Bay Battle Part One

No. 10 Stanford (22-4, 12-2)
at California (17-9, 5-9)
Thursday, Feb. 16 • 8 p.m.
Haas Pavilion • Berkeley, Calif.
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THE GAMEIn a three-way tie for first in the Pac-12, No. 10 Stanford (22-4, 12-2) travels to Cal (17-9, 5-9) for the season's first installment of the Battle of the Bay on Thursday, Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. Kate Scott, Mary Murphy and Kerith Buke have the call on Pac-12 Network and Pac-12 Bay Area.

THE RUNDOWNStanford, 12-2 in conference, is in a three-way tie for first in the Pac-12 with Oregon State and Washington ... On Feb. 3, Tara VanDerveer became the third Division I basketball coach to win 1,000 games when Stanford beat USC 58-42 ... She owns a 1,002-229 career record and has more wins than 341 of the country's 349 Division I programs ... Stanford is 6-0 in road conference games, the only Pac-12 school without a league loss away from home ... Stanford is 111-22 (.835) on the road the last 10 years ... Since 2007-08, the Cardinal owns a conference road record of 77-10 ... The Cardinal is one of seven teams in the country in the top 20 in both field goal percentage and field goal percentage defense ... Stanford shot 30 percent on 3-pointers in its first 11 games, but has made 40 percent in its last 15 ... Erica McCall has 28 double-doubles in her last 60 games ... She is 29th in school history in points (1,235), ninth in rebounds (848) and fourth in blocks (176) ... Karlie Samuelson is fourth among active players in career 3-point field goal percentage (.435), fourth in school history in 3-point makes (214) and 36th in points (1,016) ... She is fourth nationally in 3-point field goal percentage this season (.477) ... Brittany McPhee's 7.1 per game scoring increase over last season is the best in the Pac-12 ... Marta Sniezek has 24 assists and just three turnovers in the last four games.

#TARA1K• In her 31st season on the bench at Stanford, Hall of Famer Tara VanDerveer has accumulated a 1,002-229 record in her 37+ years as a collegiate head coach and an 850-178 mark on The Farm.
• Her teams have won 20 or more games 32 times, including each of the last 16 seasons, and VanDerveer has coached a team to 30 wins 13 times. Pat Summitt (36) and C. Vivian Stringer (34) are the only coaches to lead their teams to more 20-win seasons.
• In November 2013, VanDerveer became just the fifth college women's basketball coach to win 900 career games and on Feb. 3 she joined her good friend Pat Summitt as the only NCAA women's basketball coaches with 1,000 career wins.

Simply the best.

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— Stanford WBB (@StanfordWBB) February 4, 2017

• Summitt (1,098) along with Mike Krzyzewski at Duke (1,063) and Herb Magee at Philadelphia University (1,049) on the men's side are the only college basketball coaches with 1,000 wins.
• VanDerveer has more career wins than 341 of the country's 349 Division I programs.
• Of her 1,002 career wins, 431 have come in Maples, 465 have come against Pac-12 opponents, 78 have come in the NCAA Tournament and 165 have come against ranked teams (ranking records since 1981).
• There were 13,945 days between her first career win on Dec. 1, 1978 and her 1,000th on Feb. 3, 2017.
• Through her first 37 seasons, VanDerveer averaged 26.5 victories and just 6.1 losses per year.

