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No. 9/13 Stanford (12-3, 2-1) goes for its ninth consecutive win over the Buffaloes when it hosts Colorado (5-9, 0-3) in Maples Pavilion on Sunday, Jan. 10 at noon. Krista Blunk and Mary Murphy have the call on Pac-12 Networks.

Against Colorado

Stanford is 13-4 all-time against Colorado dating back to Dec. 1988 and has won all eight meetings since the Buffaloes became a member of the Pac-12.

CU’s last victory in the series was in the NCAA Tournament on March 23, 2002, a 62-59 win in the West Regional semifinal in Boise, Idaho.

Last season, the Cardinal opened up its Pac-12 schedule with a win over Colorado. Amber Orrange scored 16 of her career-high 26 points in the second half and Lili Thompson added 17 of her own to push Stanford to the 62-55 victory.

Catching You Up

Following a game in which nothing went right offensively, four players scored in double figures as No. 9 Stanford cruised to a 72-52 home victory over the Utah on Friday night. Lili Thompson and Brittany McPhee contributed 16 points apiece, with Karlie Samuelson adding 13 on 3-of-5 shooting from beyond the arc, and Erica McCall chipping in 11.

Emily Potter’s layup tied the game at 30 on the first possession of the third quarter, but Stanford went on an 8-0 run to put the Utes in a hole for good. Thompson keyed the spurt with four points, and also assisted on Erica McCall’s first basket of the game. McPhee’s runner put the Cardinal up 38-30, and Utah never pulled closer than six thereafter.

Stanford’s defense was strong yet again. The Cardinal held Utah 20 points below its season scoring average and held Potter to her worst shooting performance of the season. The 6-foot-6 post, who came in averaging 17.3 points and 12.3 rebounds, was held to just nine points, including two in the second half, and four rebounds. Potter, a 57.8 percent shooter, made just 4-of-12 from the floor and was 1-of-7 in the second half.

Utah was also out-rebounded for the first time this season, 36-30. The Utes were 15th in the NCAA, averaging 44.4 rebounds per game, and had a +11.5 margin, which was second in the Pac-12.

McPhee scored in double figures for the second time in Pac-12 play. The sophomore sub is Stanford’s leading scorer in conference games, averaging 13.7 points.

Sound basketball. Roberson finds McPhee cutting baseline. Britt has a game-high 16. #GoStanford https://t.co/LBjiOWgph4

— Stanford WBB (@StanfordWBB) January 9, 2016

Stanford’s offensive execution was a welcome change from Monday’s loss at No. 14 Arizona State, a game in which the Cardinal was held to just 31 points, the fewest in program history.

Against the Utes, Stanford handed out 17 assists on its 25 made baskets, including a career-high eight from Briana Roberson. The Cardinal shot 44.6 percent from the floor and has won 10 straight at home when converting more than 40 percent of its attempts.

Defensive Updates

The Cardinal has held 14 of 15 opponents below 40 percent shooting, six below 30 percent and one below 20 percent. Stanford leads the nation in field goal percentage defense (.304).

Each of Stanford’s 14 opponents (not counting the season opener at UC Davis) have been held below their season shooting average. Those foes have also put up 15.4 points less than their scoring average when facing Stanford.

The Cardinal has forced seven straight opponents to shoot less than 37 percent. In those last seven games, Stanford is allowing just 42.7 points on 25.9 percent shooting (106-of-410).

Utah’s 52 points on Friday snapped Stanford’s five-game streak of holding opponents below 50, which tied a school record. In the 2012-13 season, the Cardinal each of Long Beach State (41), UC Davis (38), Gonzaga (41), Pacific (43) and South Carolina (49) under that point threshold. The program has never done it in six straight.

This And That

With 999 career points, Lili Thompson is one shy of becoming the 36th Stanford player to reach 1,000 in a career.

Erica McCall posted her ninth double-double of the season on Friday with 11 points and 11 rebounds. She's jumped back up to fifth in the nation in that category. Only Jillian Alleyne at Oregon (13), Jonquel Jones at George Washington (12), Lexi Martins at Lehigh (11) and Seanna Johnson at Iowa State (10) have more.

2:41 Q4 | Another one for @_mediumE. Ninth this season. 10 points, 11 rebounds. #GoStanford pic.twitter.com/SiqEvRYFCy

— Stanford WBB (@StanfordWBB) January 9, 2016

Brittany McPhee has had two of her six career games in double figures scoring in the past week. The sophomore, who averages 16.7 minutes per game, scored 21 in the Pac-12 opener at Arizona and 16 on Friday night against Utah. She leads the Cardinal in scoring in league games with 13.7 points on 57.9 percent shooting, including a 45.5 percent clip from deep.

