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Freshman-led UW Women's Team Pulls Shocker, Upsets Stanford

First-year guard Elle Ladine tops all scorers with 21 points.

Dan Raley

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To deal with No. 2-ranked Stanford, the University of Washington women's basketball team turned to its own Bay Area talent to pull off a huge 72-67 upset at Alaska Airlines Arena.

On Sunday afternoon, freshman guard Elle Ladine led all scorers with 21 points, with her jumper in the key breaking a tie at 65 for the Huskies with 1:40 left and igniting a 7-2 rush to the buzzer.

All of this enabled the UW (13-9 overall, 5-7 Pac-12) to beat the Cardinal (22-3, 10-2) for the first time in seven years. 

Ladine, a 5-foot-11 first-year player from San Francisco, came off the bench to do her damage to the Stanford powerhouse south of her hometown. The precocious Californian also sank a pair of pressure-packed free throws with 17 seconds remaining to put the Huskies in front 70-65. She was good on 8 of 17 shots from the floor.

"We're not surprised because we put in the work and we knew sooner or later we'd get the reward," UW forward Dalayah Daniels said.

Stanford lost for the first time in six games, with its only other setbacks coming against No. 1-ranked South Carolina 76-71 in overtime in its season opener and 55-46 at USC.

The Cardinal led 17-8 after the first quarter and moved in front by 11 points before the UW responded by taking a 44-34 lead in the third quarter. 

Daniels contributed 15 points and Haley Van Dyke  had 14 points and 10 rebounds for the Huskies. Haley Jones topped Stanford with 18 points. 

"I just think this is really an unselfish team," second-year UW coach Tina Langley said.

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DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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