STANFORD, Calif. – Freshmen Kiana Williams and Maya Dodson combined to score 25 points and No. 18 Stanford rolled to a 74-33 win over UNLV on Saturday afternoon.
Williams, who made her first career start along with junior Shannon Coffee and sophomore Anna Wilson, led Stanford (6-4) with 14 points on 5-of-7 shooting, including 12 in the first 20 minutes. Dodson came off the bench and dropped in all 11 of her points in the second half, making 5-of-10 from the floor in the final two quarters to go with four rebounds and two blocks.
Alanna Smith scored nine of her 11 in the first quarter for Stanford, which was coming off the team's two-week break for finals.
Wilson and Williams hit back-to-back 3-pointers as part of a 10-0 Stanford run to start the game which forced a Lady Rebels timeout. The stoppage worked for a spell before Smith reeled off the final seven points of the period for the Cardinal on a 15-foot jumper, two layups and a free throw.
Leading 17-10 after one, Stanford puts the clamps on UNLV (5-4) defensively in the second, limiting the Lady Rebels to just a Brooke Johnson 3-pointer in the middle of the quarter to take a 35-13 lead at the half. The three points were the fewest Stanford has given up in any quarter since women's basketball made the rule change prior to last season.
Again it was Wilson and Williams with back-to-back treys to open the second quarter that set the tone for a sharp shooting Stanford team. Stanford made 5-of-10 from deep and shot 56 percent in the first half while UNLV shot 19 percent (6-of-32) after making just one of its 20 attempts in the second quarter.
Williams hit a 3-pointer and a 3-point play in an 8-0 run that closed the half for the Cardinal following Johnson's triple at 5:42 for UNLV. The Lady Rebels (5-4), which got 19 points from Johnson, finished shooting 23 percent (14-of-62).
Williams started the third with a one-legged floater from just outside the key and Wilson followed by snuffing out a lazy UNLV inbounds pass and taking it herself for two. Coffee made a nice move on the block just under three minutes into the period before Dodson took over.
Stanford's 6-foot-3 freshman got her buckets in an array of ways. Midway through the third she sat herself in the center of the key, took a feed from Alexa Romano and quickly spun to her left to lay it in. Late in the period she pulled down an offensive rebound between two UNLV defenders for another basket and flew in for another offensive board and finish as the third-quarter buzzer sounded.
Dodson beat her defender down the floor early in the fourth and Marta Sniezek found her, threading a bounce pass through a crowd for a streaking layup. Her fifth and final field goal came off another offensive rebound late in the game.
All 12 active players for the Cardinal scored and just two – Smith and Wilson – played more than 20 minutes. Nadia Fingall knocked down a pair of corner triples in the third as part of her six-point performance and Alexa Romano chipped in seven. Kaylee Johnson had six points and 10 boards, her third consecutive game with at least 10 rebounds.
The 33 points allowed tied for the ninth-fewest in Stanford history.
Stanford returns to the court on Monday when it hosts Western Illinois at 7 p.m.