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🗓️ 5 April 2021
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The Stanford Cardinal and head coach Tara VanDerveer captured their first women's basketball national championship in twenty-nine years on Sunday, narrowly beating out Arizona. The Athletic's Chantel Jennings joins us to break down both teams's remarkable journey just to get to the title game, why Stanford managed to persevere, and how Arizona’s 5-foot-6 superstar Aari McDonald came up just short on her last-second shot. Plus, what comes next for the NCAA after the embarrassing scandal that plagued the women's tournament.
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0:46.0 | The Stanford Cardinal and Head Coach Tara Vandervere captured their first national championship |
1:07.0 | in nearly three decades on Sunday. Today the athletics chantal Jennings on one of the more memorable games |
1:13.0 | and March Madness tournaments in recent memory and how Arizona's 5'6' superstar, Aerie McDonald, |
1:19.0 | came up just short. |
1:21.0 | That she could take a shot from five feet beyond the three-point line with three players guarding her |
1:26.0 | on the best team in the country and I thought for those seconds that it was in the air, |
1:30.0 | my god, she just won this thing for them. That's how good she is on this postseason. |
1:35.0 | Plus, what comes next for the NCAA after the embarrassing scandal that plagued the tournament? |
1:40.0 | It's very very obvious that something is wrong and that the women should have been remedied a long time ago. |
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1:54.0 | So Chantal, this was a serious nail-biter of a game at the end of a pretty dramatic tournament on and off the court. |
2:00.0 | First of all, are you fully decompressed? |
2:03.0 | That's a good question. The fact that I don't know how I'm doing right now probably gives you insight into my brain |
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