One Away

No. 8 Stanford (19-3, 9-1)
vs. USC (12-9, 3-7)
Friday, Feb. 3 • 6 p.m.
Maples Pavilion • Stanford, Calif.
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THE GAME

Tara VanDerveer goes for career win No. 1,000 when No. 8 Stanford (19-3, 9-1) hosts USC (12-9, 3-7) on Friday, Feb. 3 at 6 p.m. Kate Scott, Ros Gold-Onwude and Jill Savage have the call on Pac-12 Network, Pac-12 Bay Area and Pac-12 Los Angeles.

THE RUNDOWNTara VanDerveer owns a 999-228 record and is one victory away from joining Pat Summitt as the only NCAA women's basketball coaches with 1,000 wins ... Of her 999 career wins, 428 have come in Maples, 462 have come against Pac-12 opponents and 78 have come in the NCAA Tournament ... Through her first 37 seasons, she averaged 26.5 wins and 6.1 losses per year ... Stanford has the second most conference wins of any team this millennium (278) ... Stanford is 145-9 (.942) at home the last 10 years ... Since 2007-08, the Cardinal owns a conference home record of 80-5 ... The Cardinal is one of five teams in the country in the top 15 in both field goal percentage and field goal percentage defense ... The Cardinal is 19-0 this season and has won its last 26 in a row when it shoots better than 40 percent ... Stanford shot 30 percent on 3-pointers in its first 11 games, but has made 41 percent in its last 11 ... Erica McCall has 26 double-doubles in her last 56 games ... She is 30th in school history in points (1,179), ninth in rebounds (816) and fourth in blocks (171) ... Karlie Samuelson is fourth among active players in career 3-point field goal percentage (.436) and sixth in school history in 3-point makes (207) ... She is third nationally in 3-point field goal percentage this season (.486) ... Brittany McPhee's 6.7 per game scoring increase over last season is the second-best in the Pac-12.

VS. USCStanford is 56-20 all-time against USC dating back to Feb. 2, 1979, 28-6 against the Trojans at home and has won 17 of the teams' last 18 meetings. The Cardinal has won its last 14 games against USC in Maples Pavilion. The Trojans' last win on The Farm came on March 1, 2001 (62-59). Last season, Karlie Samuelson scored 14 points, Erica McCall added a double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds and Kaylee Johnson had 13 boards to lead Stanford to a 57-47 win at USC. McCall had five blocks, Johnson three and the Cardinal tied the single-game school record with 13 total rejections.

#TARA1K• In her 31st season on the bench at Stanford, Hall of Famer Tara VanDerveer has accumulated a 999-228 record in her 37+ years as a collegiate head coach and an 847-177 mark on The Farm.
• Her teams have won 20 or more games 31 times, including each of the last 15 seasons. VanDerveer has coached a team to 30 wins 13 times.
• In November 2013, VanDerveer became just the fifth college women's basketball coach to win 900 career games and is one victory 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 (1,060) and Herb Magee at Philadelphia University (1,046) on the men's side are the only college basketball coaches with 1,000 wins.
• Of her 999 career wins, 428 have come in Maples, 462 have come against Pac-12 opponents, 78 have come in the NCAA Tournament and 165 have come against ranked teams (ranking records since 1981).
• Through her first 37 seasons, VanDerveer averaged 26.5 victories and just 6.1 losses per year.
• She's had one losing season, her first at Stanford when the team went 13-15 in 1985-86 after going 9-19 the year before.
• VanDerveer has been a four-time national coach of the year (1988, 1989, 1990, 2011), 14-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year and two-time Big Ten Coach of the Year.
• She has led her Stanford teams to two NCAA Championships (1990, 1992), 11 NCAA Final Four appearances, 22 Pac-12 regular-season titles, 11 Pac-12 Tournament crowns and 28 trips to the NCAA Tournament. She also guided Idaho to one AIAW Tournament appearance and Ohio State to a pair of NCAA Tournaments.
• Overall, VanDerveer has coaches her players to two Wade Trophy Player of the Year honors, two Naismith Player of the Year honors, 30 first-team All-America honors (WBCA and Associated Press), 18 Pac-12 Player of the Year awards, 67 first team All-Pac-12 selections and nearly 40 appointments to USA Basketball teams.
CATCHING YOU UP• Briana Roberson scored all 14 of her points in the second half and the Cardinal erased an 18-point deficit to beat No. 7 Washington 72-68 in front of a sellout crowd of 10,000 in Seattle on Sunday night.

