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Stanford’s Chisom Okpara to miss rest of season with injury

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Stanford’s second-leading scorer Chisom Okpara will miss the remainder of the season with a lower extremity injury.

The team announced on Wednesday that Okpara will not be able to return this season after getting hurt in a loss to Virginia on Jan. 10.

Okpara was second on the team in scoring at 13.9 points per game to go along with 3.9 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.1 steals per game. Okpara played his second year with the Cardinal after spending his first two seasons in college at Harvard.

Stanford is 14-5 on the season with a 3-3 record in the Atlantic Coast Conference, including wins over Louisville and North Carolina when those schools were ranked in the AP poll.

The Cardinal host rival California in their next game on Saturday.

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Hawkeyes are set to play Vanderbilt in a November women’s basketball game in Sioux City, Iowa

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Vanderbilt and Iowa, both ranked in the top 10 late last season, will meet in a women's basketball game early next season in northwest Iowa, the schools announced Tuesday. The neutral-site game is set for Nov. 15 at the Tyson Events Center, which is 290 miles from Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City. Vanderbilt is 4-0 all-time against the Hawkeyes. This will be the teams' first meeting since 1997. The Commodores are expected to return national scoring leader Mikayla Blakes. She averaged 27 points per game and was Southeastern Conference player of the year. Vanderbilt was ranked as high as No. 5 and finished No. 10 with a 29-5 record after reaching the NCAA Sweet 16.
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