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Women's Basketball

Top-10 Clash in Corvallis

No. 8 Stanford (24-4, 14-2)
at No. 10 Oregon State (25-3, 14-2)
Friday, Feb. 24 • 8 p.m.
Gill Coliseum • Corvallis, Ore.
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Television •Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Bay Area/Pac-12 Oregon
Live Statistics •Available via OSUBeavers.com

THE GAMEIn a tie with the Beavers for first in the Pac-12, No. 8 Stanford (24-4, 14-2) travels to No. 10 Oregon State (25-3, 14-2) on Friday, Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. Ann Schatz and Mary Murphy have the call on Pac-12 Network, Pac-12 Bay Area and Pac-12 Oregon.


THE RUNDOWNStanford and Oregon State are tied for first place in the Pac-12 and Friday's winner will clinch at least a share of the 2017 regular-season title ... The Cardinal is 9-1 on the road this season and 7-0 on the road in conference ... 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 1,004-229 career record and has more wins than 341 of the country's 349 Division I programs ... Stanford is 112-22 (.836) on the road the last 10 years ... Since 2007-08, the Cardinal owns a conference road record of 78-10 ... Stanford has won four consecutive games against top-10 opponents ... Erica McCall has 29 double-doubles in her last 62 games ... She is 28th in school history in points (1,253), eighth in rebounds (867) and fourth in blocks (178) ... McCall has scored 25 points in each of her last two games against the Beavers ... Karlie Samuelson is fourth among active players in career 3-point field goal percentage (.437), fourth in school history in 3-point makes (220) and 35th in points (1,044) ... She is fourth nationally in 3-point field goal percentage this season (.482) ... Brittany McPhee's 6.9 per game scoring increase over last season is the best in the Pac-12 ... Marta Sniezek has 35 assists and just eight turnovers in the last six games ... Alanna Smith is averaging 16.2 points on 51.7 percent shooting, 6.6 rebounds and 2.2 blocks in the last five games.


PAC-12 TITLE IMPLICATIONS• Stanford and Oregon State are tied atop the Pac-12 with 14-2 records and Friday's winner will clinch at least a share of the 2017 regular-season title.
• The Cardinal has won outright or shared the regular-season title 23 times out of a possible 30, but has not done so since 2014, finishing in a tie for third each of the last two seasons.
• Stanford has never had a three-year stretch in which it was unable to win at least one Pac-12 regular-season championship. It also had two-year droughts in 1999 (3rd) and 2000 (T-2nd) and 1987 (T-6th) and 1988 (3rd).
#TARA1K• In her 31st season on the bench at Stanford, Hall of Famer Tara VanDerveer has accumulated a 1,004-229 record in her 37+ years as a collegiate head coach and an 852-178 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.

• Summitt (1,098) along with Mike Krzyzewski at Duke (1,065) and Herb Magee at Philadelphia University (1,052) 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 1,004 career wins, 432 have come in Maples, 467 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.
CATCHING YOU UP IN CONFERENCE• Alanna Smith averaged 22.0 points on 53.1 percent shooting, 7.0 rebounds and 2.5 blocks and the Cardinal swept rival Cal last week with a 72-66 win in Berkeley and a 72-54 victory at home.
• Stanford used an 18-0 run as part of a 31-point first quarter in an 87-51 win over Utah on Feb. 12.
• 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.

• 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 24 points 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 54-8 all-time against Oregon State dating back to Feb. 14, 1981, 24-7 against the Beavers on the road and has won 30 of the last 32 in the series. Friday will mark the eighth meeting with both schools ranked in the AP top 25 and first with both in the top 10.
• Stanford is 112-22 (.836) on the road the last 10 years, one of only four schools to have more than 100 road wins along with Connecticut (115), Green Bay (112) and Notre Dame (107).
• The Cardinal, 7-0 away from Maples Pavilion in conference games, is the only Pac-12 school without a road loss in league play.
• Stanford is 9-1 (.900) overall in away games this season. Only Connecticut (1.000), Mississippi State (.923) and Maryland (.917) have been better on the road.
• Since 2007-08, the Cardinal owns a conference road record of 78-10 and a Pac-12 home record of 84-6.
• Stanford has the most conference wins of any team the past decade with 162. Marist is second (159), Green Bay third (158) and Connecticut fourth (157).
• The Cardinal's all-time Pac-12 record is 485-71 (.872), more than 150 wins clear of the next closest team (Washington - 333).
• The Cardinal's 71-52 victory at George Washington on Dec. 21 was its 300th since 2007-08. Now at 315 only Connecticut (360) and Baylor (316) have more the past 10 years.
• Stanford is 22nd in the nation in field goal percentage (.456), 11th in field goal percentage defense (.348), 27th in scoring defense (56.7), 39th in scoring offense (74.3) and 12th in scoring margin (+17.6).
• Stanford is third in the nation in field goal percentage defense the past 10 years, holding its 360 opponents to 34.5 percent shooting (7,488-of-21,698).
AGAINST RANKED• The Cardinal is 4-2 against ranked teams this season, 2-0 against ranked teams on the road and has won multiple games against top 25 opponents for each of the last 15 seasons.
• Stanford has won four straight against top-10 opponents, beating No. 7 Oregon State (Feb. 26, 2016), No. 2 Notre Dame (March 25, 2016), No. 8 Texas (Nov. 14, 2016) and No. 7 Washington (Jan. 29, 2017).
• The Cardinal has a 40-35 record against top-10 teams since 2000 and is 8-16 in such game on the road.
• 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 (.904), Baylor (.758), Notre Dame (.719), Stanford (.677), Tennessee (.617), Duke (.557), Maryland (.537) and Texas A&M (.518) have winning records against ranked teams the past decade.
FEELING COMFORTABLE• The first international recruit in program history, Australian Alanna Smith is increasingly looking more and more comfortable at the end of her sophomore season.
• In her last five games, Smith is averaging 16.2 points on 51.7 percent shooting (31-of-60), 6.6 rebounds and 2.2 blocks in 23.8 minutes.

