1.   And the Cardinal women are suddenly conducting late-night, self-help seminars?

2.   Saturday night, the Cardinal women meet Alabama in the West Regional semifinals in Seattle.

3.   That means the Cardinal women will host an NCAA Tournament subregional at Maples Pavilion.

4.   The Cardinal women could reach the Final Four for the sixth time in eight years.

5.   The Cardinal women will not board an airplane for the next two weeks, because they can reach the Final Four without leaving the Bay Area.

6.   The Cardinal women hope they are merely swift enough to race past another SEC team.

7.   The Cardinal women, as they pointed out more than once during a press conference Sundah, can make it to the Final Four from a second seed.