Make room for Cal

Laurence Miedema (The Mercury News) reports that the most heralded recruiting class in Cal history is determined to help the Bears give Stanford a run for its money on the Bay Area women's basketball scene.

Here are some quotes from his story:

• Tara:" It creates a buzz about women's basketball in the Bay Area. There is plenty of room for great teams and great players out here. It's a good rivalry and a healthy rivalry. There's nothing that says that we both couldn't go to the Elite Eight or the Final Four."
  
  
• Joanna Boyle: "I try not to compare us, because the schools and the teams are so different. But (Stanford Coach Tara VanDerveer) has set a really high bar. I just felt that in time we could be one of the elite teams in the country, and I want to also do it on a consistent basis."
  
  

• Candice:" I didn't like people thinking we were the only good team in the Pac-10. Cal's success is good for everybody."
  
  

• Alexis Gray-Lawson: "This is the reason we (Alexis and Devanei Hampton and Ashley Walker) decided to come here. We wanted to make a name for ourselves."

Here is the whole story,
the Stanford women's basketball preview,
the Cal women's basketball preview,
the Santa Clara women's basketball preview and
the San Jose State women's basketball preview,