• Smith's career-high 27 points at Cal were the most for a Stanford player against its rival since Chiney Ogwumike put up 29 in a 79-64 win on Feb. 2, 2014.
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 15.0 points and 9.0 rebounds, one of nine players in the country with those numbers since the beginning of the 2015-16 season.
• 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 28th in program history with 1,253.

• Her 178 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 eighth with 867 career rebounds.
• McCall's 31 career double-doubles are tied for 14th among active NCAA players and she's had 29 in her last 62 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 16 Pac-12 games McCall is averaging 14.0 points, 8.4 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game, one of 21 players in the nation averaging those numbers in conference (minimum nine games played).
• The senior owns career averages of 16.0 points and 7.2 rebounds against Oregon State. She's scored 25 in each of her last two games against the Beavers.
TAKE AIM• Karlie Samuelson is fourth in career 3-point field goal percentage (.437) among active NCAA players and with 220 3-pointers made is fourth in Stanford history, 17 behind older sister Bonnie.
• On Feb. 10 against Utah she became the program's 38th 1,000-point scorer and is now 35th (1,044).

• Samuelson is averaging 13.6 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.2 assists while shooting 51.1 percent from the field and 50.6 percent from deep in 16 league games. She the only player in the country averaging 13/4/3 while shooting 51 percent from the floor and 50 percent on 3-pointers in conference.
• Her .506 3-point percentage (40-of-79) in conference games leads the Pac-12 and is fifth nationally.
• Samuelson's career 3-point percentage would be second in program history to Jennifer Azzi (.452). Krista Rappahahn and Kelley Suminski are the only other Cardinal to make more than 40 percent of their 3-pointers in a career (minimum 150 3FGM). Rappahahn converted 152-of-372 from 2003-06 (.409) and Suminski 208-of-514 from 2002-05 (.405).
• Samuelson will also likely go down owning two of the three best single seasons in terms of 3-point percentage in program history. Azzi has the record of .495 in 1988-89 and Samuelson's .473 clip as a junior last season is currently second.
• Since older sister Bonnie arrived on campus as a freshman for the 2011-12 season, the Samuelson sisters have made 457 of Stanford's 1,286 3-pointers during that time, or 35.5 percent.
• Karlie Samuelson, Oregon's Lexi Bando (.464; 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 49 games, Samuelson is 119-of-239 on 3-pointers (.498). She is currently fourth in the country in percentage from behind the arc this season (.482).
• 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 109-of-222 (.491) 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 13.4 points per game.
• McPhee, who averaged 6.5 points per game as a sophomore, has increased her average output by 6.9 points, more than any other player in the Pac-12.

Pac-12 Per Game Scoring Improvement

Player2016 PPG2017 PPGChange
B. McPhee (STAN)6.513.4+6.9
K. Burke (UCLA)5.812.6+6.8
I. Kmetovska (WSU)1.58.0+6.5
B. Brown (OSU)2.28.6+6.4

• She is one of four players in the conference who have upped their scoring output by at least six points from a year ago - Kennedy Burke, UCLA (+6.8); Ivana Kmetovska, Washington State (+6.5); Breanna Brown, Oregon State (+6.4).
• McPhee is the 13th-best shooting guard among Power 5 conference players in the country with a field goal percentage of .459. She is shooting 24.1 percent on threes (19-79) and 53.2 percent from inside the arc (125-235).
• Her two-point field goal percentage (.532) is 17th in the country among guards (minimum 300 FGA).
• Nineteen of her 29 career games scoring in double figures have come this season.
DISHIN'• Marta Sniezek, who has handed out five or more assists in 23 of her 63 career appearances, is averaging 4.6 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 35 assists against just eight turnovers in the last six games. She leads the Pac-12 and is 12th in the country in assist to turnover ratio in the month of February (4.38).
IN THE POLLS• Stanford is No. 8 in the AP top 25 and No. 6 in the USA TODAY Coaches Poll.
• It has been ranked 511 times out of 726 total AP polls since 1977 (70.4 percent), with an average positioning of 7.1. It's been in the past 302, the second-longest active streak behind Connecticut (447). Stanford has been in 310 consecutive coaches polls.
• It's the second time this season the Cardinal has reached No. 8 in the AP rankings. Stanford hasn't been higher since checking in at No. 7 on Dec. 15, 2014.
• Stanford is also ninth in the NCAA RPI and has played the nation's ninth-toughest schedule.
• The Cardinal is 15-4 against the RPI top 100, tied for the sixth-most wins in the country. Connecticut (18), Baylor (17), Mississippi State (17), Notre Dame (17) and Oregon State (17) are the only schools with more wins against the RPI top 100.
• According to women's basketball guru Mel Greenberg, Tara VanDerveer (520 weeks) needs three more AP women's basketball poll appearances to move to No. 2 behind Pat Summitt (618) and ahead of Andy Landers (522).
• Stanford was projected as a three-seed, coming in at No. 10 in the NCAA Selection Committee's latest reveal from Monday.
• The Cardinal is unable to host the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament. The Pac-12 Women's Gymnastics Championships, which rotate to host sites around the conference each year, will be in Maples Pavilion on Saturday, March 18.
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.
• 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.