• She's had one losing season, her first at Stanford when the team went 13-15 in 1985-86 after going 9-19 the year before.
• VanDerveer has been a four-time national coach of the year (1988, 1989, 1990, 2011), 14-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year and two-time Big Ten Coach of the Year.
• She has led her Stanford teams to two NCAA Championships (1990, 1992), 11 NCAA Final Four appearances, 22 Pac-12 regular-season titles, 11 Pac-12 Tournament crowns and 28 trips to the NCAA Tournament. She also guided Idaho to one AIAW Tournament appearance and Ohio State to a pair of NCAA Tournaments.
• Overall, VanDerveer has coached her players to two Wade Trophy Player of the Year honors, two Naismith Player of the Year honors, 30 first-team All-America honors (WBCA and Associated Press), 18 Pac-12 Player of the Year awards, 67 first-team All-Pac-12 selections and nearly 40 appointments to USA Basketball teams.
CATCHING YOU UP IN CONFERENCE• Stanford used an 18-0 run as part of a 31-point first quarter in an 87-51 win over Utah on Sunday.
• The 36-point margin of victory was the Cardinal's largest in conference since a 44-point win at Arizona (96-52) on Jan. 17, 2014.
• Brittany McPhee had her first career double-double with 26 points and 11 rebounds and the Cardinal beat Colorado 64-51 on Jan. 10. Erica McCall added a 15-point, 10-rebound double-double of her own, Marta Sniezek handed out eight assists without a turnover and Alanna Smith contributed a career-high five blocks in the win.
• Stanford moved to 41-4 following a loss the past 10 seasons in beating the Buffs.
• No. 15 UCLA beat Stanford 85-76 on Feb. 6 to end the Cardinal's season-high, seven-game win streak.
• Stanford, which shot 43.1 percent in the loss, had won 26 straight when making over 40 percent.
• It was the Cardinal's 12th time giving up 80 points in conference since 2000 and the most points Stanford had surrendered in regulation at home since No. 7 Arizona scored 90 on Feb. 28, 1998.
• Karlie Samuelson tied a season high with 21 points, Stanford outscored USC 21-10 in the third quarter and the Cardinal won its 15th straight game at home against the Trojans on Feb. 3 58-42.
• Briana Roberson scored all 14 of her points in the second half and the Cardinal erased an 18-point deficit to beat No. 7 Washington 72-68 in front of a sellout crowd of 10,000 in Seattle on Jan. 29.

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— Stanford WBB (@StanfordWBB) January 30, 2017

