Take away the first quarter of Washington State’s Pac-12 women’s basketball tournament quarterfinal game against Stanford on Friday night, and you could make the case that the Cougars hung with eighth-ranked, second-seeded Stanford for half the game.
But this one was lost within the first seven minutes of play, when the Cardinal blew the Cougars off the floor by rolling out to a 21-0 start at Key Arena.
Stanford (26-5) trounced WSU 66-36 to advance to the semifinals, where it will face the winner of the Washington vs. Oregon game on Saturday evening.
Seventh-seeded WSU (12-19) started slow and cold for the second night in a row, but unlike their previous outing against Colorado, in which they excavated themselves out of a 10-2 hole, this time, there was no miracle comeback.