STANFORD, Calif. - Brittany McPhee was named to the John R. Wooden Award Women's Preseason Top 30 on Tuesday. The Wooden Award All American Team, consisting of the nation's top five players, will be announced the week of the Final Four.
It's the second watch list in two weeks for the Cardinal senior. Last Tuesday, McPhee was put on the watch list for the 2018 Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, given by the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame to the top shooting guard in women's college basketball.
Created in 1976, the John R. Wooden Award is one of the most prestigious individual honors in college basketball. Previous winners include such notables as Larry Bird ('79), Michael Jordan ('84), Tim Duncan ('97), Candace Parker ('07 and '08), Kevin Durant ('09) and Maya Moore ('09 and '11). Stanford's Chiney Ogwumike won the 2014 Wooden Award.
Fifth in the Pac-12 in scoring at 16.5 points per game, McPhee started her year with 24 points on 11-of-22 shooting in the opener at No. 5 Ohio State. She also had six rebounds, three assists and three steals in what was her 10th career 20-point performance and fourth against a ranked opponent.
McPhee had a breakout junior campaign and was named All-Pac-12 and to the Lexington Regional All-Tournament Team. She was second on the team in scoring at 13.3 points per game and improved her scoring average by 6.8 points over her sophomore season.
McPhee scored in double figures 25 times, had seven 20-point efforts and led Stanford offensively in its run to the program's 13th Final Four, averaging a team-high 16.8 points per game and making 44.4 percent from behind the arc in the NCAA Tournament. Among a number of memorable performances, she scored 19 of her game-high 27 in the second half of the Cardinal's 16-point comeback win against No. 2 Notre Dame in the Elite Eight.
A human biology major with a 3.73 cumulative GPA, McPhee was also honored at the 2017 Final Four as women's basketball's Elite 90 award winner, which is presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA's 90 championships.
No. 14 Stanford (0-2) hosts its home opener against UC Riverside (0-2) on Friday night at 7 p.m.