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No. 6 Stanford (28-4, 15-3 Pac-12)
vs. UC Davis (25-6, 15-1 Big West)
Saturday, March 23 • 2:30 p.m.
Maples Pavilion • Stanford, Calif.
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THE GAME: Making its 32nd consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance, No. 6 Stanford (28-4) begins its postseason as the No. 2 seed in the Chicago Regional when it hosts 15th-seeded UC Davis (25-6) on Saturday, March 23 in Maples Pavilion at 2:30 p.m.
 
THE RUNDOWN: Stanford is 86-30 all-time in the NCAA Tournament and 36-4 in such games on The Farm ... Maples Pavilion has hosted more NCAA Tournament games (70) than any facility except Tennessee's Thompson-Boling Arena (71) ... The Cardinal, which has been to 11 consecutive Sweet 16s, is a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the 12th time ... Tara VanDerveer leads all coaches in NCAA Tournament appearances with 34 ... Stanford's .875 winning percentage (28-4) is its best entering the tournament since it was 29-3 in 2014 (.906) ... The Cardinal is 6-2 against ranked opponents this season and one of two schools in the nation with four top-10 wins ... Alanna Smith is one of only two players in the country averaging 19.0 points, 8.0 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per game ... She is the only NCAA women's basketball player to accumulate 70 3-pointers, 70 blocks and 600 points in a season in the last 20 years ... DiJonai Carrington is one of four Power 5 conference players in the country under 6'0" averaging 14.0 points and 7.0 rebounds ... Kiana Williams' 81 made 3-pointers are tied for eighth in program history ... Smith, Carrington and Williams combine for 64 percent of Stanford's scoring offense ... Haley Jones, the nation's consensus No. 1 recruit and the Naismith Trophy Girls' High School Player of the Year, is the first top player to sign with Stanford since Chiney Ogwumike.
 
NCAA TOURNAMENT NOTES »

  • Stanford earned its 32nd consecutive and 33rd overall NCAA Tournament bid by collecting the Pac-12's automatic berth into the field after winning its 13th conference tournament championship.
  • Since its first NCAA Tournament appearance in 1982, Stanford has won two national championships (1990, 1992), reached 13 Final Fours (1990-92, 1995-97, 2008-12, 2014, 2017), 19 Elite Eights, 25 Sweet 16s and compiled an NCAA Tournament record of 86-30 (.741).
  • Stanford's 13 Final Four appearances are the third-most by any school entering this year's tournament, and its 33 overall appearances rank behind only Tennessee (38).
  • Tennessee is the only school that has a longer active streak of NCAA Tournament appearances than Stanford's 32. The Lady Vols have earned a bid to all 38 NCAA Tournaments.
  • The Cardinal's 86 wins in the NCAA Tournament are third all-time behind Tennessee (125) and Connecticut (117) as are its 116 tournament games. Tennessee has appeared in 154 and Connecticut 136.
  • Stanford's .741 NCAA Tournament winning percentage is fourth all-time among programs with a minimum of 20 games. Connecticut is No. 1 (.860; 117-19), Tennessee is No. 2 (.812; 125-29) and Baylor is No. 3 (.746; 44-15).
  • The Cardinal is a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the 12th time and first since 2017. Stanford has gone on to reach the Final Four as a No. 2 seed six times (1991, 1995, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2017), defeating the No. 1 seed in the regional final in 1991 (Georgia), 2008 (Maryland) and 2017 (Notre Dame).
  • Tara VanDerveer leads all coaches in NCAA Tournament appearances with 34. Pat Summitt (Tennessee), Andy Landers (Georgia) and Geno Auriemma (Connecticut) are tied for second with 31.
  • VanDerveer's 84 tournament wins are third all-time behind Geno Auriemma (117) and Summitt (112) and her .730 tournament winning percentage (minimum 20 games) is sixth behind Auriemma (.860), Summitt (.830), Linda Sharp (USC/Texas State - .760), Leon Barmore (Louisiana Tech - .747) and Kim Mulkey (Baylor - .746).
  • Stanford has advanced to the Sweet 16 for 11 consecutive years and hasn't lost a game on the first weekend of the tournament since 2007.

