On one hand, it had one of the nation’s leading scorers in Aari McDonald, who has already matched Adia Barnes’ scoring records by putting up 30 or more points in five games, and became the first player in program history to score 15 or more points in the first 19 games of a season.
And, yet, it wasn’t sustainable in Barnes’ eyes. McDonald was regularly scoring almost half her team’s total points. It became obvious that this wasn’t a recipe for longterm success when Stanford came to town and swarmed her, daring the other Wildcats to make shots.