In 12 nonconference games, McPhee averaged 5.3 points, shot 32.2 percent from the floor and 25.9 percent from behind the arc.

Notes entering the weekend »

Against Utah

Stanford is 18-0 all-time against Utah dating back to the first meeting on Jan. 13, 1986. This will be the seventh games between the two schools as conference foes. Stanford has won those previous six matchups by an average of 20.0 points.

In the only meeting last season, Amber Orrange scored 13 of her game-high 17 in the second half and grabbed seven rebounds, Lili Thompson scored 14 to go along with five rebounds and three assists and No. 15 Stanford won in Maples Pavilion, 55-44 to start its Pac-12 schedule 2-0.

Catching You Up

Stanford split its opening Pac-12 weekend in Arizona, beating the Wildcats on Saturday, 59-34, before losing to No. 14 Arizona State on Monday, 49-31.

It’s the first time since 2005-06 that the Cardinal has lost one of its first two conference games. That season, Stanford won at Washington State (75-56) on Dec. 20 and then dropped a decision at Washington (77-72) two days later.

Stanford’s defense was strong, limiting Arizona and Arizona State to 41.5 combined points on 25.9 percent shooting, but the Sun Devils did the Cardinal one better on Monday night.

The Cardinal’s 31 points were the fewest in program history, one shy of the 32 it scored against No. 16 Missouri at the Dial Classic in Miami on Jan. 2, 1984.

At Arizona on Saturday, Stanford held that program to lows for a Pac-12 game in both points and field goal percentage (.208). The 34 points allowed also tied a Stanford record for fewest allowed in a Pac-12 game, matching the same total from a 60-34 win against Washington State on Feb. 8, 2007.

Sun Devil Struggles

Arizona State has won three of last four against Stanford, including each regular-season meeting the past two years. The Sun Devils are the first Pac-12 team to beat the Cardinal in three straight regular-season games since 1988.

Stanford’s 25.6 percent shooting at ASU was its lowest in a conference game since 1988-89. Game-by-game records from the first two years of Pac-12 women’s basketball (1986-87 and 1987-88) are not available.

Arizona State is responsible for three of the Cardinal’s 11 games shooting less than 30 percent since 1988-89, also accomplishing it in 2003-04 and 2011-12. Tennessee (2014-15), Chattanooga (2014-15), Connecticut (2009-10 and 2012-13), UCLA (2007-08), Cal (2006-07), Maine (1998-99) and Arizona (1992-93) are the others.

Stanford’s 18-point loss was its largest in conference action since a 73-53 defeat to the Sun Devils on Feb. 7, 2004.

Monday also marked the second time since 1988-89 that Stanford has had a game without a double-digit scorer, with the other coming last Dec. 17 at Chattanooga.

Setting The Stage

Stanford is looking to avoid its third two-game losing streak since the start of last year. The Cardinal has dropped back-to-back games just seven times since 2001-02.

Beginning with the formation of Pac-12 women’s basketball, Stanford has lost consecutive league games only 11 times, with four of those occurrences happening in that first season of 1986-87.

Stanford has not been below .500 in conference play since 2001 when it started 1-3.

Starting Lineup

In 2015-16, Stanford is without a senior starter for the first time in 13 seasons. The 2002-03 campaign was the last time the Cardinal didn’t have a senior in its first five. That 13-player roster featured two juniors and 11 underclassmen.

Schedule Strength

In the official NCAA RPI released on Jan. 6 Stanford sits at No. 3 and has played one of the nation’s toughest schedules. The NCAAs most recent in-depth RPI report from Jan. 3 has the Cardinal’s schedule as the fourth-toughest.

Through games as of Jan. 6, Stanford’s 14 opponents this year have the second-highest combined winning percentage in the country of .721 (129-50). Tennessee leads that category with opponents who have gone 115-40 (.742).

As of Jan. 3 and that most recent RPI report, the Cardinal was 7-2 against the RPI top 100. Only Connecticut (7) and Notre Dame (7) have as many RPI top 100 wins.

