Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer has the most wins in college basketball history, so she knows what it takes to reach the mountaintop. You have to play some wild, hold-on-to-your-butts games to lay claim to a title like that, including Sunday night’s Stanford-Iowa State overtime thriller. Naturally, VanDerveer described it as “hotter than snot.”
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To be fair, Sunday’s game was so wild I wasn’t even sure I was breathing for half of it. It had SEVENTEEN lead changes, ELEVEN ties, a 41-point performance from Stanford’s Kiki Iriafen, a 36-point performance from Iowa State’s Emily Ryan and two stars — Cameron Brink and Audi Crooks — fouling out.
Postgame, Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer, as only she can do, described the game as legitimately “hotter than snot.”
Tara just said Iowa State was: hotter than snot.
Pretty sure that’s the first time I’ve heard that one. It’s now my new goal to work that into conversations. pic.twitter.com/g8ZTt9rObg— Kareem Copeland (@kareemcopeland) March 25, 2024
new Tara-ism; she called Iowa State's shooting "hotter than snot."
— marisa ingemi ✨ (@Marisa_Ingemi) March 25, 2024
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