Washington Women’s Basketball Upsets #2 Stanford 72-67

The Tina Langley period hasn’t gotten off to the best of begins for the Washington ladies’s basketball program. However in yr 2 below Langley the Huskies managed their greatest victory in a very long time by upsetting #2 Stanford 72-67. True freshman Elle Ladine set a profession excessive for the second consecutive sport and led all scorers with 21 factors. The win strikes the Huskies to 13-9 (5-7) on the season.

It didn’t essentially appear to be an upset was within the making early on. Washington scored the primary basket however Stanford went on a little bit of a run and held a 17-8 lead by the top of the primary quarter. The Huskies didn’t make a subject purpose for the ultimate 6:25 of the quarter.

Issues circled within the second quarter although as Washington received scorching sizzling. The Dawgs shot 75% going 12 of 16 together with a stretch the place they made 9 of 10 photographs. That allowed Washington to slowly catch and up and finally take the lead into the break by a margin of 38-34.

The nice vibes continued popping out of halftime. Dalayah Daniels made a layup with 7:10 left within the third quarter that put the Huskies up double digits at 44-34 and it nearly regarded like Washington could run away with it. Nonetheless a group nearly as good as Stanford was all the time going to make a run. The Cardinal clawed away on the deficit and ended the third quarter with the ultimate 6 factors to reclaim the lead at 54-53. That stretch included Stanford’s Brooke Demetre making her fifth 3-point shot of the sport.

It was extra of the identical initially of the 4th quarter as Stanford shortly scored 5 factors extending the general run to 11-0 and now Washington appeared on the verge of dropping management. The Huskies countered with their very own 6-0 run to tie the sport with the entire factors both scored or assisted on by Elle Ladine. Stanford star Haley Jones made basket after basket however each time Washington had a solution and neither group led by greater than 2 factors for almost all of the 4th quarter.

With below 2 minutes to go Stanford lastly missed a shot and Washington took again the serve on a layup by Ladine which put them up 67-65. The ultimate jiffy took for much longer than that in actual time resulting from a pair of prolonged opinions on the monitor by the refereeing crew. One gave the Huskies the ball on a 50/50 sort out of bounds name the place it was not possible to say with certainty whose fingers it went off final.

The Huskies left the door open for Stanford going 1 for 4 on the free throw line for a stretch. Stanford’s Demetre received up a possible sport tying 3-point try with 19 seconds left but it surely was off the mark and Elle Ladine secured the rebound then made a pair of free throws to ice it.

Stanford ended up capturing a better share than Washington each from the ground (48% to 43) and from 3-point vary (43% to 30%). However Washington’s protection nonetheless flustered the Cardinal at instances and helped the Huskies to a 16-11 turnover benefit. Extra necessary although was that Washington was dominant on the offensive glass successful the offensive rebound battle by an 11-2 margin thanks specifically to Haley Van Dyke’s 5 such boards. That allowed Washington to place up 8 extra subject purpose makes an attempt and eight extra free throw makes an attempt and overcome the more severe total capturing.

Haley Van Dyke completed with a double double securing 14 factors and 10 rebounds whereas Dalayah Daniels additionally scored in double figures with 15 factors and seven rebounds. Washington has one other powerful one up subsequent enjoying at #7 Utah on Friday evening.