See You Soon Seattle

No. 10 Stanford (25-5, 15-3)
vs. Washington State (11-18, 6-12) or Colorado (15-14, 5-13)
Friday, March 3 • 6 p.m.
KeyArena • Seattle, Wash.
Pac-12 Tournament Central
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THE GAMENo. 10 Stanford (25-5, 15-3) goes for the program's 12th Pac-12 Tournament title when it begins the event in the quarterfinals at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 3 against either No. 7 seed Washington State (11-18, 6-12) or No. 10 seed Colorado (15-14, 5-13).

THE RUNDOWNStanford is 37-4 all-time at the Pac-12 Tournament and has won 11 of the 15 titles ... The Cardinal is 18-1 at the event when it scores 70 points and 37-0 when it holds its opponent under 70 ... 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 1,005-230 career record and has more wins than 341 of the country's 349 Division I programs ... Stanford is 167-36 (.823) in games away from Maples Pavilion the past 10 years (road/neutral), one of only three schools to have more than 150 such wins ... Alanna Smith is averaging 14.9 points, 7.1 rebounds and 2.1 blocks in the last seven games ... She was one of three non-starters in the country to average 13 points, six rebounds and two blocks in the month of February ... Erica McCall is 27th in school history in points (1,278), eighth in rebounds (889) and fourth in blocks (182) and has 30 double-doubles in her last 64 games, tied for eighth in the country the past two seasons ... Karlie Samuelson is fourth among active players in career 3-point field goal percentage (.437), fourth in school history in 3-point makes (224) and 35th in points (1,068) ... She is third nationally in 3-point field goal percentage this season (.477) ... Brittany McPhee's 6.4 per game scoring increase over last season is the third-best in the Pac-12 ... Marta Sniezek led the Pac-12 and in assist-to-turnover ratio in the month of February (3.15).

PAC-12 TOURNAMENT NOTES• The Cardinal is 37-4 all-time at the Pac-12 Tournament. It has won 11 of the 15 titles (2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015), is 13-1 all-time in the quarterfinals, 13-1 in the semifinals and 11-2 in the finals.
• Against its potential quarterfinal foes, the Cardinal is 1-0 when playing Washington State at the event with a quarterfinal win on March 8, 2013 (79-60). Stanford is a perfect 2-0 against Colorado at the Pac-12 Tournament, beating the Buffaloes in the semifinals on March 9, 2013 (61-47) and in the quarterfinals on March 7, 2014 (69-54).
• It's 7-0 against Arizona, 4-1 against Arizona State, 7-0 against Cal, 2-0 against Oregon State, 9-1 against UCLA, 4-1 against USC and 1-1 against Washington. Stanford has never played Oregon or Utah at the league tournament.
• The No. 2 seed is 17-15 all-time at the Pac-12 Tournament. It's 7-2 against the No. 7 seed and 3-1 against the No. 10 seed. The Cardinal is has never played teams seeded seventh or 10th.
• Stanford was the No. 1 seed every year from 2002-14. It won the tournament as the No. 3 seed in 2015 and lost in the quarterfinals for the first time as the No. 4 seed last season.
#TARA1K• In her 31st season on the bench at Stanford, Hall of Famer Tara VanDerveer has accumulated a 1,005-230 record in her 37+ years as a collegiate head coach and an 853-179 mark on The Farm.
• Her teams have won 20 or more games 32 times 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 (1,053) 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.
• 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.
HOW WE GOT HERE• Stanford's 25 regular-season wins are its most since the program went 28-2 heading into the 2014 Pac-12 Tournament.
• The Cardinal, which finished tied for second in the league standings, has not won a Pac-12 regular-season title since 2014, the first three-year drought in program history.
• Stanford won 20+ games for the 16th straight season and 28th overall and had double-digit Pac-12 victories for the 29th consecutive year.
• The Cardinal won its 25 games with a balanced attack featuring six different leading scorers and three players (Erica McCall, Brittany McPhee, Karlie Samuelson) averaging over 12 points per game.
• UCLA is the only other Pac-12 school boasting a trio of 12-point scorers and it's the first time Stanford has had that many in a season since 2010-11 (Nneka Ogwumike, Jeanette Pohlen, Kayla Pedersen).
• Stanford is 24th in the nation in field goal percentage (.451), eighth in field goal percentage defense (.346), 26th in scoring defense (56.5), 47th in scoring offense (73.1) and 15th in scoring margin (+16.6).
• The Cardinal is one of seven programs in the country in the top 25 nationally in both field goal percentage and field goal percentage defense along with Baylor, Duke, Connecticut, Central Arkansas, Green Bay and South Carolina.
SETTING THE STAGE• Stanford is 167-36 (.823) in games away from Maples Pavilion the last 10 years (road/neutral), one of only three schools to have more than 150 road and neutral wins along with Connecticut (188) and Notre Dame (159).
• The Cardinal is 13-2 this season in road and neutral games, its 85.7 winning percentage tied for sixth in the country.
• Stanford is eighth in the country in field goal percentage defense in road and neutral site games (.350) and fourth in field goal percentage differential (.101), shooting 45.1 percent.
• Since the Pac-12 started its postseason event in 2002, Stanford's 37 conference tournament wins are tied for the second most in the country with Connecticut and Green Bay. Liberty tops that list with 38.
• Stanford is 25-1 in the Pac-12 Tournament when it shoots better than 40 percent and 32-1 when holding its opponent under 40 percent.
• The Cardinal is 18-1 when it scores at least 70 points in Pac-12 Tournament games and is a perfect 37-0 when holding its opponent under 70.
• In the Cardinal's 41 Pac-12 Tournament games, it averages 69.3 points on 42.5 percent shooting and gives up 54.5 points on 34.2 percent shooting.
POSTSEASON AWARDS• 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 on Tuesday morning.

