Going into the second half of the season, the Stanford women’s basketball team sits atop the Pacific-10 Conference.
The Cardinal (17-2 overall, 8-1 Pac-10) scored a total of 194 points against the Los Angeles schools last week. It reached the century mark in points in a 100-75 victory against UCLA Thursday.
On Saturday, No. 4 Stanford was six points shy of reaching triple digits once more in a
94-58 effort that ended USC’s seven-game winning streak. The Women of Troy (13-5, 7-2) were stalled at second place in the
Pac-10 standings.
Freshman guard Candice Wiggins earned her second Pac-10 Player of the Week honor for Stanford on Monday. The La Jolla, Calif., native is third in the conference in scoring, leading her team’s high offensive output with 17.4 points per game.
Wiggins played a combined 48 minutes in last week’s explosive two-game homestand. She averaged 21 points per game, shooting 60 percent (12 of 20) from the field and
50 percent (5 of 10) from beyond the arc.
She was a captain of the USA Junior
National Team and a McDonald’s All-
American in 2004.
Stanford is the only team to reach
100 points against a Pac-10 opponent this season, something the Cardinal had not achieved since the 2001-2002 season. Arizona State is the only other team to score at least 100 points in a game this season
(102 against non-conference opponent Prairie View A&M).
The Cardinal’s only conference loss this season came against Oregon at McArthur Court. Its other defeat came one week earlier at the hands of No. 9 Tennessee.

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