STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford posts Cameron Brink and Kiki Iriafen been named two of 12 Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-Region 5 honorees and are now under consideration for the 2024 WBCA Division I Coaches' All-America Team.
Brink and Iriafen are joined on the Region 5 squad by Raegan Beers (Oregon State), Lauren Betts (UCLA), Yvonne Ejim (Gonzaga), McKenna Hofschild (Colorado State), Charisma Osborne (UCLA), Alissa Pili (Utah), Kiki Rice (UCLA), Jaylyn Sherrod (Colorado), JuJu Watkins (USC) and Desi-Rae Young (UNLV). The selection committee will choose a 10-member WBCA Division I Coaches' All-America Team from a list of 52 candidates across the country's five regions.
Already a two-time WBCA All-American, Brink is the nation's leading active shot blocker with 417 in her career and recently became the 17th Division I player with 400 career rejections. She leads the country in both total blocks (120) and blocks per game (3.64), and is eight shy of the Pac-12 record (Ruth Hamblin, Oregon State – 425).
Brink is third nationally in rebounds per game (11.9) and using College Basketball Reference advanced metrics, she tops all DI players defensive box plus/minus (9.9), total rebound percentage (24.8) and block percentage (13.4). Her defensive rating of 69.4 is second.
She is the only player in the country averaging 17.0 points, 11.0 rebounds and 3.0 blocks per game this season, numbers that have only been put up for an entire season nine 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 46.17.
She pulled down her 1,200th career rebound in Stanford's first-round victory over Norfolk State on Friday night and now has totaled 1,879 points, 1,214 rebounds, 223 assists and 417 blocks. Brittney Griner (Baylor) and Courtney Paris (Oklahoma) are the only other players with 1,800 points, 1,200 rebounds, 200 assists and 400 blocks in the past 25 years.
She had a career-high nine assists to go with 16 points and 12 rebounds in a Pac-12 Tournament quarterfinal win over Oregon State and currently has 120 blocks and 92 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).
Third in the league in scoring (19.2) and rebounding (11.1), Kiki Iriafen is one of two players in the country averaging 19.0 points and 11.0 rebounds per game. She is averaging 21.2 points and 12.2 rebounds in the last 20 games and in nine games against the AP Top 25 this season is averaging 19.3 points and 11.3 rebounds. Iriafen is one of two players in the country averaging 19+ points and 11+ rebounds against the AP Top 25.
The Pac-12 Most Improved Player of the Year has taken a massive leap as a junior and after averaging 6.7 points and 3.8 rebounds as a sophomore, she's putting up 19.2 points (+12.5) and 11.1 rebounds (+7.3) per game this season. Currently, she has the third-best year-over-year improvement in the country in scoring average and is first in rebounding average.
Iriafen is coming off a 41-point, 16-rebound performance in Stanford's second-round victory over Iowa State on Sunday. Her 41 points are a single-game high this tournament and tied for the ninth-most in NCAA Tournament history. The point total is tied for sixth in Stanford single-game history and the most for the Cardinal since Nneka Ogwumike had 42 against Tennessee on Dec. 20, 2011.
Iriafen joined fellow Cardinal Jayne Appel as the only DI players with 41 points and 16 rebounds in an NCAA Tournament game in the past 25 years. Appel had 46 and 16, also against Iowa State, in the Elite Eight on March 30, 2009.
There are five major conference players in the country averaging 17.0 points and 11.0 rebounds per game, and Stanford is the only school with two. Since 1999-2000, no school has had two players average 17.0 points and 11.0 rebounds for an entire season (minimum 18 games). Stanford last had two players average a double-double in the same season in 2011-12 (Chiney and Nneka Ogwumike).
Brink (394) and Iriafen (387) are currently third and fourth in single-season rebounds in Stanford history. Only Chiney Ogwumike has ever pulled down 400 in a season (466 – 2012-13; 446 – 2013-14). No school has had two players with 400 rebounds in the same season in available records dating back to 1999-2000.
Brink, Iriafen and the second-seeded Cardinal are into the Sweet 16 for the 29th time in program history and will face third-seeded NC State on Friday, March 29 at the Moda Center in Portland.
