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Meghan L. Hall

Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer used a gross nose metaphor to describe March Madness thriller with Iowa State (but it works!)

Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer has the most wins in college basketball history, so she knows what it takes to reach the mountaintop. You have to play some wild, hold-on-to-your-butts games to lay claim to a title like that, including Sunday night’s Stanford-Iowa State overtime thriller. Naturally, VanDerveer described it as “hotter than snot.”

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To be fair, Sunday’s game was so wild I wasn’t even sure I was breathing for half of it. It had SEVENTEEN lead changes, ELEVEN ties, a 41-point performance from Stanford’s Kiki Iriafen, a 36-point performance from Iowa State’s Emily Ryan and two stars — Cameron Brink and Audi Crooks — fouling out.

Postgame, Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer, as only she can do, described the game as legitimately “hotter than snot.”

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