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Stanford women keep up hot play against Georgia Tech, cling to NCAA tournament hopes
STANFORD – Stanford will need a deep run in this week’s ACC Tournament in order to make its 37th straight NCAA tournament, but at least it will be coming in on a hot streak.
The Cardinal (16-13, 8-10) will enter the postseason Wednesday in Greensboro, N.C., having won five of six games, including Sunday’s 87-82 win over Georgia Tech at Maples Pavilion.
“I think we’ve been playing really well and with a lot of confidence,” Stanford coach Kate Paye said. “Absolutely nothing succeeds like success, so we’re going to continue to build. Our team is all about improving and learning from the good things and working on the other things, and we’re excited to be going in with a lot of confidence.”
The Yellow Jackets (21-9, 9-9) had spent the past 11 weeks in the AP Top 25, reaching as high as No. 13, before falling out this past Monday. But they led for just 36 seconds Sunday.
Stanford shot 61.4 percent – the best any ACC team has shot against a conference opponent this season — led by sophomore forwards Mary Ashley Stevenson (7 for 9, 17 points) and Courtney Ogden (7 for 10, 16 points).
Ogden blew by her defender for an open lay-up with 5:21 to play to put Stanford ahead 79-78. A 3-pointer by senior Brooke Demetri extended the lead to 84-78 with 3:45 remaining, and the Cardinal led by at least two possessions the rest of the way.
Playing on her Senior Day, Greece native Elena Bosgana had team-highs of 19 points and six rebounds and was one of five Cardinal with three assists.
As a result, the Cardinal will enter its first ACC Tournament as the No. 11 seed and will face No. 14 Clemson, who beat visiting Stanford in overtime two months ago, Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. The winner will face the No. 6 seed — 25th-ranked Louisville — on Thursday at 4:30 p.m.
“I feel like our team has improved so much since the start of ACC play,” Paye said. “We’ve learned so much about ourselves. We’re really grateful for the opportunity. We’re used to the travel, we have a way we do it, and we’re excited to play on Wednesday.”
When Bosgana became the program’s first recruit from Europe, she joined a program that had just won the 2021 NCAA championship under Tara VanDerveer, then the winningest coach in women’s college basketball.
As Bosgana leaves The Farm, Stanford is led by VanDerveer’s longtime assistant and is outside the top three in its conference for the first time since 1987-88.
The Cardinal was unable to withstand the departures of Cameron Brink (No. 2 pick in WNBA Draft) and Kiki Iriafen (18.1 points, 8.3 rebounds for Big Ten champion USC) and an injury to two-year starting point guard Talana Lepolo, who had 264 assists in her first two years but was limited to eight assists in five games this season after undergoing offseason knee surgery.
Stanford finished a perfect 14-0 at home against unranked teams, but lost its three home games against Top 25 teams and was 2-10 away from Maples.
To have an extended stay this week, it will need to stay hot from 3-point range (Stanford entered the weekend 15th in the nation at 36.9% from behind the arc) and hope for a return from Nunu Agara, who is 11th in the ACC in scoring (15.9) and eighth in rebounding (7.6) but has played just seven minutes since suffering a concussion on Feb. 6.
There are signs that Stanford can bounce back next season. The Cardinal is a young team – freshman Shay Ijiwoye and sophomores Mary Ashley Stevenson and Chloe Clardy started Sunday while sophomore Courtney Ogden was the first player off the bench.
Agara is also a sophomore, and Stanford has three McDonald’s All-Americans in a 2025 recruiting class that is ranked third nationally by espnW.
But Paye said this year’s team isn’t done yet.
“They’re not scared. They’re not giving up,” Paye said. “They’re excited, they have confidence. I truly believe that our team can compete with any team in the country. We know that there’s a lot of external narratives… and we don’t really care about them. What we care about is the way we feel about each other and we want to play really well on Wednesday.”
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THE FLATS – Two generous, anonymous families have each given $10 million gifts to support Georgia Tech athletics’ Full Steam Ahead initiative and the Yellow Jackets’ football program, Tech vice president and director of athletics Ryan Alpert has announced.
