TAMPA, Fla. — It was early Monday afternoon in her native Spain when Maite Cazorla connected by phone with family back home. The UO senior point guard was laying in bed, unable to sleep in what were the first few hours after midnight back in Eugene.
How could Cazorla rest? On Sunday in Portland, she and the UO women's basketball team had beaten Mississippi State in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. A program that three years before spoke in whispered tones about the idea of making a Final Four had achieved that goal in her senior season.