STANFORD, Calif. – Jzaniya Harriel scored a career-high 24 points and Stanford sank a school-record 18 3-pointers to earn Kate Paye her first win as head coach of her alma mater, a 107-43 rout of Le Moyne on Monday night.
Harriel led the barrage by sinking six of her seven 3-point attempts and going 6-of-8 from the floor overall. Her 24 points were the most for a Stanford player in an opener since Brittany McPhee had 24 at No. 5 Ohio State on Nov. 10, 2017, and in available records dating back to 2002-03, her scoring output was the most for a Stanford player in a game with eight or fewer field goal attempts.
Harriel wasn’t the only Cardinal seeing red. Elena Bosgana had a career-high 19 points in just 15 minutes. She was 5-of-8 from the floor, 4-of-6 from deep, and had seven rebounds, two assists and two steals. Nunu Agara hit one from deep, but did most of her damage inside, scoring 18 and leading the team with a +51 in her 26 minutes on the floor.
Another sophomore, Chloe Clardy, was a perfect 3-of-3 from deep and scored a personal-best 15 points. As a freshman last season, Clardy was 2-of-20 on 3-pointers. Sophomore transfer Mary Ashley Stevenson led Stanford with 10 rebounds. The Cardinal grabbed 45 as a team and has now won 36 consecutive games when pulling down at least 45 rebounds.
It took a few minutes for Stanford to get going, but after starting the game by hitting just one of its first nine attempts, the Cardinal settled into a groove. Stanford shot 62.5 percent and was 7-of-10 on 3-pointers in a 34-point second quarter, shot 68.8 percent in the third, and 57.9 percent in the fourth. Among several large runs, its best was a 15-0 spurt in the fourth quarter that pushed a 50-point lead to 65, 105-40.
Stanford’s 64-point margin of victory is tied for fifth best in program history and its 107 points are the most since scoring 108 against Cal Poly on Nov. 25, 2020.
The Cardinal had 25 assists against just six turnovers.
Stanford returns to action on Thursday night when it hosts former Pac-12 foe Washington State at 7 p.m.