Whicker: UC Irvine women’s hoops gets its wakeup call

IRVINE — Tamara Inoue sat in a courtyard outside Crawford Hall. She’s a coach, the women’s basketball coach at UC Irvine, so she deals with immediacy.
Are you really as good as your last practice, your last meeting, your last game? They talk about the “body of work” that’s a college hoop season, but when you drop a hammer on your pinkie the rest of the body screams.
At the time, UC Irvine had suffered a blowout at UC Santa Barbara, then lost at home to Lo