 
MADNESS IN MAPLES »

  • As a city, Stanford has served as a host for 70 NCAA Tournament games, the second-most behind Knoxville, Tenn. (86).
  • Each of those games has been played in Maples Pavilion, which has hosted more NCAA Tournament games than any other facility except Tennessee's Thompson-Boling Arena (71).
  • The Cardinal is 36-4 all-time in NCAA Tournament games at Maples Pavilion and has won 16 straight. Its last loss came to Florida State, 68-61, in the Second Round on March 19, 2007.
  • This season will be the 22nd in which Stanford has hosted NCAA Tournament games in Maples Pavilion since staging its first in 1989 and the 21st in which the Cardinal has opened up its postseason at home. Of the program's four home losses in the NCAA Tournament one came in the First Round (Harvard, 1998), two came in the Second Round (Florida State, 2007 and Minnesota, 2003) and one came in a Regional Final (Purdue, 1994).
  • In its most recent NCAA Tournament games in Maples Pavilion, Stanford collected wins over No. 13-seed Gonzaga (82-68) and No. 12-seed FGCU (90-70) in the first and second rounds in 2018.

 
HOW WE GOT HERE »

  • Stanford's .875 winning percentage (28-4) is its best entering the NCAA Tournament since the program was 29-3 in 2014 (.906).
  • The Cardinal avenged an earlier loss to Oregon and won its 13th Pac-12 Tournament in 18 tries with a 64-57 victory over the Ducks in Las Vegas on March 10.
  • The Cardinal lost 88-48 to No. 3 Oregon in the teams' only regular-season meeting on Feb. 10, snapping the program's 22-game home winning streak and its 18-game Pac-12 home winning streak.
  • Stanford had won 29 in a row over the Ducks in Maples Pavilion. Oregon's only other win in the building came on March 5, 1987 (63-54).
  • The margin of defeat was the worst of Tara VanDerveer's career, larger than Idaho's 88-49 loss at Washington on Dec. 9, 1978, her third game as a collegiate head coach and first career loss. It was also the Stanford program's worst since a 42-point defeat at Long Beach State on Feb. 2, 1985 (98-56) and its second-biggest home loss, trailing only a 45-point rout at the hands of Long Beach State on March 10, 1983 (96-51).
  • In the Pac-12 Tournament championship, Stanford held Oregon to season-lows in points (57) and field goal percentage (.339) and to its third-worst effort on 3-pointers (.273). The Ducks came into the game second in the nation in scoring (87.0), third in shooting (.512) and first in 3-point shooting (.425).
  • The Cardinal, which finished second in the league standings, has not won a Pac-12 regular-season title since 2014, the first drought of more than two years in program history.
  • Stanford won 20+ games for the 18th straight season and 30th overall and had double-digit Pac-12 victories for the 32nd consecutive year.
  • Tara VanDerveer won her 900th game as head coach at Stanford on Jan. 20 against Washington State to become the fifth DI coach, women's or men's, with that many at a single school (Pat Summitt, Geno Auriemma, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Boeheim).
  • The Cardinal is 25-0 this season when holding its opponent under 70 points and 23-0 when limiting them to less than 40.0 percent shooting.

 
SETTING THE STAGE »

  • Stanford, which has advanced to the Final Four in seven of the last 11 seasons, is 176-13 (.931) in Maples Pavilion since 2007-08 and has the fourth-best home winning percentage over that span behind Connecticut (.976), Baylor (.964) and FGCU (.934).
  • Stanford is 12-7 all-time against UC Davis and undefeated (10-0) under head coach Tara VanDerveer. All seven of the Cardinal's losses in the series came in its early years, as the Aggies won seven of the first eight from 1974-1978. Since Davis' last win on Feb. 7, 1978, Stanford has won 11 straight.
  • The Cardinal opened this season with a 71-43 win over UC Davis in Maples Pavilion on Nov. 7.
  • Kiana Williams had 14 points and three assists in 18 minutes, Alanna Smith scored 16 points in 15 minutes and Lexie Hull started and had 11 points and 11 rebounds in her collegiate debut.
  • The Aggies shot just 22.6 percent from the floor (14-of-62), the program's second-worst percentage since it made the transition to Division I in 2007-08. UC Davis' lowest field goal percentage in those last  12 seasons is the 18.2 percent it shot against the No. 1 Cardinal in an 87-38 loss on Nov. 30, 2012.
  • Saturday will be the second meeting between Stanford and UC Davis in the postseason. The Cardinal beat the Aggies in a first-round game in Maples Pavilion, 86-59, on March 19, 2011.
  • Nnemkadi Ogwumike scored 22 points and grabbed seven rebounds to lead six Cardinal in double figures. Kayla Pedersen added 11 points and seven assists, Jeanette Pohlen had 11 points and eight assists as Stanford ran its winning streak at home to 62 games.
  • Current assistant coach Lindy La Rocque scored what was then a career high 14 points on 4-of-5 shooting from behind the arc in that win.
  • This is the first time in program history the Cardinal has been matched up in its tournament opener against a team it played during the regular season.

