Next up, the Baylor Lady Bears

There are several superficial similarities between the Cardinal and their next opponent, Baylor.

Baylor returns all but one starter, star guard and top scorer Angela Tisdale.

Both teams struggled beyond the arc in their first game. The Lady Bears sank just three of 20 3-point attempts. Ros and Jeanette found the basket late in the game, and the Cardinal ended up three of 10.

They too have four freshmen. This similarity end with the number. In their season opener against Florida Atlantic last night with a substantial early lead and looking to rest the starters as much as possible before taking on No. 2 Stanford, coach Kim Mulkey subbed-in the four freshmen with a little more than six minutes to go in the first half. "The freshmen did about what you expect them to do," Mulkey said. Three minutes and 10 Florida Atlantic points later, the freshmen were out and the starters were back in to close out the half.

The freshmen got another chance in the last six minutes of the game, when they surrendered only 11 points. "They were much better the second go around," Mulkey said. But none appear to be of the same caliber as Nneka and Sarah.

"Stanford is huge, they have a lot of depth," Mulkey said. " We'll play hard. We're going to give it everything we have and see if we can make a ballgame out of it."

No doubt the Cardinal will do the same.

You can watch a webcast of the game on Baylor's All*Access channel, but it will cost you $6.95. Go to the Baylor Schedule, click on the Stanford game, then click the Watch button. And if you don't want to do that, remember that you can Listen Live on KZSU.