UA blows late lead to Stanford

SAN JOSE, Calif. ÷ Going into the second half last night against Stanford, the Arizona women's basketball team was primed to get revenge for last year's loss to the Cardinal in the Pac-10 Tournament final.

But the Wildcats mustered just 15 second-half points and blew a double-digit lead, losing to Stanford again, 51-46, in the Pac-10 Tournament championship last night in HP Pavilion. [Read article]

Radenovic adjusting to life away from home country

Across two continents, an ice-cold ocean and thousands of miles away from the Tucson desert lies a life Ivan Radenovic used to know. That life didn't include cactus gardens, five-page papers, pop quizzes or final exams, but it did have one thing in common with the UA: Basketball.

The regular season may be drawing to an end for Arizona's men's basketball team, but life is just beginning for the freshman from the city of Belgrade in Serbia and Montenegro. [Read article]

The Pacific 10 Conference named two Wildcats to its All-Pac-10 team yesterday, placing Andre Iguodala and Channing Frye on the list of the 10 best players in the conference.

Frye, a junior, and Iguodala, a sophomore, both received the honor for the first time.

Frye, an honorable mention recipient last season, received the nod despite being the third highest scorer on the Wildcats. He averaged 15.8 points and 7.3 rebounds per contest, but his most telling stat might be the 2.11 blocks per outing. The 6-foot-11 center is the active Pac-10 leader in blocks with 166, 70 blocks more than Rory O'Neil of Southern California, who sits in second place. [Read article]

A student section for men's basketball games isn't going to happen anytime soon, and yet, it's always one of the most emotional topics on campus each spring. Students get mad at the old folks for not giving the students what they want, while alumni yell back and tell us youngsters to have some respect for our elders.

Recent student letters to the Daily Wildcat have complained about things such as a rich, old lady sitting quietly at a game, doing nothing to cheer her team on and leaving 10 minutes early. [Read article]

San Jose, Calif. ÷ Moments before the opening tip of the Pac-10 Tournament championship game, the Stanford band played "Our House."

It would have been hard to find a more appropriate song.

The Cardinal came back from a 16-point deficit ÷ the biggest comeback in the history of the tournament ÷ thanks in part to the home-court feel in San Jose's HP Pavilion, which lies 20 miles from Stanford.

"Our fans were here. You guys rock," said Stanford senior forward Nicole Powell, the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, to a raucous partisan Cardinal crowd in a post-game ceremony. [Read article]

The Arizona women's tennis team just missed upsetting No. 10 Texas yesterday in Austin, Texas, losing 4-3.

The defeat dropped the Wildcats to 4-5 on the season, while UT improved to 9-1.

Arizona won three of the six singles matches in the meet, but won just one doubles match.

Juniors Maja Mlakar and Dianne Hollands notched the UA's only doubles point, defeating the Longhorn tandem of Katie Ruckert and Kendra Strohm, 8-4. Junior Kelly Perry and senior Debbie Larocque came up short against Petra Dizdar and Mia Marovic, 8-5. UA freshman Jessie Rochefort and sophomore Iza Ferreira closed out doubles play with a narrow loss to Kelly Baritot and Ristine Olson in a tiebreak, 9-8. [Read article]