• The comeback was Stanford's largest since it won at USC 64-59 on Feb. 21, 2014 after being down 19.
• Stanford moved to 61-0 all-time against Washington State in beating the Cougars 76-54 on Jan. 27.
• Erica McCall scored 18 points, Stanford held Arizona State under 30 percent shooting and the Cardinal ended the Sun Devils' two-game winning streak in Maples Pavilion with a 66-56 win on Jan. 22.
• Karlie Samuelson made her 200th career 3-pointer, Stanford hung 28 first-quarter points on Arizona and the Cardinal beat the Wildcats 73-46 on Jan. 20.
• Samuelson and Brittany McPhee combined for 38 points, including 25 on a perfect 9-for-9 shooting in the third quarter, and Stanford won at Colorado 84-70 on Jan. 15.
• Up eight after three quarters, Stanford used a 27-point fourth to put away Utah 77-58 on Jan. 13.
• No. 16 Oregon State outlasted Stanford in the Cardinal's first double-overtime game in nine seasons on Jan. 8 72-69 in a game that featured 10 ties and 11 lead changes.
• It was the Cardinal's third double-overtime game in program history. Stanford lost at home to San Francisco 79-78 on Feb. 24, 1981 and beat Utah on the road 81-77 on Nov. 18, 2007.
• Alanna Smith scored a career-high 24 points in 20 minutes off the bench, including 14 in the fourth quarter, and Stanford beat Oregon 81-60 on Jan. 6.
• Stanford opened conference play with its first sweep in the desert since 2014, winning at No. 18 Arizona State 64-57 and Arizona 77-55.
SETTING THE STAGE• Stanford is 66-19 all-time against Cal dating back to Feb. 12, 1975, 29-11 against the Golden Bears on the road and has won 16 of the last 18 in the series.
• Stanford has come out on top in seven straight in Haas Pavilion. Its only loss there in the past 20 years was on Jan. 18, 2009 (57-54).
• The two schools played the first intercollegiate women's basketball game on April 4, 1896 at a San Francisco armory on Page Street the day before Easter. Stanford won 2-1.
• Stanford is 111-22 (.835) on the road the last 10 years, one of only four schools to have more than 100 road wins along with Connecticut (114), Green Bay (112) and Notre Dame (105).
• The Cardinal, 6-0 away from Maples Pavilion in conference games, is the only Pac-12 school without a road loss in league play.
• Since 2007-08, the Cardinal owns a conference road record of 77-10 and a Pac-12 home record of 83-6.
• Stanford has the most conference wins of any team the past decade with 160. Marist and Green Bay are tied for second (157) and Connecticut is fourth (156).
• The Cardinal's all-time Pac-12 record is 483-71 (.872), more than 150 wins clear of the next closest team (Washington - 332).
• The Cardinal's 71-52 victory at George Washington on Dec. 21 was its 300th since 2007-08. Now at 313 only Connecticut (359) and Baylor (314) have more the past 10 years.
• Stanford is 19th in the nation in field goal percentage (.459), sixth in field goal percentage defense (.342), 26th in scoring defense (56.4), 38th in scoring offense (74.5) and 13th in scoring margin (+18.1).
• The Cardinal is one of seven teams in the country in the top 20 in both field goal percentage and field goal percentage defense along with Baylor, Duke, Connecticut, Green Bay, South Carolina and Central Arkansas.
• Stanford is third in the nation in field goal percentage defense the past 10 years, holding its 358 opponents to 34.5 percent shooting (7,437-of-21,576).
AGAINST RANKED• From 2000 to 2012, Stanford played 22 conference games against ranked opponents and went 16-6. In just the last five seasons, the Cardinal has played a ranked Pac-12 team 25 times, going 16-9.
• Stanford is 67-32 (.677) against AP ranked opponents since 2007-08, fifth in the country in such wins over that span and fourth in percentage.
• Connecticut (.903), Baylor (.756), Notre Dame (.717), Stanford (.677), Tennessee (.617), Duke (.553), Maryland (.543) and Texas A&M (.518) have winning records against ranked teams the past decade.
AMONG THE BEST EVER• With a 1,026-316 overall record, the Cardinal is the seventh-winningest program in women's college basketball history. Tennessee (1,315), Louisiana Tech (1,086), Connecticut (1,071), James Madison (1,063), Texas (1,033) and Old Dominion (1,027) are the only schools with more victories.
• The Cardinal's .765 winning percentage is fourth all-time in Division I, trailing Tennessee (.810), Connecticut (.783) and Louisiana Tech (.780).
STEP UP IN SHOOTING• In the season's first 11 games, Stanford was shooting just 63.4 percent from the line (135-of-213) and 29.9 percent from behind the arc (56-of-187).
• The Cardinal has improved those numbers since, making 71.0 percent of its free throws (196-of-276) and 40.2 percent of its 3-pointers (106-of-264) in its last 15 outings.
BIRD SOARING• On Feb. 9, Erica McCall was selected to the 2016-17 CoSIDA Academic All-District Women's Basketball Team for the second consecutive season. A psychology major with a 3.58 cumulative GPA, she now advances to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Team ballot.
• Since the start of her junior year, McCall is averaging 15.2 points on 49.0 percent shooting and 8.9 rebounds, one of just three players in the country with those numbers since the beginning of the 2015-16 season (Kristine Anigwe - Cal; Brionna Jones - Maryland).
• McCall, on watch lists for the Naismith Trophy, Wade Trophy, Wooden Award and Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, became Stanford's 37th 1,000-point scorer at George Washington on Dec. 21. She is currently 29th in program history with 1,235.

