STANFORD, Calif. – Erica McCall and Lili Thompson each received recognition from the league’s media when the All-Pac-12 and All-Defensive teams were announced by the conference office on Wednesday morning as voted on by the press that regularly covers Pac-12 women’s basketball.
McCall, who Monday received the same honors from the league’s coaches, leads Stanford in rebounding (9.4) and blocks (2.1) and is second in scoring (14.1). Fifteen of her 17 career double-doubles have come this season and she ranks 14th nationally in that category.
The Cardinal’s junior captain also received the first weekly honors of her career on Monday when she was named both espnW National Player of the Week and Pac-12 Player of the Week for her performances in victories over No. 7 Oregon State (76-54) and Oregon (69-42). McCall posted back-to-back 20-point games for the first time in her career, averaging 25.0 points and 11.5 rebounds. She shot 56 percent from the floor and 44 percent from behind the arc.
A 51 percent overall shooter, McCall made the first 3-pointers of her career against the Beavers and Ducks, going 4-of-9 (44.4 percent) from behind the arc. She has scored in double figures in 14 of Stanford’s last 15 games. In the Cardinal’s last five, McCall is averaging 20.6 points on 59 percent shooting, 9.0 rebounds and 3.0 blocks. On Sunday she joined Jayne Appel, Chiney Ogwumike and Joslyn Tinkle as the only Stanford players to tally 60 blocks in a single season.
The conference’s media also agreed with its coaches and voted Thompson onto the All-Pac-12 squad for the second straight season. She is Stanford’s leading scorer at 14.4 points per game and tops the team in assists with 3.5 per game, both marks which rank 10th in the league. Against Colorado on Jan. 10, the junior captain, became the 36th Stanford player to surpass 1,000 career points. Now at 1,170 she is 29th all-time at Stanford between Maggie Nelson (1,180; 1974-78) and Kami Anderson (1,141; 1984-88).
Thompson has scored 20 or more seven times this season, including in wins against Washington and Washington State at the end of January. In those two, she averaged 28.5 points per game and shot 63 percent from the field (22-of-35) and 71 percent from the 3-point line (10-of-14). Thompson scored 41 percent of Stanford’s points (57) and was named both espnW National Player of the Week and Pac-12 Player of the Week for her efforts.
Stanford, the No. 4 seed in the upcoming Pac-12 Tournament, has a bye into the quarterfinals and will play the winner of No. 5 Washington and No. 12 Colorado on Friday, March 4 at 8:30 p.m.