STANFORD, Calif. - Junior guard Kiana Williams has been named one of eight Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-Region 5 honorees and is now a finalist in consideration for the 2020 WBCA Division I Coaches' All-America Team, the organization announced Wednesday.
Williams is joined on the Region 5 squad by seven other members of the Pac-12, including Ruth Hebard (Oregon), Sabrina Ionescu (Oregon), Aari McDonald (Arizona), Michaela Onyenwere (UCLA), Mikayla Pivec (Oregon State), Satou Sabally (Oregon) and Destiny Slocum (Oregon State). The 10-member All-America Team will be chosen from a list of 52 candidates next week.
Already an honorable mention All-America selection by both the Associated Press and United States Basketball Writers Association, Williams was the heart and soul of a Stanford squad that finished tied for second in the regular season of the hardest conference in the nation and advanced to the Pac-12 Tournament championship game before the season's end.
She averaged a career-highs in both points and rebounding her third year with the Cardinal, and was also voted All-Pac-12 by both the coaches and media this season.
Williams led the Cardinal in scoring, assists and made 3-pointers as a junior, while serving as a true floor general for the Cardinal. Williams averaged a team-high 34.2 minutes per game and was one of two on the team to start every contest. Her scoring average rose as the season wore on, finishing at 15.0 points per game, including nine straight games in double figures to finish the season.
Finishing with 25 double-digit scoring efforts on the year, Williams led the Cardinal in scoring 12 times, including nine 20-plus point efforts. She dished out 127 assists on the year, good for an average of 3.8 per game when she wasn't putting the ball in the basket herself. A hound on the defensive end as well, Williams played a key role in Stanford's scout-oriented schemes as she ranked second on the team with 35 steals. Perhaps her most talked about moment of the year was her heroics in Boulder, scoring the game-tying 3-pointer with 12 seconds left in regulation, getting a steal, and heaving a 40-foot, game-winning buzzer-beater against Colorado in February, earning SportsCenter's top play of the weekend. That game was Williams' finest in the scorebook, as the junior finished with a career-high 29 points and seven 3-pointers.
Williams will enter her senior season fifth in program history in made 3-pointers (229) and 25th in scoring (1,372).