 
ALL-CONFERENCE AWARDS »

  • DiJonai Carrington, Alanna Smith and Kiana Williams were voted to the 15-person All-Pac-12 squad, Smith was also named to the Pac-12 All-Defensive team, Lacie Hull earned a spot on the Pac-12 All-Freshman team and Pac-12 All-Defensive honorable mention accolades and Lexie Hull received a Pac-12 All-Freshman honorable mention nod.
  • Stanford now has 75 All-Pac-12 honorees in program history and 163 all-time Pac-12 awardees including honorable mention, freshman and defensive teams, the top totals in league history.
  • On March 4, Smith was also selected as the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year. She is Stanford's fifth women's basketball awardee, joining Brittany McPhee (2017-18), Chiney Ogwumike (2013-14), Kayla Pedersen (2010-11) and Jayne Appel (2009-10).
  • A school-record 10 Cardinal were named to Pac-12 all-academic teams on March 13. Every player on the roster that met the playing time requirements earned recognition for having over a 3.0. Stanford's three freshmen were not eligible, nor was Marta Sniezek, who hasn't played this season.

 
INJURY BUG »

  • Junior Nadia Fingall, who had started each of the Cardinal's first 12 games and averaged 8.0 points and 4.9 rebounds, will miss the remainder of the season after tearing the ACL in her left knee in a game against USC on Jan. 4.
  • Senior Marta Sniezek has yet to play this year after undergoing offseason ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) surgery on her right hand/thumb. She started 32 games last season.
  • Freshman Lexie Hull returned in Stanford's Jan. 6 win over UCLA after missing the previous nine games with a left foot injury. She had started the first three games of the year.
  • Sophomore Maya Dodson returned to the lineup at Cal on Jan. 31 after missing the previous eight games with a left foot injury. She didn't suit up for Stanford's two wins in Los Angeles on Feb. 15 and 17, has been back on the court for the last seven games and started the past five.

 
AGAINST RANKED »

  • Stanford, 6-2 against ranked teams, is one of two schools in the nation with four top-10 wins (No. 3 Baylor - Dec. 15; No. 9 Tennessee - Dec. 18; No. 7 Oregon State - Feb. 8; No. 6 Oregon - March 10) along with Notre Dame.
  • The Cardinal has won multiple games against top 25 opponents for each of the last 17 seasons.

 
CONFERENCE SUCCESS IN THE TOURNAMENT »

  • Pac-12 teams have seen plenty of postseason success in recent years, winning the most NCAA Tournament games (41) of any conference and posting the best winning percentage (.695) of any Power 5 conference over the last three years.
  • Pac-12 teams have gone 17-1 in the first round during that span, placing at least four teams in the Sweet 16 for the third consecutive year in 2018.
  • The Pac-12 received six NCAA Tournament bids this season, one less of the league record of seven set in 2017. This is the sixth-straight year the Pac-12 has received at least five NCAA Tournament bids.
  • At least two teams have advanced to the Elite Eight the last three years (including three in 2018 and 2016), and there has been at least one Pac-12 team in the Final Four in nine of the last 11 years, including a league record two in 2016 (Oregon State and Washington).

 
OFFENSIVE IMPROVEMENT THIS SEASON »

  • The Cardinal is 37th in the country in scoring offense (74.8) and 25th in scoring margin (+14.0).
  • Stanford hasn't averaged more than 75.0 points per game since 2013-14 and has averaged 68.7 (2017-18), 68.8 (2015-16) and 69.3 (2014-15) in three of the last four years. Those are three of the five lowest scoring offenses for a Tara VanDerveer team at Stanford, behind 1985-86 (66.6) and 1986-87 (67.8).
  • Stanford is 28th nationally in field goal percentage (.449), 30th in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.18) and 50th in fewest turnovers (419).
  • Those categories are just a couple of many where the Cardinal has seen a marked improvement year-over-year. Last season, Stanford was 87th in field goal percentage (.424), 126th in assist-to-turnover ratio (0.93) and 230th in fewest turnovers (518).

