Pitt's hometown paper examines the home team's coming bout with Stanford. Coach TV says her Cardinal has the mental strength recent versions have lacked: "What I like about this team," she says, "is what I liked about the national championship teams" she coached in the early 1990s.

Stanford come in on a twenty-game win streak-- and they beat Rutgers way back in November. After two months on Pacific time, though, are they ready for the physicality of a pretty good Big East team?

Stanford's Jayne Appel: "I think it will actually be easier playing in Washington [State] than at home... We are flying under the radar right now. I don't feel any outside pressure. Maybe it does have to do with us being a two seed instead of a one."