“We’re incredibly grateful to these two generous families for their investments in Georgia Tech athletics and a championship-level football program,” Alpert said. “Led by these families, their relentless investments in our mission and their belief in our upward trajectory, support of Georgia Tech athletics and Tech football are at unprecedented levels.”
With these transformative gifts, Georgia Tech athletics is well on to set a new fundraising record in the 2026 fiscal year, as donor participation is up 21% in just six months since the fiscal year began on July 1.
Additionally, in just 14 months since the public launch of Full Steam Ahead in October 2024, Tech athletics has received nearly $90 million in new commitments to the initiative. In total, nearly $400 million has been raised towards Full Steam Ahead’s $500 million goal, which is a part of the Institute-wide Transforming Tomorrow campaign.
Georgia Tech continues to display its commitment to fielding nationally prominent, championship-level athletics programs. Notably, Tech athletics has committed to making more than $150 million in investments to its football program over the next several years, which includes the opening of the Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center in the spring (a state-of-the-art facility that will benefit Georgia Tech’s full body of 300-plus student-athletes), a renovation of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field that will be completed prior to the 2027 season, a continued pledge to provide maximum revenue sharing to student-athletes and significant new resources devoted to expand and enhance staff.
To fulfill these commitments, enhanced engagement and support from the Georgia Tech community is vital.
“We still have progress to make to achieve our goal of consistently competing for championships at the highest levels of intercollegiate athletics,” Alpert continued. “Never in the history of college athletics has success been so closely tied to resources, and now is the time to seize the opportunity to take advantage of the great momentum and energy that we’re experiencing on The Flats.
“Every member of the White and Gold community can play a part. We urge fans to get in the game. Whether it be through gifts to the A-T Fund, purchasing tickets and merchandise, corporate sponsorships – every manner of support is vital to the success of Tech athletics.”
For more information and to make a year-end gift to the A-T Fund, visit atfund.org.
Full Steam Ahead
Full Steam Ahead is a $500 million fundraising initiative to achieve Georgia Tech athletics’ goal of competing for championships at the highest level in the next era of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative projects for Tech athletics, including renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field (the historic home of Georgia Tech football), the Zelnak Basketball Center (the practice and training facility for Tech basketball) and O’Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable home of Yellow Jackets volleyball), as well as additional projects and initiatives to further advance Georgia Tech athletics through program wide-operational support. All members of the Georgia Tech community are invited to visit atfund.org/FullSteamAhead for full details and renderings of the renovation projects, as well as to learn about opportunities to contribute online.
Fourth Quarter
Less than two weeks remain for the Georgia Tech community to take advantage of the A-T Fund’s year-end Fourth Quarter Initiative, which gives supporters the opportunity to receive four A-T Fund priority points for every $100 donated to the Athletic Scholarship Fund through Dec. 31. The Athletic Scholarship Fund provides direct support for student-athletic scholarships and is one of the A-T Fund’s highest annual priorities, as it helps bridge the gap between endowment returns and scholarship costs.
Fourth Quarter gifts to the Athletic Scholarship Fund will provide donors with four A-T Fund priority points per $100 donated, which is double the two points normally allotted per $100 given. A-T Fund priority points are used to allocate benefits such as seat locations and parking for Georgia Tech athletics home events, as well as access to tickets for away games and postseason events, including ACC and NCAA Championships, bowl games and the College Football Playoff. To contribute to the Fourth Quarter Initiative and begin collecting four A-T Fund priority points for every $100 donated, click HERE. For more information, visit atfund.org/4th-quarter.
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Georgia Tech quarterback Haynes King (center) and his family react during a senior night event prior to his final home game Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025, against Pittsburgh at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta. (Hyosub Shin AJC)
As Haynes King’s time in Atlanta and as a member of the Georgia Tech football program wanes, the inimitable quarterback is soaking in the last few days with teammates while basking in the glow of winning a pair of individual ACC awards.
King was presented two trophies Tuesday — one for being named the ACC player of the year and the other for being named the ACC offensive player of the year — during halftime of Tech’s basketball win over Marist at McCamish Pavilion. The senior was joined by Tech coach Brent Key, Tech athletic director Ryan Alpert, Tech President Angel Cabrera and the ACC’s senior vice president for football, Michael Strickland.
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