College Cup championship
Who: No. 1 Stanford (24-0-1) vs. No. 3 Duke (22-3-1)
Time: 1 p.m.
Where: KSU Soccer Stadium
TV: ESPNU
Noteworthy: With star-quality players at each position and a deep bench, Stanford appears the favorite in Sunday's College Cup final. The Cardinal have made the national semifinals the past three years and have lost the past two finals by 1-0 scores. Stanford may attempt to short-circuit Duke by attacking quickly, using the likes of midfielder Teresa Noyola and forwards Lindsay Taylor and Chioma Ubogagu, as the Blue Devils have had a propensity for starting slowly. Ubogagu, a freshman, scored a goal and added an assist in the Cardinal's 3-0 win over Florida State in the semifinal Friday. Taylor has 20 goals and is the Pac-12 player of the year. Duke's strategy likely will revolve around playing its possession-oriented game, working the flanks and trying to locate some sort of vulnerability in a Stanford defense that has permitted one goal in the past seven games. Duke's balanced forward line of Kelly Cobb, Mollie Pathman and Laura Weinberg and midfielder Kaitlyn Kerr have scored nine goals in the Blue Devils' five tournament games.
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