Bonnie bombs the Wildcats

The Cardinal kept up its excellent defense this afternoon and easily held the short-handed Wildcats in control for a 74-48 victory.

The Cardinal returned to its perimeter offense with great success — five players sank a total of 13 treys.

Bonnie the Bomber led the way with five of eight and was the top scorer with 17 points.

Amber sank three of four, Taylor and Lili each sank two and Kailee got one. Alex, Briana, Jasmine and Sara each tried once and missed. Karlie spent the afternoon on the bench resting a stepped-on ankle.

Chiney had another leisurely afternoon. She spent just 22 minutes on the court today, during which she scored 17 points and grabbed nine rebounds.

The Cardinal bench got 107 minutes of playing time today. Of particular note, in addition to Bonnie and her 3-pointers, were Brianna and Bird.

Briana ran the point for 20 minutes — almost twice as long as her previous high. She didn't rack up impressive statistics, but showed that she's developing into a valuable backup for Amber and Lili. I didn't notice any freshman mistakes. Her best stat, perhaps, was just one turnover.

Bird is still having trouble finding the basket and staying out of foul trouble, but she had a respectable seven points and seven rebounds in 17 minutes of play.

The last ten minutes of the game were played entirely by the eight Cardinal reserves not named Samuelson vs. the entire six-player Wildcat squad. The Wildcats outscored the Cardinal 17-9.

In other Pac-12 action, Cal beat ASU and USC lost to Oregon State. So Cal is now in sole possession of second place and ASU, OSU and USC are in a three-way tie for third place.

Here are game reports and commentary:

• No. 6 Stanford women find groove, beat Arizona, the Associated Press game recap by Janie McCauley
• Three-Point Shooting Lifts No. 6 Stanford Over Arizona , the Arizona Athletics game recap
• Hallelujah, It's Rainin' 3s, the Stanford Athletics game recap
• Stanford defeats Arizona 74-58 by Ray Hacke (Mercury News)
• Cardinal rain 13 threes on last-place Arizona by Tom FitzGerald (San Francisco Chronicle)
• WBB: Stanford 74 Arizona 48 from the CARDboard

The box score and play-by-play,

Stanford-Arizona postgame notes from Stanford Athletics,

The game recap video from Pac-12 Networks

A gallery of photos by Bob Drebin (Stanford Photo),

A gallery of photos by Robert Stanton (USA Today Sports),

And photos by Ben Margot (Associated Press):

Mikaela on defense against Breanna Workman

Mikaela still on defense against Breanna Workman

Bird keeps the ball away from Keyahndra Cannon

Candice Warthen drives past Lili