• Her 176 career blocks are fourth at Stanford. Jayne Appel (278), Chiney Ogwumike (202) and Val Whiting (201) own the top three spots in program history. She is also ninth in school history with 848 career rebounds.
• McCall's 30 career double-doubles are tied for 16th among active NCAA players and she's had 28 in her last 60 games, tied for ninth in the country over that span.
• At Stanford since 2000, McCall is sixth in double-doubles behind Chiney Ogwumike (85), Nicole Powell (58), Nneka Ogwumike (51), Jayne Appel (46) and Kayla Pedersen (40).
• In 14 Pac-12 games McCall is averaging 14.7 points, 8.3 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game, one of 16 players in the nation averaging those numbers in conference. The list also includes Cal's Kristine Anigwe and UCLA's Monique Billings from the Pac-12 (minimum eight games played).
TAKE AIM• Karlie Samuelson is fourth in career 3-point field goal percentage (.435) among active NCAA players and with 214 3-pointers made is fourth in Stanford history, 23 behind older sister Bonnie.
• On Feb. 10 against Utah she became the program's 38th 1,000-point scorer and is now 36th (1,016).

• Samuelson is averaging 13.6 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.4 assists while shooting 51.7 percent from the field and 50.0 percent from deep in 14 league games. She is one of three players in the country averaging 13/4/3 while shooting 51 percent from the floor and 50 percent on 3-pointers in conference (Cassie Broadhead - BYU; Taylor Ross - Stephen F. Austin).
• Her career 3-point percentage would be second in program history to Jennifer Azzi (.452). Kelley Suminski is the only other Cardinal to make more than 40 percent of her 3-pointers in a career (minimum 150 3FGM). She converted 208-of-514 from 2002-05 (.405).
• Since older sister Bonnie arrived on campus as a freshman for the 2011-12 season, the Samuelson sisters have made 451 of Stanford's 1,275 3-pointers during that time, or 35.4 percent.
• Karlie Samuelson, Oregon's Lexi Bando (.468; 2015-17) and Cal's Kristin Iwanaga (.422; 2002-05) are the only Pac-12 players to shoot better than 42.0 percent from behind the arc for their career this millennium (minimum 100 3FGM).
• In her last 47 games, Samuelson is 113-of-228 on 3-pointers (.496). She is currently fourth in the country in percentage from behind the arc this season (.477).
• As a junior, Samuelson was 80-of-169 on 3-pointers in 2015-16 and checked in at third in the nation in 3-point field goal percentage (.488).
• More than 70 percent of her career attempts are from 3-point range and more than 80 percent of her points have come on 3-pointers and free throws. Samuelson is 106-of-214 (.495) on two-point shots.
• Against Arizona on Jan. 20, Samuelson became the eighth Stanford player to make 200 3-pointers in a career, joining Candice Wiggins, Jeanette Pohlen, Bonnie Samuelson, Vanessa Nygaard, Kelley Suminski, Sebnem Kimyacioglu and Nicole Powell.
McPHIRE• Junior Brittany McPhee is 14th in the Pac-12 averaging 13.6 points per game.
• McPhee, who averaged 6.5 points per game as a sophomore, has increased her average output by 7.1 points, more than any other player in the Pac-12.