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• The comeback was Stanford's largest since it won at USC 64-59 on Feb. 21, 2014 after being down 19.
• Stanford moved to 61-0 all-time against Washington State in beating the Cougars 76-54 on Jan. 27.
• Erica McCall scored 18 points, Stanford held Arizona State under 30 percent shooting and the Cardinal ended the Sun Devils' two-game winning streak in Maples Pavilion with a 66-56 win on Jan. 22.
• Karlie Samuelson made her 200th career 3-pointer, Stanford hung 28 first-quarter points on Arizona and the Cardinal beat the Wildcats 73-46 on Jan. 20.
• Samuelson and Brittany McPhee combined for 38 points, including 25 on a perfect 9-for-9 shooting in the third quarter, and Stanford won at Colorado 84-70 on Jan. 15.
• Up eight after three quarters, Stanford used a 27-point fourth to put away Utah 77-58 in Salt Lake City on Jan. 13.
• No. 16 Oregon State outlasted Stanford in the Cardinal's first double-overtime game in nine seasons on Jan. 8 72-69 in a game that featured 10 ties and 11 lead changes.
• It was the Cardinal's third double-overtime game in program history. Stanford lost at home to San Francisco 79-78 on Feb. 24, 1981 and beat Utah on the road 81-77 on Nov. 18, 2007.
• 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 Jan. 6.
• Stanford opened conference play with its first sweep in the desert since 2014, winning at No. 18 Arizona State 64-57 and Arizona 77-55.
SETTING THE STAGE• Stanford is 145-9 (.942) at home the last 10 years and one of 10 schools to have more than 140 home wins during that span.
• Its .942 home winning percentage since 2007-08 is third behind Connecticut (.971) and Baylor (.962).
• The Cardinal, 6-0 away from Maples Pavilion in conference games, is the only Pac-12 school without a road loss in league play.
• Since 2007-08, the Cardinal owns a conference road record of 77-10 and a Pac-12 home record of 80-5.
• Stanford has the second most conference wins of any team this millennium with 278. Only Chattanooga has more (283). Connecticut is third (272), Green Bay fourth (267) and Liberty fifth (242).
• The Cardinal's all-time Pac-12 record is 480-70 (.873), more than 150 wins clear of the next closest team (Washington - 328).
• The Cardinal's 71-52 victory at George Washington on Dec. 21 was its 300th since 2007-08. Now at 310 only Connecticut (354) and Baylor (311) have more the past 10 years.
• Stanford is 14th in the nation in field goal percentage (.469), seventh in field goal percentage defense (.339), 22nd in scoring defense (56.3), 34th in scoring offense (75.1) and 11th in scoring margin (+18.8).
• The Cardinal is one of five teams in the country in the top 15 in both field goal percentage and field goal percentage defense along with Baylor, Duke, Connecticut and Central Arkansas.
• The Cardinal is 19-0 this season and won its last 26 in a row when shooting better than 40 percent from the field.
• Stanford is third in the nation in field goal percentage defense the past 10 years, holding its 353 opponents to 34.4 percent shooting (7,356-of-21,355).
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 24 times, going 16-8.
• Stanford is 67-31 (.684) against AP ranked opponents since 2007-08, fifth in the country in such wins over that span and fourth in percentage.
• Connecticut (.903), Baylor (.762), Notre Dame (.714), Stanford (.684), Tennessee (.617), Duke (.549), Maryland (.543) and Texas A&M (.518) have winning records against ranked teams the past decade.
AMONG THE BEST EVER• With a 1,023-315 overall record, the Cardinal is the seventh-winningest program in women's college basketball history. Tennessee (1,313), Louisiana Tech (1,083), Connecticut (1,066), James Madison (1,059), Texas (1,028) and Old Dominion (1,024) are the only schools with more victories.
• The Cardinal's .765 winning percentage is fourth all-time in Division I, trailing Tennessee (.811), Connecticut (.783) and Louisiana Tech (.780).
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 improved those numbers since, making 71.4 percent of its free throws (142-of-199) and 40.9 percent of its 3-pointers (81-of-198) in its last 11 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 1,338 games all-time (4.8 percent).
BIRD SOARING• Since the start of her junior year, Erica McCall is averaging 15.3 points on 50.4 percent shooting and 9.0 rebounds, one of just four players in the country with those numbers since the beginning of the 2015-16 season (Emily Potter - Utah; Kristine Anigwe - Cal; Brionna Jones - Maryland).
• McCall, on watch lists for the Naismith Trophy, Wade Trophy, Wooden Award and Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, became Stanford's 37th 1,000-point scorer at George Washington on Dec. 21. She is currently 30th in program history with 1,179. Next up is Maggie Nelson (1,180).

