STANFORD, Calif. – Five Cardinal received recognition from the league's coaches when the All-Pac-12, All-Defensive and All-Freshman teams were announced by the conference office on Tuesday morning.
Erica McCall, Brittany McPhee and Karlie Samuelson were voted to the 15-person All-Pac-12 squad, Briana Roberson was one of six named to Pac-12 All-Defensive team and Nadia Fingall earned Pac-12 All-Freshman honorable mention accolades.
McCall was awarded All-Pac-12 honors for the second consecutive season after averaging team highs in points (15.0), rebounds (8.5) and blocks (1.5). The senior has scored in double figures in all but three games this season, collected 12 double-doubles and leads the conference in offensive rebounds with 3.9 per game.
On watch lists for the Naismith Trophy, Wade Trophy, Wooden Award and Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, McCall is 27th in school history in points (1,278), eighth in rebounds (889) and fourth in blocks (182). She's one of only four players at Stanford with 1,200 points, 800 rebounds and 180 blocks (Jayne Appel, Chiney Ogwumike, Val Whiting) and is one of five players in conference this season in the league's top 10 in both scoring and rebounding.
A psychology major with a 3.58 GPA, McCall is also accomplished in the classroom and earlier this month was selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Women's Basketball team for the second consecutive season. She's a finalist for the Senior CLASS Award and will graduate a quarter early, finishing her studies at the end of the winter session.
McPhee earned her first conference nod following a breakout junior campaign in which she averaged 12.9 points, 5.0 rebounds and 1.6 assists. Fifteenth in the league in points per game, McPhee has upped her scoring average by 6.4 over last season, the third-best improvement in the Pac-12. Nineteen of her 29 career games scoring in double figures have come this season, which included her first career double-double when she scored 26 and grabbed 11 rebounds against Colorado on Feb. 10.
In the nonconference portion of Stanford's schedule, McPhee torched then-No. 8 Texas 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 this millennium.
Samuelson, a league honorable mention selection last season, moved up to the All-Pac-12 team with a sterling senior campaign in which she's averaged career highs in points (12.5), rebounds (3.7), assists (2.6), field goal percentage (.488) and 3-point field goal percentage (.477). Samuelson is third in 3-point field goal percentage this season and fourth in the nation among active players with a .437 career mark.
The senior is 35th in program history in scoring with 1,068 career points and fourth in 3-pointers made with 224. Her career 3-point percentage is second in the Cardinal record books to Jennifer Azzi (.452) and she will likely go down as owning two of the three best single seasons in terms of 3-point percentage in program history. Samuelson's .473 clip as a junior last season is currently second to Azzi's .495 in 1988-89.
Tasked with guarding the opponent's top perimeter player each game, Briana Roberson was voted one of the conference's six best defenders by Pac-12 coaches. She's the third Stanford guard to win recognition on the Pac-12 All-Defensive team, joining Amber Orrange and Ros Gold-Onwude.
Another of Stanford's senior captains, Roberson has had her best season in a Cardinal uniform in her final year on The Farm. She's started 29 of her 30 appearances, averaged 6.9 points, 2.1 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.0 steals.
Fingall has appeared in 29 games, making eight starts and averaging 5.1 points on 53.7 percent shooting and 2.9 rebounds in receiving Pac-12 All-Freshman honorable mention accolades. She's scored in double figures six times and is the conference's third-best freshman from the floor in terms of field goal percentage.
Stanford, the No. 2 seed in the upcoming Pac-12 Tournament, has a bye into the quarterfinals and will play the winner of No. 7 Washington State and No. 10 Colorado on Friday, March 3 at 6 p.m.