The average RPI of Stanford’s opponents is 81. Eleven other schools have played a schedule in which its opponents average RPI is in the top 100 - BYU (96), Chattanooga (90), Connecticut (82), Dayton (63), Green Bay (93), Notre Dame (91), Ohio State (94), Rutgers (94), St. Joseph’s (84), Tennessee (89) and Texas A&M (94).

Applying Pressure

The Cardinal has held 13 of 14 opponents below 40 percent shooting, six below 30 percent and one below 20 percent. Stanford leads the nation in field goal percentage defense (.300).

Each of Stanford’s 13 opponents (not counting the season opener at UC Davis) have been held below their season shooting average. Those foes have also put up 15.1 points less than their scoring average when facing Stanford.

The Cardinal has forced six straight opponents to shoot less than 32 percent. In those last six games, Stanford is allowing just 41.2 points on 24.3 percent shooting (87-of-358).

Stanford has also allowed less than 50 points in five straight games for only the second time in school history. In the 2012-13 season, the Cardinal each of Long Beach State (41), UC Davis (38), Gonzaga (41), Pacific (43) and South Carolina (49) under that point threshold. The program has never done it in six straight.

One game after holding Chattanooga to 30 points on Dec. 28, the sixth-fewest for an opponent in program history, the Cardinal only surrendered 34 on Jan. 2 at Arizona, a total now tied for 10th in its record books. Stanford had never before held back-to-back opponents to less than 35 points.

Stanford has held its opponent below 10 points 16 times in 56 quarters, or 28.6 percent of the time this season. It did so in eight straight quarters over games against CSU Bakersfield, Chattanooga and Arizona.

Stanford is also fifth in the country in blocked shots per game (6.4) and has tallied seven or more blocks in a game six times this season after doing it five times all of last year. The Cardinal is on pace for 198 rejections this season, which would surpass the school record of 196 set in 2001-02.

The Cardinal’s 12 blocks against CSU Bakersfield on Dec. 22 are tied for second in Cardinal single-game history with games against New Mexico (2013), UC Davis (2012) and Massachusetts (2000). The school record of 13 was set on Feb. 3, 1989 against Arizona State.

Its defensive prowess this season is a return to normal for the Cardinal. Last year’s 37.0 percent field goal percentage defense mark was 43rd and the lowest in some time. Stanford hadn’t surrendered a better percentage since 2005-06 (36th; .373) and hadn’t finished a season ranked lower in that category since 2002-03 (57th; .384).

From 2006-07 to 2013-14, the Cardinal did not finish outside the nation’s top 15 in field goal percentage defense, capping that stretch with a 35.7 percent mark to check in 14th in the country in 2013-14.

Stanford was the nation’s best with a school record field goal percentage defense in 2012-13 (.316). The Cardinal was seventh in 2011-12 (.339), fifth in 2010-11 (.336), third in 2009-10 (.339), 13th in 2008-09 (.352), 11th in 2007-08 (.355) and sixth in 2006-07 (.346).

Inside And Outside

Stanford scored 48 points in the paint in last season’s opener against Boston College and then went 43 straight games without putting up 40 from inside.

Since its loss to Texas on Dec. 13, the Cardinal has seemed to have found its flow on the block. Stanford has put up at least 40 points in the paint in three of its last six, going for 40 against Tennessee, 40 against CSU Bakersfield and 41 against Chattanooga.

In the seven seasons prior to last year, Stanford had averaged 10.5 games with at least 40 points in the paint.

Stanford is also 36th in the nation in percentage (.360) and 42nd in field goals made per game (7.5) from behind the arc.

Stanford has made 10 or more 3-pointers four times in its first 14 games, including in three straight against Santa Clara, Missouri State and Dayton. All of last season, the Cardinal did that seven times in 36 total games.

Tracking Thompson

Lili Thompson has scored 20 or more in five of Stanford’s 14 games this season. She’s had 10 career 20-point efforts, with eight coming in the month of November. The only non-November 20-point efforts came at USC on Jan. 25, 2015 (21) and on Dec. 13 at Texas (21).

Her 26-point outing against Missouri State on Nov. 27 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 also the first Stanford guard to start a season with 10 straight games in double figures scoring in a decade. Candice Wiggins scored 10 or more in all 34 games in 2005-06. That career-best streak was broken with nine points against CSU Bakersfield on Dec. 22.

In 21 career November games, Thompson is averaging 15.0 points. The junior scores 10.4 points per game in her 64 other career games in December, January, February, March and April.

At 15.5 points per game, the junior is 10th in the Pac-12 in scoring to go along with ninth in the league in assists (4.6). With 983 career points she is close to becoming the 36th Stanford player to reach 1,000 in a career.

