STANFORD, Calif. – Brittany McPhee, Alanna Smith and Kiana Williams received recognition from the league's media when their award votes were announced by the conference office on Wednesday morning.
The Pac-12 media awards are in their ninth year and are in addition to the conference awards voted on by the league's coaches, which were announced yesterday. The panel included both local and national media members.
McPhee, who was named Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year last night, was awarded All-Pac-12 honors by the press after averaging career highs in points (18.5), rebounds (5.2), assists (2.5) and steals (1.3) this season. A two-time national player of the week, McPhee has scored 20+ nine times and is one of 10 Power 5 conference guards in the country averaging 18.0 points and 5.0 rebounds. She scored 31 of her career-high 33 in Stanford's 78-65 upset at No. 6 Oregon on Feb. 4, the first 30-point road performance for a Stanford player against a top-10 team since 2007.
The senior became Stanford's 39th 1,000-point scorer in its win over No. 25 Arizona State on Jan. 26 and is currently 30th on the Cardinal's all-time scoring list with 1,185. She led the Pac-12 in scoring in the month of February, averaging 22.9 per game, which was the 19th-best mark in the country.
A human biology major with a 3.71 cumulative GPA, McPhee was voted to the CoSIDA Academic All-District first team on Feb. 22 and is now eligible to earn academic All-America honors. She will become the first Stanford guard to average more than 15 points per game in a season since Candice Wiggins in 2007-08 (20.2).
Smith has also put together her best season yet and earned her first All-Pac-12 recognition from both the conference's coaches and its media as a result. The junior finished the regular season eighth in the Pac-12 in double-doubles (6), 17th in the league in scoring (12.9), ninth in rebounding (7.3) and third in blocks (1.83), all of which are career highs. Of her seven career games with 20+ points, four have come this season. She is also eighth in Stanford history with 138 career blocks, including 53 this year.
Smith was named Pac-12 Player of the Week for the first time on Nov. 27 following her three games at the Play4Kay Showcase in Las Vegas at which she averaged a double-double of 23.7 points and 11.7 rebounds. Her 33-point, 16-rebound performance against No. 9 Ohio State on Nov. 25 was the nation's first 30-point, 15-rebound double-double against an AP top-10 team since Stanford's Chiney Ogwumike went for 32 points and 20 boards against No. 3 Tennessee on Dec. 21, 2013.
Williams was voted a Pac-12 All-Freshman performer by the media for her debut season at Stanford. A two-time Pac-12 Freshman of the Week, Williams has scored in double figures in 14 of her last 22 games and led Pac-12 freshmen in scoring in league games, averaging 11.0 points. In the last 22 games, she's scoring an average of 11.3 per outing on 40.2 percent shooting (88-of-219) and is hitting 50.0 percent of her two-point baskets (41-of-82).
Williams' 51 made 3-pointers are the third most for a Stanford freshman in program history behind Jamie Carey (81; 1999-2000) and Lindsey Yamasaki (65; 1998-99). She set or matched career highs against Cal on Feb. 15 with 26 points, four steals and five 3-pointers. The 26 points were the most for a Stanford freshman since Nneka Ogwumike had 27 in the NCAA Tournament against San Diego State on March 23, 2009.
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 USC and No. 10 Washington State on Friday, March 2 at 6 p.m.
