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Stanford's return to the Final Four a long time coming

By Mechelle Voepel
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Asked about the previous time her Stanford program met Connecticut in the Final Four -- a 27-point Cardinal loss -- coach Tara VanDerveer said, "When I think about 1995, I get amnesia." That is an especially funny line when you consider that 13 years ago, VanDerveer might not have said it. She wasn't as likely to let her sense of humor show. I used to say that VanDerveer in interviews sometimes sounded like the teacher in the "Charlie Brown" cartoons: "Mwa-mwa-MWA-mwa." But she doesn't a ...

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