• Stanford now has 70 All-Pac-12 honorees in program history and 151 all-time Pac-12 awardees including honorable mention, freshman and defensive teams, the top totals in league history.
AGAINST RANKED• The Cardinal is 4-3 against ranked teams this season, 2-1 against ranked teams on the road and has won multiple games against top 25 opponents for each of the last 15 seasons.
• Before Feb. 24 in Corvallis, Stanford had 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).
• 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 26 times, going 16-10.
• Stanford is 67-33 (.670) against AP ranked opponents since 2007-08, fifth in the country in such wins over that span and fourth in percentage.
• Connecticut (.904), Baylor (.760), Notre Dame (.721), Stanford (.670), Tennessee (.620), Duke (.557), Maryland (.537) and Texas A&M (.513) have winning records against ranked teams the past decade.
SUPER SUB• The first international recruit in program history, Australian Alanna Smith is looking increasingly comfortable at the end of her sophomore season.
• In her last seven games, Smith is averaging 14.9 points, 7.1 rebounds and 2.1 blocks in 25.0 minutes.
• Of her 16 career games in double figures scoring, eight have come this season in conference play.
• Smith has come off the bench in 27 of her 30 appearances this season. Her 8.2 points per game average in those 27 outings as a substitute is the third-best in the Pac-12. Minyon Moore averages 12.1 points in 25 games off the bench for USC and Alexys Swedlund 10.6 in 16 games off the bench for Washington State.

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• She averaged 13.0 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.0 blocks in the month of February, one of three non-starters in the country with those numbers along with Georgia's Caliya Robinson and Oklahoma's Vionise Pierre-Louis.
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 over the past two seasons along with Kristine Anigwe (Cal), Nia Coffey (Northwestern), Jessica Shepard (Nebraska), Brionna Jones (Maryland), Kaylee Jensen (Oklahoma State), Ally Lehman (Northern Illinois), Channon Fluker (CSUN) and Maya Hood (San Diego).
• McCall, on watch lists for the Naismith Trophy, Wade Trophy, Wooden Award and Ann Meyers Drysdale Award and finalist for the Senior CLASS Award, became Stanford's 37th 1,000-point scorer at George Washington on Dec. 21. She is currently 27th in program history with 1,278.

