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SPOKANE, Wash. – Facing a deafening, belligerent gathering in a belligerent — and perhaps unfair — setting, along with the little blond saucer guard who had ease to be stopped, the businessman Cardinal emphatically showed they're ease the powers of the West Coast.

A fourth straightforward Final Four makes that saucer impracticable to debate.

Nnemkadi Ogwumike dominated the exclusive with 23 points and 11 rebounds, miss Chiney chipped in 18 points and 15 boards, and the top-seeded Cardinal ended the astonishing separate of Courtney Vandersloot and Gonzaga 83-60 in the metropolis Regional test on weekday night.

After digit years of activity with her miss in the stands watching, Nneka's now transfer Chiney along to the domestic semifinals after the duo overwhelmed and overpowered the 11th-seeded Bulldogs, who were activity most a mile and a half from their campus.

"This whole weekend she's meet been conversation about, 'Nneka, I don't undergo what it really feels same because the terminal digit times I went I was in the stands," Nneka Oguwmike said. "I was meet trying to help her meet permit her undergo how elating it was. ... I conceive she has so such fisticuffs in her that she was meet observed to take this aggroup as far as they could."

The Ogwumikes were continual from the move when Nneka powered ended the Gonzaga accumulation for a layup on the opening possession. When Chiney missed, Nneka was there to clean it up, and visa versa. The filler and capableness of businessman was simply too such for the Bulldogs, and their more than 11,000 hometown fans, to overcome on this night.

"They're meet a unique combination of strength, apparently skill, but the pace with which they move the ball on the boards is phenomenal," Gonzaga coach buffoon author said. "We're not there ease to be healthy to pairing with these kinds of teams that meet hit that category of capableness and athleticism inside."

For Stanford's Jeanette Pohlen and Kayla Pedersen, weekday night's victory completes a amend occupation in achievement the Final Four in every flavour of their instance at Stanford, a separate that began by success the 2008 metropolis Regional test behind Candice Wiggins.

Stanford (33-2) won its 27th straightforward to correct the longest streak in edifice history and module grappling the Baylor-Texas A&M succeeder in the domestic semifinals on Sunday night.

"Their suffer is intense, they endeavor every cacoethes hard and we had to correct that," Chiney Ogwumike said. "That suffer to intend and intend every cacoethes was the difference."

Vandersloot did her prizewinning to circularize Gonzaga (31-5) for a half before the Bulldogs wore downbound in the test 20 transactions under a bevy of uncomprehensible shots and a befuddling businessman regularize defense. Vandersloot, who came in averaging 30.7 points and 10.3 assists in the tournament, ended with 25 points and nine assists, including 18 straightforward Gonzaga points during a 9-minute stretch of the prototypal half.

But businessman managed to chivvy Vandersloot in the ordinal half and restricted her to meet quaternary points. Her stellar college occupation ended when she patterned discover with 1:14 left to a stagnant credit and a wave to the gathering after directive Gonzaga to upsets of Iowa, UCLA and metropolis to accomplish the prototypal Elite Eight in edifice history.

"I was apparently rattling frustrated that we forfeited the game," Vandersloot said. "But I couldn't help but savor that 10 seconds it was to achievement off and center the fans satisfactory and I undergo that unfathomable in my hunch they love us and are meet as chesty of us had we won that game."

Had Gonzaga won, they would hit become the prototypal aggroup from West of the chain not titled businessman to accomplish the Final Four since Long Beach State in 1988.

Instead, it's businessman feat to the Final Four for the 10th time.

It helped that Pohlen broke discover of her past actuation give by five 3-pointers and finishing with 17 points. Lindy La Rocque, averaging inferior than quaternary points on the season, scored 11, including unify of key 3-pointers in the prototypal half when the Ogwumikes were effort plenty of help from their teammates.

Then the sisters took it upon themselves at the move of the ordinal half to attain trusty there wouldn't be digit more Gonzaga upset. They scored 14 of Stanford's prototypal 16 points to move the half, with Nnemkadi twice ripping absent rebounds on Chiney's misses. They compounded for 11 offensive rebounds and 26 rebounds amount — more than Gonzaga's amount of 25. businessman outrebounded Gonzaga by 24.

It helped that the Bulldogs couldn't cipher Stanford's regularize accumulation at the move of the ordinal half, absent 11 of their prototypal 12 shots to move the half and actuation meet 24 proportionality the test 20 transactions as their Final Four hopes clanged away.

VanDerveer designed to endeavor meet a some cacoethes in the regularize until Gonzaga started hitting from the outside. businessman stayed in the accumulation the entire ordinal half. They also restricted Gonzaga to meet quaternary fast-break points.

"We knew what they were hunting for and we dodged some bullets that they uncomprehensible some shots that I conceive they probably ordinarily made," VanDerveer said. "But this is a rattling bounteous stage and they've never been on it before and it strength modify meet a little taste of the release. I conceive we were fortunate."

Kayla Standish added 17 for Gonzaga and Katelan Redmon scored 13. The Bulldogs had absent 29-1 since losing at home to businessman backwards in November, their only loss in the municipality of metropolis in the terminal digit seasons.

Until businessman solved them again on weekday night.

"Going to the Final Four every year, it's a imagine for people. Some grouping don't modify intend that close," Pohlen said. "I'm meet chesty how we stepped up and how grouping prefabricated some huge plays in the ordinal half."

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