On Nov. 17, Thompson was named to the John R. Wooden Award Women’s Preseason Top 30 and she was part of the Naismith Trophy Women’s Watch List released on Dec. 9.

Wooden Award Preseason Top 30 announced Tuesday features our very own @_li_squared! #GoStanford

A photo posted by Stanford Women's Basketball (@stanfordwbb) on Nov 17, 2015 at 4:28pm PST

She has also won a pair of Pac-12 Player of the Week awards this season (Nov. 24 and Dec. 21). Her most recent nod came after averaging 15.0 points, 4.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists in Stanford’s wins over then-No. 14 Tennessee and Cornell.

Flying High

Erica McCall, who entered 2015-16 with just two career double-doubles, has quadrupled that total 14 games into her junior season.

McCall has eight this season, including four straight to open the year. In the past decade, only Chiney Ogwumike has had a better start to a year for the Cardinal. Ogwumike also had four straight double-doubles to start the 2013-14 campaign. McCall’s eight double-doubles are tied for eighth in the NCAA.

Only five Stanford players have ever averaged a double-double for an entire season: Chiney Ogwumike (2012, 2013, 2014), Nnemkadi Ogwumike (2012), Nicole Powell (2004), Jeanne Ruark Hoff (1980) and Kathy Murphy (1978). McCall is currently averaging 13.1 points and 9.3 rebounds per outing.

Rounding Into Form

Kaylee Johnson has come on strong in Stanford’s last five games, averaging 7.7 points on 78.3 percent shooting (18-of-23) to go along with 6.3 rebounds.

The sophomore opened the year averaging 1.1 points and 4.5 rebounds while shooting just 22.2 percent from the floor in the Cardinal’s first eight games.

After scoring in double figures six times as a freshman, Johnson has now put up 10+ in three of the past six games against Tennessee, Cornell and CSU Bakersfield.

Alanna Smith has scored in double figures six times this season, including in three of Stanford’s last five games. She is the team’s second-leading scorer over that span, averaging 10.2 points on 52.9 percent shooting, including a 40.0 percent mark from deep, to go along with 3.6 rebounds.

In the first nine games of the year, Smith averaged 6.3 points and 2.6 rebounds.

Different Samuelson, Same Story

Stanford lost Bonnie Samuelson to graduation after a career in which she finished third in school history and 10th in Pac-12 history in 3-point makes (237), but younger sister Karlie Samuelson has stepped in to keep up the family’s sharpshooting legacy.

Karlie is 28-of-69 from behind the arc this season and is eighth in the conference in 3-point field goal percentage (.406). A career 38.3 percent 3-point shooter, Samuelson has made 101 from deep in her career and 14 away from setting a new personal best for a single season after draining 41 a year ago.

Seventy-nine percent (373-of-470) of her career points have come on 3-pointers (303) and free throws (71). The junior captain has made more than twice as many field goals from behind the arc as she has from inside, converting 48 2-point attempts. She is 10-of-16 (.625) on such shots this season.

Among The Best Ever

The Cardinal is 988-307 (.763) all-time since its first varsity season in 1975. Stanford would join an exclusive list with 12 more wins. Tennessee, Louisiana Tech, James Madison and Old Dominion are currently the only Division I institutions with 1,000 victories. Stanford is seventh on that list, also behind Stephen F. Austin and Texas.

Entering this season, the Cardinal was fourth in the NCAA over the last five years by both wins and percentage. From 2011-15, Stanford went 160-22 (.879). Connecticut was 182-12 (.938), Baylor was 173-14 (.925) and Notre Dame was 174-18 (.906).

More Milestones On The Horizon For Tara

Entering her 30th season on the bench at Stanford, Setsuko Ishiyama Director of Women’s Basketball Tara VanDerveer has accumulated a 964-220 (.814) record in her 36 years as a collegiate head coach and an 812-169 (.828) on The Farm.

In November 2013, she became just the fifth college women’s basketball coach to win 900 career games. This past March she won her 800th game at Stanford, becoming the 10th college basketball coach – men’s or women’s – with that many victories at a single Division I school, Pat Summitt (Tennessee), Mike Krzyzewski (Duke), Geno Auriemma (Connecticut), Dean Smith (North Carolina), Adolph Rupp (Kentucky), Andy Landers (Georgia), Jim Boeheim (Syracuse), Robin Selvig (Montana) and Jim Phelan (Mount St. Mary’s).

