Seattle who?

Don't miss your last chance to see Nneka, Lindy, Grace and maybe Sarah (that's a hope, not a rumor) play at Maples:

• Wednesday at 7:00 vs Seattle U. Watch on Stanford All-Access. listen on KZSU.

Go to Kissick Auditorium after the game for a meeting with Seattle U's head coach Joan Bonvicini. She was formerly the head coach at the University of Arizona for many years.

  Seattle U Redhawks

Seattle University, founded in 1891, is a Jesuit Catholic university located in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Seattle U was in NCAA Division I, in the West Coast Conference (WCC), from 1971 to 1980, when financial difficulties caused them to cut back on athletic expenditures and drop down to Division III. They began an NCAA four-year reclassification period in 2009, with Joan Bonvicini heading the women's basketball program.

During the reclassification period, a university is not allowed to belong to a conference – it plays as an independent institution. Seattle U will join the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) next season as a fully-qualified Division I institution. (They applied for membership back into the WCC, but that didn't work out.)

Coach Bonvicini has taken the team from a 6-24 record in 2009-10 to 8-22 last season and 17-9 so far this season. They stand in the upper half of the 342 Division I teams with an RPI of 143 and a schedule strength rank of 195.

The Seattle U starters are:

• #11, 5'11" senior guard Talisa Rhea is in her first active season at Seattle after tranferring from Oregon State in 2010. She leads the offense for the Redhawks and takes very good care of the ball — 5.3 assists to 3.3 turnovers for a ratio of 1.6 (that would rank 4th in the Pac-12). She is also their leading scorer with 13.9 points per game and one of their two top three-point shooters with 1.8 per game.


• #41, 6'2" sophomore forward Kacie Sowell is the Redhawks' best rebounder (9.6 rpg) and their second-best scorer, just a hair behind Rhea with 13.8 ppg. She's had double-doubles in half of the Redhawks games this season.


• #14, 5'11" sophomore forward Ashley Ward is the Redhawks' third double-digit scorer with 10.9 points per game.


• #5, 5'7"senior guard Elle Kerfoot averages 8.8 points per game. She takes 61% of her shots from beyond the arc and makes 37% of them for an average of 1.9 per game.


• #1, 5'10" sophomore guard Sylvia Shepard averages 6.7 points and 5.0 rebounds per game.

Coming off the bench for 10-17 minutes a game are junior point guard Daidra Brown, junior forward Brenda Adhiambo, senior forward Maggie McCarthy and junior guard Amani Butler. They combine for about 17 points and 11.5 rebounds per game.

Here are Seattle U's 2011-12 statistics and their roster.