Jayne Appel Scores 46 As Stanford Advances
March 31, 2009 by Lyndsey D'Arcangelo
Filed under Basketball
Stanford is going back to the Women’s Final Four … and this time, they mean business.
Without former Player of the Year Candice Wiggins, Stanford needed one of its players to step up big time. Jayne Appel did more than “step up.” She dropped 46 points on Iowa St., to propel her team to St. Louis for another go at an NCAA Championship.
Jayne Appel dominated Iowa St. in the post on Monday night, scoring 46 points.
There was no stopping the 6-foot-4 junior, who is 20 pounds lighter than she was last season. Almost every time the ball came to Appel down in the post, she made a basket. I can honestly say that she put on a post-player clinic that coaches around the country should study.
With her 46 points, Appel broke Wiggins’s NCAA Tournament single-game scoring record of 44 points. With a little over a minute left to play, Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer replaced the starters to finish out the game.
Had she kept playing, Appel might have broken the all time NCAA Tournament single-game scoring record.
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