One of the greatest leaders in any sport at any level, VanDerveer enters the 2015-16 season as the third-winningest coach in NCAA women’s basketball history and is 36 victories away from joining Pat Summitt as the only coaches with 1,000 career wins.

VanDerveer is the 16th Division I women’s basketball coach in NCAA history to coach 30 or more seasons at the same institution and is one of five on the active coaching list. Pat Summitt (Tennessee; 1975-12), Harry Perretta (Villanova; 1979-15), Robin Selvig (Montana; 1979-15), Andy Landers (Georgia; 1980-15), Cindy Russo (FIU; 1978, 1981-15), Debbie Ryan (Virginia; 1978-11), Kay Yow (North Carolina St.; 1976-09), Wanda Watkins (Campbell; 1982-15), Kathleen Delaney-Smith (1983-15), Frank Bennett (Lipscomb; 1981-12), , Mike Granelli (Saint Peter’s; 1973-04), Jody Conradt (Texas; 1977-07), Marian Washington (Kansas; 1974-04), Lynne Agee (UNC Greensboro; 1982-11), Shirley Walker (Alcorn; 1979-08) are the others.

Off the court and on the gridiron, she served as Stanford football’s honorary captain for its Oct. 3 home win over Arizona, 55-17.

Does not count as career win No. 954. We checked. #GoStanford

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Prognostications

Stanford is No. 9 in the AP top 25 and No. 13 in the USA TODAY Coaches Poll.

Stanford has appeared in the AP rankings a possible 485 times out of 700 total polls since 1977 (69.3 percent), with an average positioning of 6.9. It’s been in the past 267 polls, the fourth-longest active streak behind Tennessee (543), Connecticut (421) and Duke (350). Stanford has also been in 283 consecutive coaches polls.

The Cardinal’s 485 all-time appearances in the AP top 25 are fourth behind Tennessee (686), Georgia (522) and Texas (491).

Stanford was picked to finish second in the Pac-12 when the conference released the results of the preseason coaches’ poll on Oct. 14. Those results snapped Stanford’s 15-year streak at the top of the league’s preseason rankings. Before that announcement, UCLA was the last team to finish atop the preseason poll, receiving the honor two straight years in 1998-99 and 1999-2000.

The Cardinal, last year’s Pac-12 Tournament champion, totaled 104 points. Oregon State, the league’s 2015 regular-season winner, was the leading vote-getter, garnering 11 first-place votes and 121 points.

So International

Stanford forward Erica McCall won her fourth gold medal representing the United States at the 2015 World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea in July.

A United States co-captain, McCall finished the event tied for eighth overall in scoring (15.2), was eighth in rebounds (8.5), tied for third in blocks (1.8) and led all players in South Korea in field goal percentage, converting 37 of her 62 attempts from the floor (.597). Team USA went a perfect 6-0 and defeated its opponents by an average of nearly 22 points per game.

Champ. 🏆🇺🇸 @birdstheword_24 @gostanford @usabasketball #GoStanford

A photo posted by Stanford Women's Basketball (@stanfordwbb) on Jul 13, 2015 at 12:20pm PDT

In July, freshman Alanna Smith led Australia to a third-place finish and was named to the All-Star Five at the FIBA U19 Women’s World Championship in Chekhov, Russia.

The first international recruit in Stanford women’s basketball history, Smith tied for 12th in the entire tournament in points per game (12.6), tied for 15th in rebounds (7.0), tied for third in blocks (2.7), tied for 23rd in steals (1.3) and led Australia in each of those categories.

.@alannas96 » @gostanford freshman and one of the best at the @fiba U19 Women's World Championship. #GoStanford #FIBAU19 @basketballaus

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Always Learning

Last year it was Mike D’Antoni, Joe Prunty, Jenny Boucek and others who helped Tara VanDerveer and her staff learn the intricacies of a more guard-oriented, fast-paced, pick-and-roll offense as Stanford moved away from the triangle for the first time since the 2002-03 season.

This year it has been a give-and-take with the NBA Champion Golden State Warriors. The Warriors practiced at Stanford on Oct. 5 before preseason game in San Jose and assistant coach Kate Paye attended another Golden State practice in the East Bay. When the Warriors were on the road in San Diego, VanDerveer’s sister and UCSD women’s coach, Heidi VanDerveer, attended a practice.

