SAN FRANCISCO — The first-ever event in San Francisco's brand-new Chase Center just two months ago involved a melodic combination of a famous hard-rocking metal band with the beautiful notes from a world-famous orchestra.
 
Saturday's history-making basketball game was much of the same, featuring the classical movements of a team with 12 consecutive Sweet 16 appearances taking on a young team playing hard-nosed and fearless.
 
The No. 3/3 Stanford women's basketball team defeated the University of San Francisco, 97-71, Saturday in the first-ever college basketball game played at Chase Center, with the two teams forever etching their names in the facility's lore.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• No. 3/3 Stanford (2-0) earned the dubious honor of the first collegiate points scored in the arena when Dijonai Carrington hit a 3-pointer 24 seconds in to start the scoring. But San Francisco (1-1) also grabbed its own slice of history when Lucie Hoskova hit the first collegiate two-point basket on a layup 19 seconds later, and Dolapo Balogun made the first collegiate free-throws to give the Dons an early 4-3 lead.
   
• San Francisco stayed close to the Cardinal during the game's first four minutes, but a 7-0 Stanford run on three consecutive baskets over 43 seconds gave it the lead for good at 14-8. Ioanna Krimili's first points of the game came on a 3-pointer that cut Stanford's lead back down to only three, but six more consecutive points to close the first period pushed that lead to nine.
   
• The Dons wouldn't go away for most of the second quarter, keeping their deficit at single digits against a team that just beat its opponent four days ago by 65 points. Krimili scored eight of the Dons' points in a row, keeping the Dons within striking distance. Hoskova hit another 3-pointer that cut the deficit back down to nine with less than two minutes to go before halftime, but that was the last time USF would be that close.
   
• Spanning the end of the second and start of the third quarters, Stanford went on a 10-0 run that put it up by 19. But the Dons, playing in the lavish setting of Chase Center in front of more than 3,000 fans, were determined to better their performance from a year ago when they played Stanford down in the South Bay. San Francisco would go on to score 71 points in the game, the most it has scored versus Stanford since 2001-02 when it scored 73, and bettering the 62 it scored last November against the Cardinal.

NOTABLE NUMBERS

• 4, AGAIN: San Francisco had four players score in double figures for the second time in as many games this week. Krimili led the way again with 17 points, Mikayla Williams had 14, Julia Nielacna poured in 10 off the bench and Hoskova also had 10.
• 15: San Francisco forced the Cardinal into 15 turnovers while only turning the ball over 12 times itself. Stanford's assists-to-turnovers ratio was still on the positive side thanks to 22 assists.
• FEWER: The Dons held Stanford to 10 fewer rebounds, five percent worse shooting, two fewer assists, and shot 21% better as a Stanford opponent than the Cardinal had achieved in its season opener Tuesday versus Eastern Washington.

COMING UP

• The Dons rest for seven days before hosting CSUN and Idaho on Saturday and Nov. 18, respectively. Fans can purchase tickets and find all live coverage links on USFDons.com.