After earning an all-expense-paid trip to Minneapolis this week by virtue of its win over Texas Sunday night, Stanford now finds itself on the cusp of Bay Area college basketball immortality.
The Cardinal head to the Final Four knowing they’re just two wins away from a second straight national championship.
If Tara VanDerveer’s squad can survive a battle against Connecticut and then either top-ranked South Carolina or Louisville, it would join the mid-century University of San Francisco men as the Bay Area’s only back-to-back NCAA Division I basketball champs.