• Her 182 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 889 career rebounds.
• 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.
• McCall's 32 career double-doubles are tied for 13th among active NCAA players and she's had 30 in her last 64 games, tied for eighth 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 Pac-12 games, McCall averaged 13.8 points, 8.7 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game, one of 13 players in the nation to do that in conference (minimum 10 games played).
• The senior had a 16-point, 14-rebound double-double to close the regular season at Oregon on 8-of-13 shooting (.615). In the previous six games, McCall was averaging 10.8 points on 27.8 percent shooting and 9.0 rebounds.
TAKE AIM• Karlie Samuelson is fourth in career 3-point field goal percentage (.437) among active NCAA players and with 224 3-pointers made is fourth in Stanford history, 13 behind older sister Bonnie.
• On Feb. 10 against Utah she became the program's 38th 1,000-point scorer and is now 35th (1,068). • Samuelson averaged 13.4 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.3 assists while shooting 49.7 percent from the field and 49.4 percent from deep in league games. She was one of two players in the country averaging 13/4/3 while shooting 49 percent from the floor and on 3-pointers in conference (Savannah Scott - Northern Colorado).
• Her .494 3-point percentage (44-of-89) in conference games led the Pac-12 and was sixth 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 461 of Stanford's 1,293 3-pointers during that time, or 35.7 percent.

• Karlie Samuelson, Oregon's Lexi Bando (.463; 2015-17), Cal's Kristin Iwanaga (.422; 2002-05) and Oregon State's Sydney Wiese (.420; 2014-17) 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 51 games, Samuelson is 123-of-249 on 3-pointers (.494). She is currently third in the country in percentage from behind the arc this season (.477).
• 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 114-of-233 (.489) 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 15th in the Pac-12 averaging 12.9 points per game.
• McPhee, who averaged 6.5 points per game as a sophomore, has increased her average output by 6.4 points, the third-best improvement in the Pac-12.
• She is one of five 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 (+6.0); Alexys Swedlund (+6.0).

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• McPhee is the 16th-best shooting guard among Power 5 conference players in the country with a field goal percentage of .448. She is shooting 24.1 percent on threes (20-83) and 51.8 percent from inside the arc (128-247).
• 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 65 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 41 assists against just 13 turnovers in the last eight games. She led the Pac-12 and was 16th in the country in assist to turnover ratio in the month of February (3.15).
• In her Pac-12 Tournament debut last March, Sniezek had 13 assists and zero turnovers in the quarterfinals against Washington. Her assist total was a Pac-12 Tournament record and also the most for a Stanford player in a single game since 1991.
• The 13 assists are tied for third in program history and only equaled by a pair of Stanford greats in Jennifer Azzi and Sonja Henning. Azzi had a program-record 16 on Jan. 15, 1987 against BYU while Henning handed out 15 at Cal on March 1, 1991. Azzi also had 13 against Arizona on Jan. 24, 1987 and Henning the same number against Arkansas on March 24, 1990.
IN THE POLLS• Stanford is No. 10 in the AP top 25 and No. 9 in the USA TODAY Coaches Poll.
• It has been ranked 512 times out of 727 total AP polls since 1977 (70.4 percent), with an average positioning of 7.1. It's been in the past 303, the second-longest active streak behind Connecticut (448). Stanford has been in 311 consecutive coaches polls.
• Stanford is also eighth in the NCAA RPI and has played the nation's seventh-toughest schedule.
• The Cardinal is 16-5 against the RPI top 100, tied for the fifth-most wins in the country. Connecticut (20), Oregon State (19), Notre Dame (18) and Mississippi State (17) are the only schools with more wins against the RPI top 100.
• According to women's basketball guru Mel Greenberg, Tara VanDerveer (521 weeks) needs two 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 Feb. 20.
• 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 both the McDonald's All American Game on March 29 in Chicago and the Jordan Brand Classic on April 14 in Brooklyn.