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Uploaded: Sunday, November 18, 2012, 9:51 PM
Shooting woes lead to loss at home, women win on the road
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| By Rick Eymer
Palo Alto Online Sports
The shooting woes for Stanford guards Chasson Randle and Aaron Bright continued Sunday and this time the defense was not able to pick them up.
Randle and Bright combined to shoot .095 (2 of 21) from the floor and the Cardinal men's basketball team fell to visiting Belmont, 70-62, in a nonconference contest.
The good news is that Stanford's guards can't possibly get any worse and it's likely they will get a whole lot better as the season progresses.
Freshman guard Christian Sanders had the best game of his young college career and that's also promising. He was 5 of 7 from the floor and scored 11 points.
"Individual efforts for us are important," Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins said. "We've got to get better. Defensively we weren't so bad but it's tough when you shoot 31 percent. You have to be able to reward yourself on offense."
The bad news is despite a talented roster, the Cardinal must rely on guard play and keeping the tandem of Josh Huestis and Dwight Powell in for the majority of the game.
Huestis set career highs with 14 rebounds and eight blocked shots. Powell missed both of his shot attempts and all but seven minutes of the contest because of foul trouble.
Huestis set a goal of becoming one of the top defensive players in the Pac-12 and he took a significant step toward that against the Bruins.
"He is starting to come into his own," Dawkins said. "He's figuring things out."
Powell's absence led to a void in the middle, of which the speedy Bruins took advantage.
"He's been playing so well too," Dawkins said of Powell. "He's a difference maker and he does so many things well. We learned a lot about ourselves with him out like that."
Nastic matched his career high for points and grabbed a career best nine rebounds.
"There were some mistakes at the beginning we don't normally make," Nastic said. "We needed to be a lot more focused on the little things and collectively."
Stanford travels to the Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas this week and will meet Missouri in the first game Thursday.
Women's basketball
Senior Joslyn Tinkle scored a career-high 25 points, Chiney Ogwumike recorded her second double-double in as many days and fourth-ranked Stanford beat Tennessee-Martin, 93-67, on Sunday.
The Cardinal (5-0) ended its three-day run with three wins, including a 2-point win over top-ranked Baylor to open the Rainbow Wahine tournament in Honolulu.
Ogwumike, named the tournament MVP, finished with a season high 25 points and 10 rebounds. She has three double-doubles in the five games this season.
Ogwumike wore a lei, as did Tinkle, and held a small trophy while celebrating the win with her team.
Sophomore point guard Amber Orrange also had a double-double with 12 points and 10 assists. She added seven rebounds.
Stanford finished the first half on a 14-5 run to take a 10-point lead at 41-31.
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Posted by Sports fan, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood, on Nov 19, 2012 at 10:54 am Hello Palo Alto Weekly/Online...
Consider departing from the ways of old-time journalism that never seem to give women's sports their due, and always put the men first... The women win, the men lose... so why does the losing team get the headline, the top billing, and the longer press coverage?! Puleez... It's not just your publication, but could you consider a progressive change?
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Posted by EMS, a resident of another community, on Nov 19, 2012 at 1:24 pm I love women's sports, but men are generally bigger sports fans than women, and men's sports are generally of more interest to sports fans than are women's sports. Perhaps this is the reason, wouldn't you think? Besides, the women's team has it's own article in the Weekly, describing their #1 ranking.
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Posted by Sports Fan, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood, on Nov 19, 2012 at 5:43 pm EMS, your argument creates kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy doesn't it? That's what people said about women's interests in sports before the 1970s, when laws were passed to stop the gender discrimination in organizations receiving federal funds (this doesn't include newspapers, obviously)... If the press reports less on women's sports, it stands to reason that people will be less interested...
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Posted by Rick Eymer, a resident of another community, on Nov 22, 2012 at 2:07 pm I appreciate any and all comments. I would like to point a couple of things that may help clarify things.
First, it would be a mistake to judge our men's sports vs. women's sports coverage based on this one article. The men were at home and so were easily accessible. The women were on the road (Hawaii) and thus were not as accessible. We often give the nod to the home team, women or men.
I would like to suggest you take a look at the body of coverage. We wrote a preview of the Stanford women's basketball team before their game with Baylor, headlined their win over Baylor, headlined their No. 1 ranking and followed the tournament win with a headlined story about Mikaela Ruef. That was all within the last week.
Volleyball, soccer and cross country women's teams all got their own headlines within the last week.
I suppose you could provide specific examples of "old-time journalism," but we'd like to think we cover Stanford sports fairly well regardless of gender.
Again, thank you for the comments.
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