• Her 171 career blocks are fourth at Stanford. Jayne Appel (278), Chiney Ogwumike (202) and Val Whiting (201) own the top three spots in program history. She is also ninth in school history with 816 career rebounds.
• McCall's 28 career double-doubles are tied for 16th among active NCAA players and she's had 26 in her last 56 games, 11th in the country over that span.
• In 10 Pac-12 games McCall is averaging 15.0 points 8.4 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game, one of 13 players in the nation averaging those numbers in conference. The list also includes Cal's Kristine Anigwe and UCLA's Monique Billings from the Pac-12 (minimum seven games played).
TAKE AIM• Karlie Samuelson is fourth in career 3-point field goal percentage (.436) among active NCAA players and with 207 3-pointers made is sixth in Stanford history.
• She is averaging 13.7 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.4 assists while shooting 53.2 percent from the field and 52.9 percent from deep in nine league games. Samuelson is the only player in the country averaging 13/5/3 while shooting over 53 percent from the floor and 52 percent on 3-pointers in conference.

• Her career 3-point percentage would be second in program history to Jennifer 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 444 of Stanford's 1,250 3-pointers during that time, or 35.5 percent.
• Karlie Samuelson, Oregon's Lexi Bando (.468; 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 43 games, Samuelson is 106-of-211 on 3-pointers (.502). She is currently third in the country in percentage from behind the arc this season (.486).
• 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 70 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 95-of-194 (.490) on two-point shots.
• Against Arizona on Jan. 20, Samuelson became the eighth Stanford player to make 200 3-pointers in a career, joining Candice Wiggins, Jeanette Pohlen, Bonnie Samuelson, Vanessa Nygaard, Kelley Suminski, Sebnem Kimyacioglu and Nicole Powell.
McPHIRE• Junior Brittany McPhee is tied for 14th in the Pac-12 averaging 13.2 points per game.
• McPhee, who averaged 6.5 points per game as a sophomore, has increased her average output by 6.7 points, more than all but one other player in the Pac-12.

Pac-12 Per Game Scoring Improvement

• She is one of five players in the conference who have upped their scoring output by at least six points from a year ago - Breanna Brown, Oregon State (+6.8); Kennedy Burke, UCLA (+6.4); Marie Gulich, Oregon State (+6.4); Kennedy Leonard, Colorado (+6.2).
• McPhee is the 15th-best shooting guard among Power 5 conference players in the country with a field goal percentage of .474. She is shooting 26.3 percent on threes (15-57) and 54.3 percent from inside the arc (95-175).
• Fourteen of her 24 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).
DISHIN'• Marta Sniezek, who has handed out five or more assists in 19 of her 57 career appearances, is averaging 4.3 assists per game this season.
• In the last 20 years, only Nicole Powell, Milena Flores, Jeanette Pohlen and Amber Orrange have averaged more assists for Stanford over the course of a season. Powell averaged 6.3 in 2001-02 and 4.7 in 2000-01. Flores averaged 7.3 in 1998-99, 6.1 in 1997-98 and 5.9 in 1999-00, Pohlen averaged 4.8 in 2010-11 and 4.5 in 2009-10 and Orrange averaged 4.5 in 2013-14.
IN THE POLLS• Stanford is No. 8 in the AP top 25 and No. 9 in the USA TODAY Coaches Poll.
• It has been ranked 508 times out of 723 total AP polls since 1977 (70.3 percent), with an average positioning of 7.1. It's been in the past 299, the second-longest active streak behind Connecticut (443). Stanford has been in 307 consecutive coaches polls.
• The Cardinal's No. 8 AP ranking is its highest since checking in at No. 7 on Dec. 15, 2014.
• Stanford is also eighth in the NCAA RPI and has played the nation's 15th-toughest schedule.
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), 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 FIBA U17 World Championships in Spain and the FIBA Americas U18 Championships in Valdivia, Chile.
• Dodson and Williams are both on the midseason watch list for the 2017 Naismith Trophy High School Girls' Player of the Year and were selected to participate in the 16th annual McDonald's All American Game on March 29 in Chicago.
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.