 
BACK ON TRACK »

  • Following an offensive lull over through late January and much of February, Stanford got back on track with a blistering performance in a 71-50 win over No. 17 Arizona State on Feb. 24.
  • The Cardinal shot 61.9 percent (26-of-42) from the floor, the program's best field goal percentage against a ranked opponent in 20 seasons (readily available records since 1999-00).
  • Stanford's previous high over the last two decades was the 61.7 percent (29-of-47) it shot in an 86-69 win over No. 16 Purdue on Nov. 26, 2013.
  • The Cardinal was 11-of-12 (.917) from two-point range in the second half.
  • It is the third-highest field goal percentage in the country this season against a ranked team. No. 22 Iowa shot 63.0 percent (34-of-54) in an 81-63 win over No. 23 Minnesota on Jan. 14 and No. 17 Syracuse shot 62.1 percent (36-of-58) in a 94-88 win over No. 22 Florida State on Feb. 28.

 
TRENDS AND PATTERNS »

  • After starting the season 17-1, Stanford went 2-3 over its next five games before reeling off nine consecutive wins heading into the NCAA Tournament.
  • Stanford shot 46.5 percent (535-of-1150) from the floor overall and averaged 80.7 points in its first 18, made 39.8 percent and averaged 66.4 points during its 2-3 stretch and is shooting 44.4 percent and averaging 67.7 points during its nine-game winning streak.
  • Over the season's first 18 games, the Cardinal was making 38 percent of its 3-pointers (177-of-467) and an average of 9.8 per game. In the next five those numbers dipped to 28.2 percent (35-of-124) and 7.0 per game and in the last nine Stanford has been 33.2 percent from behind the arc (72-of-220) and made an average of 8.0 per game.
  • Stanford's last three home games before it's thumping of ASU were its three lowest-scoring games of the season as well as its three worst shooting performances. The Cardinal scored 61 points on 35.8 percent shooting in a 61-44 win over No. 7 Oregon State on Feb. 8, 48 points on 31.7 percent shooting in an 88-48 loss to No. 3 Oregon on Feb. 10 and 56 points on 36.8 percent shooting in a 56-54 win over Arizona on Feb. 22.

 
FROM DEEP »

  • Stanford is 19th in the country, averaging 8.9 3-point makes per game and 51st in 3-point percentage, making 35.1 percent.
  • Stanford's 16 3-pointers on Nov. 11 against Idaho tied a program single-game record also achieved at UCLA on Feb. 24, 2002 and at Washington on Feb. 24, 2001.
  • Entering the season, Stanford had made 14 3-pointers in a game 16 times in 1,389 games (1.2 percent). This year's Cardinal has done it three times against Idaho (16), San Francisco (15) and Tennessee (14).
  • The Cardinal made 31.9 percent of its attempts from behind the arc last season, the second-worst percentage in program history, and was also a program-low 42.4 percent from the floor overall.

 
DEFENSE COMING TOGETHER »

  • Stanford's scouting-report defense, typically one of the strongest in the country, got off to a bit of a slow start this season. Through the season's first 20 games, Cardinal opponents were shooting 36.8 percent from the field, 34.6 percent from behind the arc and averaging 63.7 points per game.
  • From November through January, Stanford was 55th in the nation in field goal percentage defense, 313th in 3-point field goal percentage defense and 167th in scoring defense.
  • The Cardinal has been locked in defensively since the start of February excluding the outlier against Oregon on Feb. 10. In its 11 victories since Feb. 1, Stanford's defense has given up 53.0 points and held its opponents to 32.2 percent shooting (207-of-642) and 25.9 percent from behind the arc (57-of-220).
  • In addition to its lockdown performance against Oregon in the Pac-12 Tournament championship, Cal (50) and Oregon State (44) were limited to season-low points totals and UCLA (51), Arizona State (50) and Washington State (42) were held to their second-lowest.
  • The No. 7 Beavers came in leading the nation in 3-point field goal percentage (.430) and were sixth in field goal percentage (.492). Stanford limited OSU to 44 points on 28.6 percent shooting (16-of-56) and 19.0 percent on 3-pointers (4-of-21).
  • Stanford leads the conference and is 19th in the country in blocks per game (5.2).

