Brink Picks Up Two More All-America Honors

STANFORD, Calif. – Cameron Brink picked up two more All-America honors on Tuesday when she was named to the first team by both The Sporting News and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.
 
The pair of awards are just the latest in what will become a long list of Brink's postseason accolades. The Pac-12 Player and Defensive Player of the Year was named a first-team All-American by both The Athletic and ESPN earlier this month.
 
Brink is the nation's leading active shot blocker with 406 in her career and recently became the 17th Division I player with 400 career rejections. She leads the country in both total blocks (109) and blocks per game (3.52), and is 19 shy of the Pac-12 record (Ruth Hamblin, Oregon State – 425).
 
Brink is third nationally in rebounds per game (12.0) and using College Basketball Reference advanced metrics, she tops all DI players in box plus/minus (24.0), win shares per 40 minutes (.435), total rebound percentage (24.7), and block percentage (13.0). Her defensive rating of 69.6 is second.
 
She is the only player in the country averaging 17.0 points, 12.0 rebounds and 3.0 blocks per game this season, numbers that have only been put up for an entire season six times by a major conference player since 1999-2000, most recently Oklahoma State's Natasha Mack in 2020-21. Brink is in the midst of one of the most efficient seasons by a major conference player in available records dating back to 2002-03 and currently leads the nation with a PER of 46.62.
 
She had a career-high nine assists to go with 16 points and 12 rebounds in the Pac-12 Tournament quarterfinal win over No. 13 Oregon State and currently has 109 blocks and 89 assists this season. Only one other player has had 100 blocks and 100 assists in a single season in available records since 1999-2000. Breanna Stewart did it three times for UConn in 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16.
 
Brink is also the first college player with 500 points, 300 rebounds and 100 blocks in back-to-back seasons since Stewart (2014-16). When she grabs nine more rebounds, she will join Brittney Griner (Baylor), Courtney Paris (Oklahoma) and Sandora Irvin (TCU), as the only players with 1,800 career points, 1,200 career rebounds and 400 career blocks in the past 25 years.
 
Brink and the Cardinal are the No. 2 seed in Portland Regional 4 and open the NCAA Tournament at home on Friday, March 22 at 7 p.m. against No. 15-seed Norfolk State.