STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford senior Brittany McPhee has been named one of eight Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-Region 5 honorees and is now under consideration for the 2018 WBCA Division I Coaches' All-America Team the organization announced Thursday.
McPhee is joined on the Region 5 squad by Kristine Anigwe (Cal), Jill Barta (Gonzaga), Monique Billings (UCLA), Jordin Canada (UCLA), Marie Gulich (Oregon State), Ruthy Herbard (Oregon) and Sabrina Ionescu (Oregon). The selection committee with select a 10-member WBCA Division I Coaches' All-America Team from a list of 52 candidates across the country's five regions.
McPhee, the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year and third team All-American according to USA TODAY, is averaging career highs in points (16.8), rebounds (5.4), assists (2.5) and steals (1.3). The senior started off her tournament by averaging a double-double in the first two rounds at home, scoring 14.0 per game and pulling down 10.0 rebounds.
A two-time national player of the week, McPhee has scored 20+ nine times and is one of 14 Power 5 conference guards in the country averaging 16.0 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 1,235. 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. McPhee 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).
A human biology major with a 3.71 GPA, became Stanford's ninth academic All-American when she was named to the 2017-18 CoSIDA Academic All-American Division I second team on March 12. Last season she was 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 grade point average participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA's 90 championships.
With a roster that returned just two starters and lost half of its scoring from a season ago, Stanford played five top-10 teams during the nonconference portion of its schedule and stumbled to a 6-6 mark, its worst heading into league play since 1998-99. Those tough lessons were learned without McPhee, who missed nine games in November and December recovering from a foot injury.
Once McPhee returned and the calendar switched to 2018, the Cardinal regrouped, finished second in the Pac-12 with a 14-3 record, secured the program's 17th consecutive 20-win season and its 11th straight Sweet 16 appearance.
Ten of McPhee's 25 outings this season have been against the AP Top 25 and the senior has averaged 19.0 points and 5.0 rebounds in those games. She is one of seven players in the country averaging 19.0 points and 5.0 rebounds against ranked teams.
The fourth-seeded Cardinal will meet top-seeded Louisville in Lexington, Ky. at 6:30 p.m. PT/9:30 p.m. ET Friday in a regional semifinal on ESPN. In seven NCAA Tournament games the past two seasons, McPhee is averaging 16.0 points, 6.4 rebounds and 3.6 assists.