March 15, 2007

Inside job could carry Stanford far

By: Graham Hays, ESPN.com

Make no mistake, Candice Wiggins is the key to Stanford winning its third national championship (and its first since 1992). But Wiggins is like oxygen; she's always around, and at some point, a tendency develops to take her for granted instead of marveling at all she does.

Only Stanford found itself holding its breath earlier this season when Wiggins missed five games with a variety of the kind of injuries incurred when someone as wiry as the star guard plays perhaps the best all-court game in the country. And instead of passing out, the Cardinal survived by passing in, feeding the ball inside to Pac-10 country's tallest triplets this side of the Three Sisters peaks in Oregon. (More ...)

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