Pac-12 Per Game Scoring Improvement

• She is one of five players in the conference who have upped their scoring output by at least six points from a year ago - Breanna Brown, Oregon State (+6.7); Ivana Kmetovska, Washington State (+6.7); Kennedy Burke, UCLA (+6.6); Marie Gulich, Oregon State (+6.1).
• McPhee is the ninth-best shooting guard among Power 5 conference players in the country with a field goal percentage of .479. She is shooting 26.5 percent on threes (18-68) and 54.6 percent from inside the arc (118-216).
• Eighteen of her 28 career games scoring in double figures have come this season.
• The junior torched then-No. 8 Texas on Nov. 14 for a career-high 28 points on 11-of-15 shooting (.733) and followed that up with 22 points against Gonzaga her first back-to-back 20-point games.
• Her performance from the floor against the Longhorns was the most efficient for a Stanford guard against a ranked opponent with records dating back to 1999-00 (minimum 10 field goals made).
• Four-time All-American Candice Wiggins is second on that list, converting 55.6 percent in games against No. 16 Minnesota on Nov. 20, 2005 (10-of-18) and No. 23 UTEP on March 24, 2008 (15-of-27).
DISHIN'• Marta Sniezek, who has handed out five or more assists in 22 of her 61 career appearances, is averaging 4.5 assists per game this season.
• In the last 20 years, only Nicole Powell, Milena Flores and Jeanette Pohlen have averaged more assists for Stanford over the course of a season. Powell averaged 6.3 in 2001-02 and 4.7 in 2000-01. Flores averaged 7.3 in 1998-99, 6.1 in 1997-98 and 5.9 in 1999-00 and Pohlen averaged 4.8 in 2010-11.
• Sniezek has handed out 24 assists against just three turnovers in the last four games.
IN THE POLLS• Stanford is No. 10 in the AP top 25 and No. 10 in the USA TODAY Coaches Poll.
• It has been ranked 510 times out of 725 total AP polls since 1977 (70.3 percent), with an average positioning of 7.1. It's been in the past 301, the second-longest active streak behind Connecticut (446). Stanford has been in 309 consecutive coaches polls.
• The Cardinal's No. 8 AP ranking is its highest since checking in at No. 7 on Dec. 15, 2014.
• Stanford is also 11th in the NCAA RPI and has played the nation's 15th-toughest schedule.
• According to women's basketball guru Mel Greenberg, Tara VanDerveer (519 weeks) needs four more AP women's basketball poll appearances to move to No. 2 behind Pat Summitt (618) and ahead of Andy Landers (522).
CARDINAL FOURTUNE• On Nov. 9, Stanford signed Maya Dodson (Alpharetta, Ga./St. Francis), Alyssa Jerome (Toronto, Ontario, Canada/Harbord Collegiate), Estella Moschkau (Mount Horeb, Wisc./Edgewood) and Kiana Williams (San Antonio, Texas/Karen Wagner), collectively rated No. 5 by espnW HoopGurlz.

• Dodson is a five-star talent and the No. 11 prospect in the espnW HoopGurlz Top 100, Moschkau is a five-star prospect rated No. 44 and Williams is a five-star point guard and the No. 8 prospect overall.
• Williams is Stanford's first top-10 recruit since Chiney Ogwumike signed as the top player in the country in Nov. 2009.
• Jerome is a veteran of Canada Basketball and represented her country this summer at the both the FIBA U17 World Championships in Spain and the FIBA Americas U18 Championships in Valdivia, Chile.
• Williams is one of 10 semifinalists for the 2017 Naismith Trophy High School Girls' Player of the Year.
• Dodson and Williams were selected to participate in the 16th annual McDonald's All American Game on March 29 in Chicago.
FOREVER STANFORD• It was a big summer for Stanford alumnae, headlined by Nneka Ogwumike '12 winning the 2016 WNBA MVP award and hitting the game winner in Game 5 of the WNBA Finals with 3.1 seconds left to lift the Los Angeles Sparks to the championship.
• Ogwumike is Stanford women's basketball's seventh WNBA champion and the third Cardinal to win a league most valuable player award in any sport, joining NFL quarterbacks John Brodie (San Francisco 49ers; 1970) and John Elway (Denver Broncos; 1987).
• On Oct. 17, the 2012 Stanford graduate was voted president of the WNBA players' union executive council, a post she will hold for three years. She will serve alongside her sister Chiney '14, who will serve as the organization's vice president. Jayne Appel-Marinelli, who retired this September after a seven-year WNBA career with the San Antonio Stars, will begin her post-playing days as the union's Associate Director of Player Relations.

• Sebnem Kimyacioglu '05, the fifth Stanford alumna to compete in the Olympics, helped Turkey advance to the quarterfinals in the country's second appearance in women's basketball at the Games.
• Kimyacioglu was one of 39 Stanford athletes to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The Cardinal contingent in Rio hailed from 10 countries and spanned 17 varsity sports. The 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games resulted in a school-record 27 medals, the most of any NCAA institution.