 
AUSTRALIAN ALL-AMERICA CANDIDATE »

  • Alanna Smith is on every major watch list, including the Naismith Trophy, Wade Trophy, John R. Wooden Award, Katrina McClain Award and Senior CLASS Award.
  • She received her first All-America honor of the season last Thursday when she was named to the espnW All-America second team.
  • A psychology major with a 3.47 cumulative GPA, two weeks ago Smith was named the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year and last week she became the program's 10th academic All-American when she was voted to the CoSIDA Academic All-American Division I second team.
  • Smith was named the Pac-12 Tournament Most Outstanding Player after posting double-doubles in each of the Cardinal's three wins and averaging 18.7 points and 12.3 rebounds.
  • A three-time Pac-12 Player of the Week this season (Dec. 17, Jan. 14, Feb. 18), the espnW and USBWA National Player of the Week from Dec. 17 and the Naismith Trophy National Player of the Week from Feb. 19, Smith is shooting 51.2 percent from the field, 39.5 percent from behind the arc and averaging a team-high 19.6 points per game to go with 8.6 rebounds and 2.4 blocks.
  • She is just 27-of-94 from behind the arc in her last 15 games (.287) after making 50.5 percent in her first 17 (46-of-91). She has played the last eight games with tape on her shooting hand after breaking the tip of her right ring finger on the first play of the game at USC on Feb. 17.
  • Smith's 73 made 3-pointers are the second most for a player 6'4" or taller over the past 20 seasons. Michigan's Kate Thompson made 110 in 2012-13.
  • Smith, who averaged 20.2 points, 9.2 rebounds and 2.9 blocks in 18 Pac-12 games this season, was one of two players in the country to average 20.0 points, 9.0 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per game in conference (Bella Alarie - Princeton). She is also one of two nationally averaging 19.0 points, 8.0 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per game overall (Alarie).
  • She would be just the fifth player in program history to average 20.0 points and 8.0 rebounds in a season, joining Chiney Ogwumike (2013-14 and 2012-13), Nneka Ogwumike (2011-12), Nicole Powell (2003-04) and Jeanne Ruark Hoff (1979-80 and 1978-79).
  • Smith is 12th in school history in scoring (1,632) and second in blocks (223). She is seventh in conference history in blocks.
  • This season she is 33rd in the country in scoring (19.6) and 23rd in blocks per game (2.38), the only player in the NCAA in the top 40 in both categories (Alarie has only played in 22 of Princeton's 31 games, short of the NCAA statistical minimum of appearing in 75 percent).
  • She is within range of joining an elite company of players that have put together careers of 1,600 points, 150 made 3-pointers and 200 blocks. Since 1999-00, the only three to do that are Elena Delle Donne (3,039 points; 206 3-pointers; 273 blocks), Maya Moore (3,036 points; 311 3-pointers; 204 blocks) and Breanna Stewart (2,676 points; 152 3-pointers; 414 blocks).
  • Smith needs three 3-pointers to put her name in that group.
  • Smith, who has 73 triples, 76 blocks and 628 points is the only NCAA women's basketball player to accumulate 70 3-pointers, 70 blocks and 600 points in a season in the last 20 years. It has been done once on the men's side during that span, by Shane Battier for Duke in 2000-01 (124 3-pointers; 88 blocks; 778 points).
  • Her 76 rejections this year are second in Stanford history behind Jayne Appel's 84 in 2007-08.

 
WATCH WILLIAMS »

  • Kiana Williams has slid over from her natural position of shooting guard to run point this season due to injury and hasn't skipped a beat.
  • Among the five finalists for the Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, she is second on the team in scoring (14.2 points per game), first in assists (4.8) and is attempting to become the first Stanford player to average 4.5 assists in a season since Jeanette Pohlen in 2010-11.
  • Williams, whose 71 3-pointers last season where the second-most for a freshman in Stanford history, has made another 81 this year, which is tied for eighth in program history.
  • She averaged 16.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and 6.3 assists at this year's Pac-12 Tournament. Eleven of her 15 made field goals in the tournament were from behind the arc and in six career Pac-12 Tournament games, she averaging 16.8 points on 56.7 percent shooting, including a 58.5 percent clip from deep.
  • Williams scored seven of Stanford's final nine points in its 64-57 victory over Oregon in the championship, including a step-back 3-pointer with 86 seconds left that put the Cardinal up six.
  • She's made 152 3-pointers in her career, 10th among Power 5 conference players the past two seasons.
  • Williams also averages 34.3 minutes per game, which would be third for a Stanford player in the last two decades. Milena Flores averaged 37.6 in 1999-00 and Chiney Ogwumike played 34.4 in 2012-13.

