The panorama of school basketball within the Bay Space seems to be pretty totally different since final season ended.
Tara VanDerveer is now not the coach of the Stanford ladies’s workforce, retiring following an unparalleled profession. Jerod Haase was fired after eight seasons of teaching Stanford’s males’s workforce. The Bay misplaced a whole lot of expertise, headlined by Aidan Mahaney transferring to UConn and Kiki Iriafen departing for USC.
Oh, there’s additionally the truth that Cal and Stanford at the moment are within the ACC, set to conflict with the likes of Duke and Kentucky.
Right here’s how the Bay Space’s faculty basketball groups fared on the primary day of the season:
(San Jose State’s ladies’s groups and San Francisco’s males’s workforce will play their first video games of the season on Tuesday)
Stanford (ladies’s) def. La Moyne, 107-43
Kate Paye, who has the unenviable activity of changing among the best coaches in faculty basketball historical past, didn’t should sweat a lot as Stanford cruised to a blowout win towards La Moyne of the Northeast Convention.
After seldom enjoying in her first two seasons, redshirt junior guard Jzaniya Harriel completed with career-high 24 factors to associate with 5 rebounds and three assists. Senior guard Elena Bosgana additionally loved a career-high 19 factors regardless of enjoying simply quarter-hour, whereas sophomore ahead Nunu Agara matched her career-high of 18 factors.
Christian Babcock has the total story right here.
Stanford (males’s) def. Denver, 85-62
Paye isn’t the one new basketball coach down on The Farm. Kyle Smith started his tenure as Stanford’s new head coach with a decisive 23-point win over Denver, this system’s 14th consecutive win in a season opener.
Main the best way for the Cardinal was guard Oziyah Sellers, a switch from USC who was born in Fremont and raised in Hayward. Vendor, this system’s first undergraduate switch since 2009, totaled single-game career-highs in factors (24) and rebounds (7) whereas recording two steals and a block.
Senior ahead Maxime Raynaud, the reigning Pac-12 Most Improved Participant of the Yr, totaled a 16-point, 12-rebound double-double whereas additionally totaling a career-high six assists. Graduate guard Jaylen Blakes, a switch from Duke, totaled 12 factors and matched his career-highs in assists (six), steals (three) and blocks (two) whereas junior guard Benny Gealer poured in 12 factors on a career-high 4 three-pointers.
Cal def. Saint Mary’s (ladies’s), 90-58
With reigning WCC Freshman of the Yr Zeryhia Aokuso nonetheless recovering from offseason knee surgical procedure, Cal simply dealt with Saint Mary’s at Haas Pavilion with a blowout victory.
Sophomore guard Lulu Twidale, a Pac-12 All-Freshman honorable point out final season, matched her career-high of 24 factors, sinking 5 of her eight three-pointers. Senior ahead Marta Suárez totaled 17 factors and eight rebounds whereas graduate guard Ioanna Krimili, final yr’s main scorer for the Bears, had 14 factors, three rebounds, two assists and had a game-high +/- of +40.
For Saint Mary’s, sophomore guard Emily Foy led the Gaels with 13 factors and 7 rebounds. Senior guard Kennedy Johnson, a switch from Idaho who averaged 14 factors and 7 rebounds final season, had 12 factors and 5 rebounds in her debut for the Gaels.
Cal def. Cal State Bakersfield, 86-73
Whereas Cal ended up with the 13–level win of their season opener, Cal State Bakersfield performed with aggression and vitality for 40 minutes, unwilling to easily hand the Bears a win. Whereas uncomfortable, Cal walked out of Haas Pavilion with a win to begin Mark Madsen’s second season as head coach.
Graduate guard Jovan Blacksher Jr., a switch from Grand Canyon, led the Bears with 17 factors, 4 rebounds and 4 assists. Andrej Stojakovic, the son of former Sacramento King Peja Stojakovic who transferred from Stanford, had 16 factors and 6 rebounds in his Cal debut.
San Jose State (males’s) loses to Western Illinois, 59-55
San Jose State’s season-opening loss to Western Illinois of the Ohio Valley Convention gained’t qualify as the largest upset of the evening. That distinction belongs to No. 13 Texas A&M, which misplaced to UCF, 64-61. That mentioned, the Spartans’ four-point loss to the Leathernecks at residence definitely falls into the class of surprising.
The numbers inform a lot of the story. Regardless of taking pictures 19 extra free throws than Western Illinois, San Jose State couldn’t overcome an evening by which it shot 35 % from the sector and 19 % from three. The Spartans felt the absence of their three main scorers from final yr — Myron Amey Jr. (switch), Alvaro Cardenas (switch), Tibet Gorener (switch) — was felt as they struggled offensively down the stretch.
San Francisco (ladies’s) loses to Colorado State, 52-47
San Francisco entered the fourth with a six-point lead, however have been outscored, 21-10, within the sport’s last quarter in what ended up being a five-point loss to Colorado State on the highway.
Neither workforce shot the ball notably properly; the Dons made 27.1 % of their subject aim makes an attempt whereas the Rams made 29.3 %. Senior guard Freja Werth, final season’s WCC Newcomer of the Yr, totaled 13 factors and 9 rebounds over 37 minutes.
