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Improved Arizona and Stanford ready to rematch in national championship game

SAN ANTONIO — It’s fitting that Stanford is all that stands in Arizona’s way of a national championship.

The Wildcats have built their NCAA Tournament run around the motto that no one believes in them. Now they can exact their pent-up fury on the No. 1-seeded Cardinal, who swept them in the regular season and are heavily favored to win again Sunday evening.

“This is a tremendous opportunity for us, but it’s just another game,” Arizona coach Adia Barnes said. “It means a little more, but at this point we’ve gotten this far and we believe, so you’ve just got to go out and play.