Kelsey Murray, Allie DaCar lead Stanford women into NCAA lacrosse tournament

A West Coast team has not won the NCAA women’s lacrosse championship or even reached the Final Four.

Kelsey Murray still likes No. 11 Stanford’s chances.

“They’re as good as they’ve ever been,” she said. “If our defense plays the way they did in that Colorado game (a 15-6 victory in the Pac-12 tournament title game), I think we can shut down any team in the country.”

Murray, a graduate student who had a medical redshirt in 2014 when she missed most of the season with a knee injury, is Stanford’s all-time leader in goals (192) and assists (122). With 50 goals and 39 assists this year, she set a school record with 89 points, breaking the mark of 87 she set last year.