STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford junior guard Lili Thompson was named Pac-12 Player of the Week for games played from November 23 to 29 the conference announced Monday.
The honor is Thompson’s second, the first of the season for the Cardinal and Stanford’s 102nd all-time player of the week selection. The 2015 John R. Wooden Award candidate won her first Pac-12 Player of the Week award on Nov. 24, 2014.
Thompson was named the 2015 Gulf Coast Showcase Most Valuable Player after leading Stanford to the tournament title with averages of 21.0 points and 6.0 assists per game at the event in Florida. She led off with 26 points on 10-of-21 shooting in the opener against Missouri State on Nov. 27, an 82-65 Stanford win, then scored 19 and handed out a season-high seven assists in a 74-66 victory over Dayton a day later. In the championship on Sunday night, Thompson scored 19 and went 9-of-9 at the line to lift the Cardinal to a 71-65 overtime win against Purdue. She began the week with a 21-point outing in Stanford’s 61-58 setback against Santa Clara on Nov. 23.
In four games, Thompson averaged 20.8 points, 6.0 assists and 1.8 steals per game, shot 42.2 percent from the floor (27-for-64) and was even better from long distance, knocking down 44.1 percent of her 3-point attempts (15-for-34). She missed just one free throw all week, going 14-for-15 from the line (.933).
And your 2015 Gulf Coast Showcase MVP » @_li_squared. Averaged 21 ppg and 6 apg. #GoStanford
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Thompson has scored 20 or more in four of Stanford’s seven games this season. She’s had nine career 20-point efforts, with eight coming in the month of November. Her 26-point outing against Missouri State was her fourth consecutive, making the junior captain the first Cardinal guard to score 20 in four straight games since Candice Wiggins in 2008.
She is fifth in the conference in scoring this season, averaging 19.3 points per game, fifth in assists (5.0/game), fourth in free throw percentage (.909) and first in 3-point field goals made per game (3.3). With 901 career points, Thompson is close to becoming Stanford’s 36th 1,000-point scorer.
No. 16 Stanford (6-1) is off the next two weeks for final exams. The Cardinal resumes action when it travels to No. 6 Texas (5-0) on Sunday, Dec. 13 (noon CT) for a game televised on ESPN.