 
CARRINGTON CLUTCH »

  • DiJonai Carrington was named to the Pac-12 All-Tournament Team after averaging 17.3 points and 8.3 rebounds, including a double-double in the semifinal and 22 points and nine rebounds in the final.
  • The junior has scored 20+ points four times and in double figures in 26 of Stanford's 32 games.
  • She's pulled down 10 or more rebounds in eight games, put up seven double-doubles and is one of four Power 5 conference players in the country under 6'0" averaging 14.0 points and 7.0 rebounds along with Sabrina Ionescu (Oregon), Anriel Howard (Mississippi St.) and Mikayla Pivec (Oregon State).
  • In the Cardinal's second of three top-10 wins this season, Carrington had a career-high 33 points and 13-rebounds in a 95-85 victory at No. 9 Tennessee on Dec. 18. She was 11-of-15 (.733) from the floor and 4-of-5 (.800) from deep and became just the second player in the last 20 years to have 33 points, 13 rebounds and four made 3-pointers against a ranked opponent.

 
RECORDS SET ON ROCKY TOP »

  • On the 30th anniversary of the first meeting in their storied rivalry, Stanford went on the road and beat then-No. 9 Tennessee in Knoxville, 95-85, on Dec. 18.
  • In the first top-10 matchup between the schools since 2013, the Cardinal collected its third win against the Lady Vols in Thompson-Boling Arena. Its previous road victories in Knoxville came on Dec. 22, 2012 (73-60) and Dec. 15, 1996 (82-65).
  • Stanford shot 14-of-24 (.583) from 3-point range, an opponent record for Thompson-Boling Arena and a record-tying number of makes from deep against the Lady Vols all-time.
  • The Cardinal's 95 points were the most against Tennessee in Knoxville in 13 seasons and just two shy of the opponent record in Thompson-Boling Arena. Texas beat the Lady Vols 97-78 on Dec. 9, 1987.
  • Stanford shot 55 percent overall (33-of-60) to score its 95 points, a program record for scoring on the road against a top-10 team.

 
RESUME BUILDERS »

  • Coupled with a Dec. 15 68-63 home victory over then-No. 3 Baylor, Stanford beat a pair of top-10 teams in the span of four days, something it last did eight years ago when it beat No. 4 Xavier, 89-52, on Dec. 28, 2010 and No. 1 UConn, 71-59, on Dec. 30, 2010 to end the Huskies' then-record 90-game winning streak. Both of those victories were at home.
  • The win against the Lady Bears, Baylor's only loss this season, was the Cardinal's first in the regular season against a top-five team since it ended No. 1 UConn's 47-game winning streak in overtime, 88-86, on Nov. 17, 2014.
  • Baylor, which entered the game leading the nation in field goal percentage (.557), shot just 34.9 percent (22-of-63), its lowest since losing 88-69 to Notre Dame in the Elite Eight on March 31, 2014 (.338).
  • Kalani Brown (16.4 ppg) and Lauren Cox (12.3 ppg), who came in averaging nearly 30 combined points per game, together went for just seven points on just 3-of-11 shooting (.273).

 
FOUR TO THE FARM »

  • Stanford bolstered an already strong recruiting class for next season with the addition of the nation's consensus No. 1 recruit, Haley Jones (Santa Cruz, Calif./Archbishop Mitty), who committed on Nov. 28.
  • Jones joined the earlier signings of top-50, five-star talents Fran Belibi (Aurora, Colo./Regis Jesuit), Hannah Jump (Los Altos Hills, Calif./Pinewood School) and Ashten Prechtel (Colorado Springs, Colo./Discovery Canyon) in Stanford's class, which is ranked second nationally by espnW HoopGurlz.
  • Jones, the Naismith Trophy Girls' High School Player of the Year, is the first No. 1 prospect to sign with Stanford since Chiney Ogwumike came to The Farm as the top player in the country in Nov. 2009.
  • Belibi, Jones and Prechtel are on the West Team for the 2019 McDonald's All American Game on March 27. Of Stanford's 24 McDonald's All-Americans all-time, nine will be on the team together next season.