California (14-6, 6-3 Pac-12) – 25 • 39 = 64
Stanford (20-1, 9-0 Pac-12) – 43 • 27 = 70
• Stanford is now 61-18 all-time against California after Thursday night’s 70-64 win. Stanford improves to 20-1 overall and 9-0 in Pac-12 play. The Cardinal’s 9-0 start in conference play marks the 11th time out of 28 Pac-12 seasons that the Cardinal has opened the first half unbeaten. Stanford has also now won 19 games in a row.
• Stanford and California finished tied with 44 rebounds apiece, the second time this season Stanford has been matched by an opponent on the boards. The first time was Nov. 11 at Connecticut, when both teams finished with 42 rebounds.
• Chiney Ogwumike posted her 16th double-double of the season, finishing with 23 points and 12 rebounds.
• Stanford’s minus-12 margin against California in the second half (39-27) was the Cardinal’s worst second-half scoring margin this season. The previous low was minus-8 at Boston College (47-39) on Nov. 9.
• California’s 44 rebounds were the second-highest by a Cardinal opponent this season. The opponent high this year is 55 by Texas on Nov. 23.
• Stanford shot 42.2 percent (27-for-64) Thursday night, snapping a streak of four games in which the Cardinal shot at least 50.0 percent.
• Stanford’s Mikaela Ruef grabbed 12 rebounds in the game, marking her 11th double-figure rebounding game of the season.
• With 12 rebounds apiece from Chiney Ogwumike and Mikaela Ruef Thursday, it marked the seventh time this season that the pair has each grabbed double-digit rebounds in the same game.
• Freshman guard Lili Thompson passed out a season-high eight assists.
• The combined 43 points from California’s Brittany Boyd (25) and Afure Jemerigbe (18) Thursday night was the highest combined point total by two opposing teammates against the Cardinal this season. The previous best was 39 combined points from Colorado’s Jamee Swan (20) and Arielle Roberson (19) on Jan. 12 in Boulder.
• The 25 points by California’s Brittany Boyd marked the first time this season that an opposing player against Stanford was the game’s high scorer.
• Stanford grabbed 44 rebounds Thursday night, marking the 19th time out of 21 games this season that the Cardinal has grabbed at least 40 rebounds.
• Chiney Ogwumike’s 23 points increased her career scoring total to 2,335, 156 points behind older sister Nnemkadi Ogwumike (2,491) for second place on Stanford’s all-time scoring list.
• Ogwumike’s 12 rebounds Sunday brought her Pac-12-leading career rebounding total to 1,376.