Solid start to the first day of practice. Warriors warmed up the court for the Cardinal. #GoStanford #Warriors pic.twitter.com/JyPwgPlEHo

— Stanford WBB (@StanfordWBB) October 5, 2015

Warriors assistant coach and former Stanford star Jarron Collins » “It goes back to, men’s team or women’s team, basketball’s basketball and we’re all trying to improve. There’s this synergy of just talking shop. We’ve had a level of success, obviously, and you just want to borrow from those that have achieved a certain level. Our practices are very open to coaches who want to come and watch and observe. It’s pretty cool for us getting to interact with Coach VanDerveer.”

VanDerveer, who also asks former Stanford guard and now-Warriors sideline reporter Rosalyn Gold-Onwude of her observations on what Golden State is doing, says “it’s kind of a little clinic happening every two or three nights on television.”

Fab Four

On Nov. 11, the Cardinal announced the signings of four prep standouts to National Letters of Intent in Mikaela Brewer (Barrie, Ontario/Innisdale Secondary School), DiJonai Carrington (San Diego, Calif./Horizon Christian Academy), Nadia Fingall (Navarre, Fla./Choctawhatchee) and Anna Wilson (Bellevue, Wash./Bellevue).

Collectively, the Cardinal’s class is rated No. 8 by espnW HoopGurlz and No. 6 by Prospects Nation.

Brewer, a skilled perimeter prospect, is a veteran of Canada Basketball and most recently represented her country at the 2014 FIBA U17 World Championship for Women in the Czech Republic.

A versatile perimeter performer, Carrington is a five-star talent rated as the 34th best player in the country according to espnW HoopGurlz and 16th by Prospects Nation. Her brother, Darren Jr., is a wide receiver at Oregon and her father Darren Sr., was an NFL defensive back with 22 career interceptions. Mother, Vickie, was a sprinter at Northern Arizona University where Darren Sr. played football.

2010 Stanford Women's Basketball Camp -----> 2015 Stanford Official Visit!!! Crazy realizing that picture was 5 years ago and tomorrow I will be signing my National Letter of Intent to play for this amazing Hall of Fame coach!!!!!! I cannot begin to explain how blessed I am! Tomorrow at the San Diego Hall of Champions all of the early signees will be singing their NLIs !!!! Come support us ! The event starts at 8am and will be covered on tv! #GOCARD #FearTheTree #TheFarm #NerdNation #dComebackWillBeReal #AllGloryToGod ✍🏽✍🏽✍🏽❤️❤️❤️🌲🌲🌲🤓🤓🤓🏀🏀🏀📚📚📚

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Fingall is a certifiable blue-chip prospect ranked 26th in the nation by espnW HoopGurlz and the seventh-best forward. The five-star post also checks in at No. 23 overall and No. 4 at her position according to Prospects Nation.

Wilson, a 5-foot-8 guard from Bellevue, Washington, will give Stanford another dynamic player in the backcourt and is rated as the 58th overall player in the class of 2016 by espnW Hoopgurlz and 34th by Prospects Nation. She is the younger sister of Seattle Seahawks’ quarterback Russell Wilson.

On Nov. 22, the Naismith Trophy announced that Carrington, Fingall and Wilson are among 50 players on the watch list for the Girls High School Player of the Year award.

Another Tournament Trip

Stanford made its 22nd overall trip to the Sweet Sixteen and eighth straight in 2014-15.

Since its first NCAA Tournament appearance in 1982, Stanford has won two national championships (1990, 1992), reached 12 Final Fours (1990-92, 1995-97, 2008-12, 2014), 17 Elite Eights, 22 Sweet 16s and compiled an NCAA Tournament record of 77-27 (.740).

Overall, last year marked the Cardinal’s 29th NCAA Tournament appearance and 28th straight.

Stanford’s 12 Final Four appearances are the third-most by any school and its 29 overall tournament appearances rank third behind only Tennessee (34) and Georgia (31).

Tennessee is the only school that has a longer active streak of NCAA Tournament appearances than Stanford’s 28. The Lady Vols have earned a bid to all 34 NCAA Tournaments.

The Cardinal’s 77 wins in the NCAA Tournament are third all-time behind Tennessee (120) and Connecticut (103) as are its 104 tournament games. Tennessee has appeared in 146 and Connecticut 120.

Stanford’s .740 NCAA Tournament winning percentage is fourth all-time among programs with a minimum of 20 appearances behind Connecticut (.858), Tennessee (.822) and Baylor (.750).