Today, Duke and Stanford are kind enough to start their West Coast game nice and early to make ESPN (and fans on the East Coast) happy. Game time 7:30PM, EST.

Michelle Smith of the San Francisco Chronicle checks in:

The first time Stanford and Duke met was in 1988 at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C., where, as Cardinal coach Tara VanDerveer put it, "they had, like, 15 people at the game," which was won by Stanford. It happened again in an early-season tournament in San Jose in 1998, the Blue Devils winning that game. That's it.

Tonight at Cameron Indoor Stadium, in front of a national television audience, the two schools will prove that times, stature and attendance figures have changed.

Stanford is the No. 3 team in the country and Duke is No. 8. Let the smarty-pants competition begin.