For First Place

No. 10 Stanford (13-2, 3-0)
vs. No. 16 Oregon State (14-1, 3-0)
Sunday, Jan. 8 • 5 p.m.
Maples Pavilion • Stanford, Calif.
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THE GAMEThe Pac-12's two remaining unbeatens meet when No. 10 Stanford (13-2, 3-0) hosts No. 16 Oregon State (14-1, 3-0) on Sunday, Jan. 8 at 5 p.m. Krista Blunk, Tammy Blackburn and Kyndra de St. Aubin have the call on Pac-12 Network, Pac-12 Bay Area and Pac-12 Oregon.

THE RUNDOWNStanford has started 3-0 in 21 of the 31 years of Pac-12 women's basketball ... The Cardinal has won its last seven conference games dating back to last season, the longest active streak in the Pac-12 ... Tara VanDerveer has accumulated a 993-227 career record and is seven victories away from joining Pat Summitt as the only NCAA women's basketball coaches with 1,000 wins ... Stanford has the second most conference wins of any team this millennium with 272 ... Stanford is 143-8 (.947) at home the last 10 years ... Since 2007-08, the Cardinal owns a conference home record of 78-4 ... The Cardinal is one of four teams in the country in the top 15 in both field goal percentage and field goal percentage defense ... The Cardinal is 13-0 this year when it shoots better than 40 percent ... Brittany McPhee's 7.1 per game scoring increase over last season is the best in the league ... Erica McCall has 25 double-doubles in her last 49 games, fifth in the country since the start of 2015-16 ... She became Stanford's 37th 1,000-point scorer in its win at George Washington on Dec. 21 ... Karlie Samuelson is second among active players in career 3-point field goal percentage (.428) and 10th in school history in 3-point makes (188) ... Nadia Fingall is third in the Pac-12 in field goal percentage (.627) ... Stanford signed the nation's fifth-ranked recruiting class on Nov. 9, including three top-50 recruits.

VS. OREGON STATEStanford is 54-7 all-time against Oregon State dating back to Feb. 14, 1981, 29-0 against the Beavers at home and has won 30 of the last 31 in the series. Sunday will mark the seventh meeting with both schools ranked in the AP top 25. In the last meeting in Maples, Stanford shot a season-best 57.7 percent and logged the 1,000th win in program history with a 76-54 victory over then-No. 7 OSU on Feb. 26, 2016. The Cardinal led by as many as 15 on Jan. 17, 2016 in Corvallis, but OSU closed the game on a 23-4 run to come away with a 58-50 victory.

