November 10, 2007

News from the New Haven Register

Jayne scoring two of her twenty points
Cardinal Clobber Yale

As Chris Gobrecht watched Candice Wiggins, Jayne Appel, Kayla Pedersen and the rest of the Stanford women's basketball team score pretty much at will on Friday afternoon, the Yale coach probably thought some introductions were needed.

No, not with the stars of the seventh-ranked Cardinal, but with the members of her own team, who, at times, bore little resemblance to the squad she was expecting to see in Yale's season opener.

Gobrecht began her third season at the helm of the Yale program by watching her nervous group of Bulldogs fall 100-44 at the John J. Lee Amphitheater.

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Here are the AP game recap, photo gallery and the box score from Stanford Athletics.

Competition still fueling Gobrecht and VanDerveer

They are less cantankerous now, a concession to age and perspective. But other than the circumstances that brought these two wild and crazy coaches together again at the Lee Amphitheater at Payne Whitney Gym Friday, not much else has changed about Stanford's Tara VanDerveer and Yale's Chris Gobrecht.

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UConn Series With Cardinal in Works

When the Stanford and Connecticut women's basketball teams play in the Paradise Jam in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Nov. 22, it will be the first regular-season meeting between the two elite programs in a decade.

The wait for the next meeting will come a lot sooner.

After her team defeated Yale 100-44 on Friday, Stanford coach Tara VanderVeer said that a home-and-away series with UConn is in the works.

"We're working on it," VanderVeer said. "Connecticut has a great program, and we'd love to get a yearly game, as we have been doing with Tennessee. We have to hold up our end of the bargain and do the things to make it a rivalry. With Connecticut, we haven't played them a lot, but our games have been very competitive.

"We are working on dates. We'd love to play them."

The teams played four times in a 46-month span from 1993-97. VanderVeer said the two sides are close to finalizing the deal for the series, which would start either in the 2008-09 or the 2009-10 seasons.

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