BOULDER, Colo. (AP)—With Stanford star Nnemkadi Ogwumike slowed by an
ankle injury, Joslyn Tinkle helped collect adult a slack.
Tinkle matched her career high with 20 points and a No. 4 Stanford women’s
basketball group routed Colorado 80-54 Saturday.
Toni Kokenis and Chiney Ogwumike combined 19 points any for Stanford (15-1,
6-0 Pac-12), that won a 12th in a quarrel given a usually detriment of a deteriorate to
Connecticut 68-58 on Nov. 21.
Just 4 mins into a game, though, Stanford got a shock when Nnemkadi
Ogwumike, who came in streamer a discussion in scoring during 24.0 points per game,
tripped in a hasten underneath a basket and fell to a building in pain with a
right ankle injury. She returned mid by a initial half after removing her
ankle re-taped and finished with 15 points.
“She tweaked her ankle, though we are not a one actor team,” Stanford coach
Tara VanDerveer said. “I suspicion Joslyn Tinkle stepped adult large for us, Chiney,
she’s a warrior. She plays tough any singular game. we consider this is a breakout
game for Joslyn. I’m genuine vehement for her to play in this environment.”
Tinkle pronounced she was dynamic to assistance fill a blank in Nnemkadi Ogwumike’s
absence.
“Especially that,” she said. “I suspicion currently we unequivocally stepped adult and
did a unequivocally good job.”
Brittany Wilson and Jen Reese both scored 10 points for Colorado (13-3,
2-3), that was 11-0 before commencement joining play.
Stanford close down Colorado’s streamer scorer, Chucky Jeffery, who was held
to dual points on 1 of 10 sharpened from a floor. Jeffery, who averaged 17.2
points per diversion streamer into a contest, unsuccessful to measure in double sum for
the initial time this season.
“When another group has good players like Stanford does, they pivotal on her,”
Colorado manager Linda Lappe said. “She had some decent looks in a initial half
but she was a small tentative. She’s entitled to a bad diversion like anybody else.
Hopefully, she gets her certainty and strut back.”
VanDerveer pronounced containing Jeffery was a focal indicate for Stanford.
“We worked tough opposite her,” VanDerveer said. “We had 4 or five
people guarding her, and they’re not a one dimensional group either. we consider we
had a inside strength as well. We were means to go inside to Nnemkadi, go
inside to Joslyn. We missed on a lot of shots early though afterwards we finished on them
later.”
Stanford led 32-15 during halftime, tying a Buffaloes to their lowest
first-half indicate sum in a home game. Colorado shot 21 percent from a field
(6-29) and committed 10 of a 15 turnovers in a opening 20 minutes. Overall,
Stanford outshot a Buffaloes 50 percent to 32.8 percent.
Colorado didn’t measure until 6:59 into a diversion when Jasmine Sborov done two
free throws and didn’t get a margin idea until Sborov connected on a brief jumper
as a Buffaloes missed their initial 14 shots, descending behind 11-4.
After Lexy Kresl strike a 3-pointer to lift a Buffaloes to 13-9, Stanford
pulled divided again with a 19-6 run over a final 10:45 of a half.
Tinkle and Kokenis any strike 3s in a run, and Nnemkadi Ogwumike strike two
jumpers and dual giveaway throws as she regained her balance from a progressing ankle
injury.
Colorado’s Meagan Malcom-Peck non-stop a second half by creation a 3, but
Stanford answered with a 9-0 run that Kokenis keyed with a 3 of her own. The
Buffaloes trailed by during slightest 20 a rest of a way.
