Azzi named to ESPN top 25

Salt Lake City resident and former Utah Starzz point guard Jennifer Azzi has been named by ESPN.com to its top-25 list of all-time female college basketball players of the past 25 years.

Kate Starbird, a former Stanford and Starzz player like Azzi, was named in the "others also considered" list.

On its Web site, ESPN.com says, "The long line of Stanford superstars begins with Azzi. She was Stanford's first Pac-10 player of the year, first Kodak All-American and first national player of the year, winning both the Naismith and Wade Trophy honors as a senior. And long before Nicole Powell put the triple-double in vogue for the Cardinal, Azzi did it — with 14 points, 10 rebounds and 16 assists (which still stands as the single-game assists record) — as a freshman in 1987."

As a senior, the 5-foot-8 guard who played at Stanford from 1986 to1990, Azzi was even better as the West Region and Final Four most outstanding player and led the Cardinal to a record 32 wins in a season plus its first NCAA championship. She totaled 1,634 career points, 13.4 per game, and had 191 3-pointers, 751 assists and 271 steals. Her 96 steals in 1987-88 is still the Stanford record.