CATCHING YOU UP• The Cardinal has now started 3-0 in 21 of the 31 years of Pac-12 women's basketball.
• Alanna Smith scored a career-high 24 points in 20 minutes off the bench, including 14 in the fourth quarter, and Stanford beat Oregon 81-60 on Friday.
• Briana Roberson added 15 and Erica McCall 14. Karlie Samuelson handed out a career-high six assists and Marta Sniezek grabbed a career-high eight rebounds to go along with nine points and five assists.
• Stanford opened conference play last weekend with its first sweep in the desert since 2014, winning at No. 18 Arizona State 64-57 and Arizona 77-55.
• The win in Tempe was Stanford's first over a ranked team on the road since Feb. 26, 2015 at No. 7 Oregon State.
• Since 2007-08, the Cardinal owns a conference road record of 73-10 and a Pac-12 home record of 78-4.
• Stanford has the second most conference wins of any team this millennium with 272. Only Chattanooga has more (278). Connecticut is third (266), Green Bay fourth (260) and Liberty fifth (237).
• The Cardinal's all-time Pac-12 record is 474-69 (.873), more than 150 wins clear of the next closest team (Washington - 322).
• Stanford has won its last seven conference games, the longest active streak in the league. Oregon State has won four in a row.
SETTING THE STAGE• Stanford is 143-8 (.947) at home the last 10 years and one of nine schools to have more than 140 home wins during that span along with Baylor (171), Connecticut (167), Maryland (152), Ohio State (150), Notre Dame (144), North Carolina (142), Tennessee (142) and Green Bay (140).
• Its .947 home winning percentage since 2007-08 is third behind Connecticut (.971) and Baylor (.961).
• The Cardinal's 71-52 victory at George Washington on Dec. 21 was its 300th since 2007-08. Now at 304 only Connecticut (348) has more the past 10 years.
• Stanford is 10th in the nation in field goal percentage (.477), 15th in field goal percentage defense (.339), 17th in scoring defense (54.3) and 13th in scoring margin (+21.4).
• The Cardinal is one of four teams in the country in the top 15 in both field goal percentage and field goal percentage defense along with Baylor, Duke and South Carolina.
• Stanford has shot better than 40 percent in nine consecutive conference games dating back to last season and held its opponent under 40 percent in eight straight.
• The Cardinal is 13-0 this year when shooting better than 40 percent from the field.
TARA IS SEVEN AWAY• Entering her 31st season on the bench at Stanford, Hall of Famer Tara VanDerveer has accumulated a 993-226 record in her 37+ years as a collegiate head coach and an 841-176 mark on The Farm. Her teams have won 20 or more games 31 times, including each of the last 15 seasons.
• In November 2013, VanDerveer became just the fifth college women's basketball coach to win 900 career games and is seven victories shy of joining Pat Summitt as the only NCAA women's basketball coaches with 1,000 career wins.

• Summitt (1,098) along with Mike Krzyzewski at Duke (1,056) and Herb Magee at Philadelphia University (1,040) on the men's side are the only college basketball coaches with 1,000 wins.
AGAINST RANKED• From 2000 to 2012, Stanford played 22 conference games against ranked opponents and went 16-6. In just the last five seasons, the Cardinal has played a ranked Pac-12 team 21 times, going 14-7.
• Stanford is 65-30 (.684) against AP ranked opponents since 2007-08, fifth in the country in such wins over that span and fourth in percentage.
• Only Connecticut (.902), Baylor (.756), Notre Dame (.709), Stanford (.684), Tennessee (.616), Duke (.560), Maryland (.543) and Texas A&M (.519) have winning records against ranked teams the past decade.
AMONG THE BEST EVER• With a 1,017-314 overall record, the Cardinal is tied as the seventh-winningest program in women's college basketball history with Stephen F. Austin. Tennessee (1,309), Louisiana Tech (1,079), Connecticut (1,060), James Madison (1,054), Texas (1,021) and Old Dominion (1,021) are the only schools with more victories.
• The Cardinal's .764 winning percentage is fourth all-time in Division I, trailing Tennessee (.812), Connecticut (.782) and Louisiana Tech (.781).
STEP UP IN SHOOTING• In the season's first 11 games, Stanford was shooting just 63.4 percent from the line (135-of-213) and 29.9 percent from behind the arc (56-of-187).
• The Cardinal has significantly improved those numbers since, making 76.2 percent of its free throws (48-of-63) and 47.1 percent of its 3-pointers (32-of-68) in its last four outings.
CENTURY MARK• Stanford's final nonconference game was a 102-44 rout of Yale on Dec. 28.
• It was the Cardinal's first time in triple digits since March 11, 2011 against Arizona and tied for the fifth largest margin of victory in program history.
• Stanford has scored 100 or more points 64 times in its 1,331 games all-time (4.8 percent).
McPHIRE• Junior Brittany McPhee, who missed Friday's game against Oregon with an ankle sprain, is 14th in the Pac-12 averaging 13.6 points per game.
• McPhee, who averaged 6.5 points per game as a sophomore, has increased her average output by 7.1 points, more than any player in the Pac-12.
• Entering the weekend, only seven other players in the conference have upped their scoring output by at least five points from a year ago - Marie Gulich, Oregon State (+6.8); Kennedy Leonard, Colorado (+6.4); Ivana Kmetovska, Washington State (+6.2); Kennedy Burke, UCLA (+6.1); Breanna Brown, Oregon State (+5.9); Chantel Osahor, Washington (+5.2); Alexys Swedlund, Washington State (+5.0).

