STANFORD, Calif. – No. 11 Stanford improved to 3-1 with an 88-54 nonconference rout of CSUN Sunday at Maples Pavilion.
Eleven Cardinal found their name in the scoring column, led by Erica McCall's game-high 17. Brittany McPhee notched 14 points and freshman Nadia Fingall contributed as many off the bench on 7-of-8 shooting.
Hall of Fame head coach Tara VanDerveer (983-226) now is 17 victories away from joining Tennessee's Pat Summitt as the only NCAA women's basketball coaches with 1,000 career wins.
Fifty-two of Stanford's points came in the paint and 27 of those were of the second-chance variety. The Cardinal's bench outscored that of the Matadors, 44-14.
The Cardinal shot 47.8 percent from the field and was 5-of-15 from beyond the arc. Stanford welcomed the hot hands after going 22-of-58 from the floor (.379) and 3-of-18 from deep (.167) in its last outing.
Stanford's defense held the Matadors (2-2) in check throughout the early stages of the first half, limiting the visitors to poor shot selections with the shot clock winding down on multiple occasions. That trend continued for the remainder of the contest, with CSUN connecting at a 32.4 clip while hitting only a trio of three-point attempts.
The Cardinal outrebounded CSUN by 23 and Fingall, Alanna Smith and Kaylee Johnson tied for the team lead with seven apiece.
Marta Sniezek dished out five of Stanford's 19 assists. The sophomore entered the affair averaging 4.9 assists with a 2.47 assist-to-turnover ratio in her past 18 games.
Karlie Samuelson, the active NCAA leader in career 3-point field goal percentage, finished 1-of-3 from distance.
Stanford moved to 3-0 all-time against CSUN, with its first two wins coming 36 years apart. The Cardinal beat the Matadors, 98-69, on Jan. 6, 1979, and did not face them again until the 2015 NCAA Tournament. That 73-60 postseason win in Maples on March 21, 2015, was the 800th of VanDerveer's career at Stanford and made her the 10th college basketball coach -- men's or women's -- with that many victories at a single Division I school.
The 2015 meeting saw Stanford break the game open with a 14-0 run early in the second half. The Cardinal made 18-of-23 free throws in the second half, while the Matadors were just 1-for-1.
The same went for today's matchup: Stanford was 12-of-15 from the line in the second half and the Matadors were 1-of-5.
Stanford bumped its record to 130-0 at home this millennium when holding opponents to 54 points or fewer.
The Cardinal, coming off a 68-63 loss to Gonzaga on Friday, has not lost back-to-back games in the month of November since 2006 and has not dropped consecutive games to unranked opponents at home since 2001.
Stanford will pack its bags and sunscreen when it takes on Northeastern (Nov. 24), Wichita State (Nov. 25) and Purdue (Nov. 26) in the Cancun Challenge.
