GAMEDAY Womens Basketball
Stanford 72, Creighton 59
(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
By JANIE McCAULEY
AP Sports Writer
STANFORD, Calif. - Haley Jones had 16 points and eight assists, freshman Talana Lepolo scored a season-best 17 and No. 2 Stanford beat 21st-ranked Creighton 72-59 for its seventh straight victory.
Cameron Brink added 14 points and 16 rebounds in the final non-conference game for the Cardinal (12-1) ahead of their Pac-12 opener Friday at Maples Pavilion against rival California.
Stanford's lone defeat was a 76-71 overtime loss Nov. 20 to No. 1 South Carolina, the defending NCAA champion.
Lauren Jensen scored 18 points to lead cold-shooting Creighton (8-3), held to 36% from the field in the first meeting between the programs.
Emma Ronsiek added 11 points for the Bluejays, who have dropped three of four. They were coming off an 83-75 loss to No. 17 Arkansas in which Creighton went just 8 of 35 on 3-pointers and then fell five places in this week's AP Top 25.
Stanford made five of its first seven shots to jump ahead in a hurry 13-5, with Lepolo making her initial three 3s. But the Cardinal hit a field goal drought of nearly six minutes, missing seven straight shots during a 2-for-12 stretch in the fourth quarter as Creighton threatened.
Bluejays leading scorer Morgan Maly - who along with three others at 6-foot-1 are the team's tallest players - was held to nine points on 3-for-14 shooting, 3 of 10 from deep.
Creighton went without a field goal for 3:20 in the second quarter after a 3-pointer at the 9:49 mark by Maly, who was averaging 17.7 points per game.
BIG PICTURE
Creighton: This has been quite a non-conference stretch of big tests for the Bluejays, who face three straight ranked opponents - with UConn up next - and four in six games overall. ... Creighton, which used a late 8-0 run to make things interesting, shot 20 for 56 overall and 9 of 31 on 3s (29%). ... The Bluejays outrebounded Arkansas 46-36 but were pounded on the boards in this game, 15-2 in the first quarter, 26-8 by halftime and 50-25 overall. ... Creighton limited its turnovers to six, four through three quarters.
Stanford: Hannah Jump went 0 of 5 from long range for the most 3-point misses in her career and her first game without making one since an NCAA Tournament Elite Eight game vs. Texas last March. ... Stanford took charge with a 27-point first quarter. ... The Cardinal went 0 for 5 from deep in the second quarter. ... Brink, who matched her career high with six blocks in Sunday's 77-70 win against Tennessee, swatted two more to give her 41 through the first 13 games. ... Stanford got better all-around production a game after the players other than Brink, Jones and Jump shot just 6 for 24.
December 20, 2022
| Creighton | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| E. Ronsiek | F | 33 | 4-11 | 1-2 | 2-6 | 1-5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| L. Jensen | G | 34 | 6-14 | 4-4 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 18 |
| M. Mogensen | G | 29 | 2-7 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| M. Maly | G | 27 | 3-14 | 0-0 | 3-10 | 2-6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| R. Saunders | G | 23 | 2-4 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| C. Bachelor | 14 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| M. Brake | 12 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| K. Townsend | 10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| J. Horan | 8 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | |
| K. Lockett | 8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 198 | 20-56 (.357) |
10-15 (.667) |
9-31 (.290) |
4-25 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 59 | |
| Stanford | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| C. Brink | F | 29 | 6-9 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 2-16 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 14 |
| K. Iriafen | F | 23 | 4-8 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 5-9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| H. Jones | G | 37 | 7-14 | 1-2 | 1-3 | 0-4 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 16 |
| T. Lepolo | G | 32 | 6-13 | 0-0 | 5-11 | 1-3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| H. Jump | G | 26 | 2-8 | 0-0 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| E. Bosgana | 14 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| B. Demetre | 8 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| F. Belibi | 7 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| A. Emma-Nnopu | 7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| I. Nivar | 6 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| L. Betts | 3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| J. Harriel | 3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| A. Prechtel | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 197 | 29-63 (.460) |
7-12 (.583) |
7-26 (.269) |
16-50 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 72 | |
Officials: Melissa Barlow, Robert Scofield, Kaili Kimura
Attendance: 2,988
