Stanford in the WNBA
Nneka Ogwumike • F • Los Angeles Sparks • Fifth season
@Nnemkadi30 • Statistics
Ogwumike has always been good, but this season she has been otherworldly and is a frontrunner to take home the league's Most Valuable Player award. This article from FiftyThirtyEight's Neil Paine sums it up quite nicely using some advanced metrics. Simply put, twenty-four games into her fifth season in the WNBA, Ogwumike is averaging career highs in points (19.6), rebounds (9.2), assists (2.8) and blocks (1.3) and has led the Sparks to a 21-3 start. She's shooting over 71 percent from the floor (.7103) and is on pace to break the WNBA record in that category, set by Tamika Raymond in 2003 (.6684).
Chiney Ogwumike • F • Connecticut Sun • Second season
@Chiney321 • Statistics
Not to be outdone, the younger Ogwumike is also putting together an impressive bounce-back season following micro-fracture knee surgery which cost her all of 2015. She's averaging 10.9 points and 5.9 rebounds in 22.4 minutes for the Connecticut Sun while shooting 61 percent from the floor. Only six players in WNBA history have ever finished a season converting at a 60-percent clip from the field. In eight July games, Ogwumike put up avergaes of 16.4 points on 63.6 percent shooting, 8.8 rebounds, 2.0 blocks, and 1.8 steals a game.
Jayne Appel-Marinelli • C • San Antonio Stars • Seventh season
@jayneappel • Statistics
The most veteran of Stanford's players in the WNBA, Appel-Marinelli is averaging 3.0 points, 4.9 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.1 blocks and has started all 23 games for the San Antonio Stars. A 2010 WNBA All-Star and in her seventh season, she has appeared in 148 games since 2012 and started all but four.
Jeanette Pohlen • G • Indiana Fever • Fifth season
@JFP32 • Statistics
Pohlen, who was waived at the end of training camp in May, returned to the only franchise she has ever known on July 6 and has appeared in five games since. Drafted by the Fever No. 9 overall in 2011, she became the first rookie in league history to lead the WNBA in 3-point shooting percentage. Pohlen owns a career shooting percentage of 43.2 percent and her 42.5 percent clip from 3-point range ranks second in Fever history.