SAN ANTONIO – Tara VanDerveer hugged each of her Stanford players as they climbed the ladder to cut down a piece of the net.
It took 29 years, but VanDerveer and the Cardinal are NCAA women's basketball champions again. Haley Jones scored 17 points and Stanford beat Arizona 54-53, giving the Cardinal and their Hall of Fame coach their first national championship in 29 years on Sunday night. “Getting through all the things we got through, we’re excited to win the COVID championship," VanDerveer said. ”The other one was not quite as close, the last one.
But we’re really excited. No one knows the score, no one knows who scored, it’s a national championship and I’m really excited to represent Stanford.