STANFORD, Calif. - A final All-America honor has rolled in for junior guard Kiana Williams, this time from the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, as the San Antonio native was named an honorable mention selection for the nation's elite, announced Thursday.
This award comes on the heels of honorable mention All-America accolades from both the Associated Press and the United States Basketball Writers Association. She was named one of eight All-Region finalists from Region 5 by the WBCA.
Also named All-Pac-12 by both the coaches and media, 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.
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).