Cardinal baffles the Bruins

Never has Tara's directive, "Take away what they like to do," been better heeded.

Steals? Stanford 13, UCLA 10

Turnovers? Stanford 14, UCLA 17

Rebounds? Stanford 39, UCLA 26

Drive to the basket? Not through Stanford's smothering defense

Lead the Pac-10? Not any more – Stanford 64, UCLA 38

Kayla was a beast tonight. She was as aggressive on defense as any of the Bruins, forced at least three held balls, scored the game-high 18 points, had the only double-double with 10 rebounds, had two steals and a block and came 35 minutes closer to breaking the Stanford career record for minutes played!!

Jeanette didn't make many baskets tonight, but garnered 14 points anyway – nine of them on 10 free throw attempts.

Nneka faked out the Bruin defenders time after time and scored 13 points. She also had three rebounds and two steals.

Chiney came thisclose to a double-double with nine points and the game-high 11 rebounds, one of them a put-back of Jeanette's only missed free throw.

Toni shed her defenders with her bursts of speed and sudden stops as she played the point for 20 minutes. She also had the game-high five steals.

A special shout-out to Mel, who, in her first game in nine months, stole the ball from Darxia Morris at mid-court, streaked ahead of her to the basket and laid it up and in.

Here are game reports:

• No. 4 Stanford Destroys No. 8 UCLA, 64-38 by Janie McCauley, Associated Press
• No. 4 Stanford stomps No. 8 UCLA 64-38 in women's basketball by Elliott Almond, Mercury News
• Stanford women crush UCLA 64-38 by Tom FitzGerald, San Francisco Chronicle
• Stanford women swamps the Bruins, 64-38 by Rick Eymer, Palo Alto Online
• Stanford women hammer No. 8 UCLA -- another top team bites the dust at Maples by Jake Curtis
• No Pressure Here: Stanford Stifles UCLA by Michelle Smith, Fanhouse
• WBB: Stanford 64 UCLA 38 from the CARDboard

The box score and play-by-play,

The game highlights video,

A gallery of photos by Rick Bales and Jim Shorin, Stanford Photo,

And more photos:

Mel's back! Nneka rises above the triple-team Kayla drives to the basket Chiney grabs the rebound Jeanette drives past Rebekah Gardner Nneka goes for the loose ball Mikaela stifles Atonye Nyingifa M-m-m-m this is sweet!