• McPhee has scored 20+ four times, one of nine players in the Pac-12 to have at least four 20-point efforts along with Kristine Anigwe (Cal), Kelsey Plum (Washington), Kennedy Leonard (Colorado), Emily Potter (Utah), Ruthy Hebard (Oregon), LaBrittney Jones (Arizona), Jordin Canada (UCLA) and Kristen Simon (USC).
• Ten of her 20 career games scoring in double figures have come this season.
• The junior torched then-No. 8 Texas on Nov. 14 for a career-high 28 points on 11-of-15 shooting (.733) and followed that up with 22 points against Gonzaga her first back-to-back 20-point games.
• Her performance from the floor against the Longhorns was the most efficient for a Stanford guard against a ranked opponent with records dating back to 1999-00 (minimum 10 field goals made).
• Four-time All-American Candice Wiggins is second on that list, converting 55.6 percent in games against No. 16 Minnesota on Nov. 20, 2005 (10-of-18) and No. 23 UTEP on March 24, 2008 (15-of-27).
• Including McPhee, Stanford guards have made 10 field goals in a game against top-25 teams nine times since 1999-00. Wiggins has seven of them.
BIRD SOARING• Since the start of her junior year, Erica McCall is averaging 15.4 points on 50.6 percent shooting and 9.3 rebounds.
• Only five players in the country are averaging those numbers since the beginning of last season and three are in the Pac-12. Along with McCall, Cal's Kristine Anigwe, Utah's Emily Potter, Oklahoma State's Kaylee Jensen and Maryland's Brionna Jones own those averages since 2015-16.
• McCall, on watch lists for the Naismith Trophy, Wade Trophy and Wooden Award, became Stanford's 37th 1,000-point scorer at George Washington on Dec. 21. She is currently 34th in program history with 1,074. Next up is Joslyn Tinkle (1,091).

• Her 160 career blocks rank fifth at Stanford behind Jayne Appel (278), Chiney Ogwumike (202), Val Whiting (201) and Kristen Newlin (163).
• McCall's 27 career double-doubles are tied for 12th among active NCAA players and she's had 25 in her last 49 games.
• Only Alaina Coates of South Carolina (28), Nia Coffey (27) of Northwestern, Lexi Martins of George Washington (27) and Brionna Jones (27) of Maryland have had more since the start of 2015-16.
TAKE AIM• Karlie Samuelson is second in career 3-point field goal percentage (.428) among active NCAA players and with 188 3-pointers made is three shy of tying Jennifer Azzi for ninth in Stanford history.
• Her career 3-point percentage would be second in program history to Azzi (.452). Kelley Suminski is the only other Cardinal to make more than 40 percent of her 3-pointers in a career (minimum 150 3FGM). She converted 208-of-514 from 2002-05 (.405).
• Since older sister Bonnie arrived on campus as a freshman for the 2011-12 season, the Samuelson sisters have made 425 of Stanford's 1,193 3-pointers during that time, or 35.6 percent.

