STANFORD, Calif. – Alanna Smith received her second All-America honor of the season when she was named to The Associated Press All-America second team on Monday.
Smith is joined on the second team by Kristine Anigwe (Cal), Kalani Brown (Baylor), Arike Ogunbowale (Notre Dame) and Bridget Carleton (Iowa State). The first team consists of Megan Gustafson (Iowa), Napheesa Collier (Connecticut), Teaira McCowan (Mississippi State), Sabrina Ionescu (Oregon) and Asia Durr (Louisville).
Smith, the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year and second team All-American according to espnW, led Stanford to its 13th Pac-12 Tournament title with a 64-57 win over Oregon in Las Vegas on March 10. She was named the tournament's most outstanding player after posting double-doubles in each of the Cardinal's three wins and averaging 18.7 points and 12.3 rebounds.
She is shooting 51.6 percent from the field, 39.7 percent from behind the arc and averaging a team-high 19.6 points per game to go with 8.6 rebounds and 2.2 blocks. 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. She is also one of two nationally averaging 19.0 points, 8.0 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per game overall.
The 6-foot-4 Smith is 10th in school history in scoring (1,689) and second in blocks (224) and has made 153 career 3-pointers. She is just the fourth NCAA women's basketball player over the past 20 years to put together a career of 1,600 points, 150 made triples and 200 blocks. Since 1999-00, the only others 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, who has 79 triples, 77 blocks and 685 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 79 made 3-pointers are the second most for a player 6'4" or taller over the past 20 seasons. This season she is 33rd in the country in scoring (19.6) and 32nd in blocks per game (2.20), the only player in the NCAA in the top 40 in both categories.
Smith's 77 rejections this year are second in Stanford history behind Jayne Appel's 84 in 2007-08 and her 79 made 3-pointers are 12th. She is 15 points away from becoming the fifth Cardinal player to score 700 in a season (Chiney Ogwumike; Nneka Ogwumike, Candice Wiggins; Kate Stabird).
Smith and the Cardinal are in Stanford's 12th Elite Eight in the past 16 seasons and 20th overall. They play top-seeded Notre Dame tonight at 6 p.m. PT on ESPN2 for a trip to the Final Four.
