Kristine Anigwe is unstoppable force for Cal women’s basketball
Kristine Anigwe is unstoppable force for Cal women’s basketball
Opponents have tried double-teams, triple-teams, box-and-one schemes.
Her 13 double-doubles are No. 3 in the country this season.
[...] the 27 double-doubles she has posted in her career are the most by any underclassman.
Maybe no one has more appreciation for Anigwe’s skills than the three Cal players who try to stop the unstoppable every day in practice.
Anigwe is a special blend of size, speed and patience.
(Cal plays Arizona State on Friday night, then Arizona on Sunday.) They’ll also see plenty of Anigwe’s masterful step-through move.
Opponents know it’s her best move, but she has perfected the timing of it and speed changes while doing it, so they’re still pretty helpless against it.
Anigwe also is working on a spin move and has shown the ability to score on rip-through moves, off the dribble and with a mid-range jumper this season.
During some drills in practice, Anigwe also can be defended by 6-4 freshman C.J. West, 6-7 Chen Yue and a male practice player.
Having taken just 47 games, she reached the milestone quicker than any player in conference history and quicker than all but 19 players in the history of women’s college basketball.
Anigwe pushes her fellow frontcourt players in practice, and they push right back.
Waters and Anigwe have a running joke about feeding each other elbows during practice.
Rusty Simmons is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.