 6-foot-4, Brink is just the fourth player in the past 25 years to total 1,800 points, 1,200 rebounds, 200 assists and 400 blocks. Her five blocks Sunday set a single-season program record , after she set the previous mark last year.
“In the second half I kind of just remembered where we were at last year,” Iriafen said. “It wasn’t a great taste in our mouth. I feel like this whole season we had this loss last year in the back of our minds. We didn’t want that to happen two years in a row.”
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