STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford senior Cameron Brink is one of five finalists for the 2024 Lisa Leslie Award, which recognizes the top center in women's college basketball.
Iriafen is joined on the list of finalists by Mackenzie Holmes (Indiana), Raegan Beers (Oregon State), Kamilla Cardoso (South Carolina) and Elizabeth Kitley (Virginia Tech). The winner of the 2024 Lisa Leslie Award will be revealed on a to-be-determined date, along with the other four members of the Women's Starting Five.
Fans can support Brink by participating in Fan Voting, presented by Dell Technologies, starting Friday, March 8, on hoophallawards.com. The Fan Vote will count as one committee vote during the finalist selection process. Later this month, the finalists will be presented to Leslie and the Hall of Fame's selection committee. The Selection Committee for the Lisa Leslie Award is composed of top women's college basketball personnel, including media members, head coaches, sports information directors, and Hall of Famers.
Voted by the league's head coaches as both the Pac-12 Player and Defensive Player of the Year, Brink is Stanford's 20th Pac-12 Player of the Year all-time, a total which is more than the rest of the league combined. She is the Cardinal's eighth Defensive Player of the Year winner since the award began in 2008 and the second in conference history to win it in three consecutive seasons, joining Chiney Ogwumike (2012-14). Brink is only the third in Pac-12 history to sweep the league's Player and Defensive Player of the Year awards, along with Ogwumike (2013, 2014) and Arizona's Aari McDonald (2021).
On Monday, Brink won her fifth Pac-12 Player of the Week honor of the season following a weekend in which she averaged 21.5 points and 20.5 rebounds in a pair of road victories over No. 11 Oregon State and Oregon. Her 12 career weekly honors will go down as the second most all-time, trailing only Chiney Ogwumike's 18. 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.
Per College Basketball Reference, Brink is in the midst of the most efficient season by a major conference player in available records dating back to 2002-03. She currently leads the nation with a PER of 49.26. Only one player has ever been better, Elena Delle Donne with Delaware in 2011-12 (56.58) and 2012-13 (53.60). She is first nationally in blocks per game (3.48) and fifth in rebounds per game (12.0), does all her damage in a mere 25.0 minutes per game, and is the only the second player in Pac-12 history with 500 points (517), 300 rebounds (349) and 100 blocks (101) in a season (Stefanie Kasperski – Oregon – 1988-89).