STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford senior guard Brittany McPhee was named to the USA TODAY Women's Basketball All-America third team on Wednesday.
McPhee, the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year and an All-Pac-12 selection, is averaging career highs in points (17.0), rebounds (5.0), assists (2.4) and steals (1.2) this season.
A two-time national player of the week, McPhee has scored 20+ nine times and is one of 11 Power 5 conference guards in the country averaging 17.0 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 1,207. 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 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. 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 and secured the program's 17th consecutive 20-win season. After falling out of the AP poll for the first time since 2001 in mid-December, Stanford is back up to No. 15 and appeared among first and second-round hosts in the final top-16 tournament bracket reveal by the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Committee on Feb. 20.