STANFORD, Calif. - With the regular season set to begin in just under three weeks, the Stanford women's basketball program will host its annual Cardinal & White Scrimmage on Saturday, Oct. 25 in Maples Pavilion. The doors to Maples will open at 9:45 a.m. and the scrimmage is slated to begin at 10 a.m. Admission is free.
Fans attending should enter through the northwest doors of Maples Pavilion. Stanford Athletics' Clear Bag Policy will be in effect. Open loge seating will be available throughout the venue.
On Tuesday, the Cardinal was picked to finish sixth in the ACC in a vote of the league's 18 head coaches and Blue Ribbon Panel. Nunu Agara was named Preseason All-ACC and Hailee Swain and Lara Somfai landed on the six-person Preseason All-Freshman Team.
Stanford is near the top of the ACC in returning production, welcoming back 54.2 percent of its scoring (1,221 of 2,255 points), 49.7 percent of its rebounding (583 of 1,172 rebounds), 57.4 percent of its assists (251 of 437 assists) and 56.9 percent of its minutes played (3,585 of 6,300 minutes) from a season ago. The Cardinal is third in the ACC in returning points (Duke - 67.7%, Virginia 61.6%, Virginia Tech 54.7%), second in returning rebounds (Duke - 64.1%), third in returning assists (Virginia - 70.7%, Virginia Tech - 68.5%, Duke - 63.0%), and third in returning minutes (Duke - 68.1%, Virginia Tech - 57.6%).
The Cardinal only has one transfer on its roster in junior Mary Ashley Stevenson, who is in her second year on The Farm after playing one season at Purdue. Stanford has the fewest transfers on its roster among all 68 Power 4 programs. NC State, Washington and Oklahoma each have two. Among Power 4 schools, Stanford and Washington tied for the least amount of portal movement this offseason (total number of transfers in + transfers out).
In addition to Stanford's returning core, the team added the nation's No. 3 recruiting class according to espnW HoopGurlz. Kate Paye’s first signing class as head coach includes three five-star talents (Swain, Somfai, Alexandra Eschmeyer) and two four-stars (Nora Ezike, Carly Amborn) according to espnW HoopGurlz, and four ranked in that publication’s top 100. Stanford’s three five-star signees tied for the national lead with Tennessee and LSU and the program’s most since it had four in the Class of 2019 (Haley Jones, Ashten Prechtel, Fran Belibi, Hannah Jump). Of the 24 women selected to be McDonald’s All Americans, Stanford (Eschmeyer, Somfai, Swain) and Tennessee had the most players suiting up next fall with three commits each. Stanford’s three McDonald’s All Americans were almost as many as the rest of the ACC combined (4).
Season tickets, flex plans, group tickets, and nonconference single-game seats are now on sale for Stanford’s 2025-26 season. Fans can explore availability by clicking here or by contacting the Stanford Athletics ticket office at 800-STANFORD or athleticstickets@stanford.edu. Single-game tickets for the Cardinal’s ACC home games will go on sale Tuesday, October 21.