• Karlie Samuelson, Oregon's Lexi Bando (.462; 2015-17) and Cal's Kristin Iwanaga (.422; 2002-05) are the only Pac-12 players to shoot better than 42.0 percent from behind the arc for their career this millennium (minimum 100 3FGM).
• In her last 36 games, Samuelson is 87-of-175 on 3-pointers (.497). She is currently tied for 23rd in the country in percentage from behind the arc this season (.467).
• As a junior, Samuelson was 80-of-169 on 3-pointers in 2015-16 and checked in at third in the nation in 3-point field goal percentage (.473).
• More than 71 percent of her career attempts are from 3-point range and more than 80 percent of her points have come on 3-pointers and free throws. Samuelson is 89-of-179 (.497) on two-point shots.
FINGALL FINSHES• Nadia Fingall, who made her first career start against Yale on Dec. 28, is third in the Pac-12 in field goal percentage (.627).
• Among freshmen in the country with a minimum of 70 field goals attempted, her clip from the floor is third nationally behind Oregon's Ruthy Hebard (.695) and Ohio State's Tori McCoy (.637).
APPLYING PRESSURE• The Cardinal finished sixth nationally in field goal percentage defense (.338) and ninth in blocks per game (6.0) last year. Its field goal percentage defense was third in Stanford history and its 211 total blocks set a school record.
• The Cardinal is third in the nation in field goal percentage defense the past 10 years, holding its 343 opponents to 34.5 percent shooting (7,213-of-20,930).

FG% Defense Leaders (Since 2007-08)

IN THE POLLS• Stanford is No. 10 in the AP top 25 and No. 10 in the USA TODAY Coaches Poll.
• It has been ranked 504 times out of 719 total AP polls since 1977 (70.1 percent), with an average positioning of 7.1. It's been in the past 295, the second-longest active streak behind Connecticut (439). Stanford has been in 303 consecutive coaches polls.
• The Cardinal's 504 all-time appearances in the AP top 25 are fourth behind Tennessee (696), Georgia (522) and Texas (510).
CARDINAL FOURTUNE• On Nov. 9, the Cardinal announced the signings of Maya Dodson (Alpharetta, Ga./St. Francis), Alyssa Jerome (Toronto, Ontario, Canada/Harbord Collegiate), Estella Moschkau (Mount Horeb, Wisc./Edgewood) and Kiana Williams (San Antonio, Texas/Karen Wagner), a group collectively rated No. 5 by espnW HoopGurlz.

• Dodson is a five-star talent and the No. 11 prospect in the espnW HoopGurlz Top 100, Moschkau is a five-star prospect rated No. 44 and Williams is a five-star point guard and the No. 8 prospect overall.
• Williams is Stanford's first top-10 recruit since Chiney Ogwumike signed as the top player in the country in Nov. 2009.
• Jerome is a veteran of Canada Basketball and represented her country this summer at the both the aforementioned FIBA U17 World Championships in Spain and the FIBA Americas U18 Championships in Valdivia, Chile.
• Dodson and Williams were named to the 50-person Naismith Trophy High School Girl's Preseason watch list on Nov. 16.
FOREVER STANFORD• It was a big summer for Stanford alumnae, headlined by Nneka Ogwumike '12 winning the 2016 WNBA MVP award and hitting the game winner in Game 5 of the WNBA Finals with 3.1 seconds left to lift the Los Angeles Sparks to the championship.
• Ogwumike is Stanford women's basketball's seventh WNBA champion and the third Cardinal to win a league most valuable player award in any sport, joining NFL quarterbacks John Brodie (San Francisco 49ers; 1970) and John Elway (Denver Broncos; 1987).
• On Oct. 17, the 2012 Stanford graduate was voted president of the WNBA players' union executive council, a post she will hold for three years. She will serve alongside her sister Chiney '14, who will serve as the organization's vice president. Jayne Appel Marinelli, who retired this September after a seven-year WNBA career with the San Antonio Stars, will begin her post-playing days as the union's Associate Director of Player Relations.

• Sebnem Kimyacioglu '05, the fifth Stanford alumna to compete in the Olympics, helped Turkey advance to the quarterfinals in the country's second appearance in women's basketball at the Games.
• Kimyacioglu was one of 39 Stanford athletes to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The Cardinal contingent in Rio hailed from 10 countries and spanned 17 varsity sports. The 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games resulted in a school-record 27 medals, the most of any NCAA institution.