THE GAME: Stanford plays its first ranked opponent at home when it hosts No. 21 NC State on Sunday, Jan. 12 at noon. Beth Mowins and Debbie Antonelli have the call on ESPN, while Tim Swartz will handle the radio broadcast on GoStanford.com, the Stanford Athletics app and Learfield’s Varsity Network.
THE RUNDOWN: Stanford is third in the nation in 3-point percentage (.392) … Eleven players have hit a 3-pointer, and there are two who have made at least 30 – Brooke Demetre (31), Elena Bosgana (30) … One game after hitting a school-record 18 3-pointers against Le Moyne, the Cardinal went 14-of-20 (.700) in a win over Washington State and knocked down 13 against Gonzaga on Nov. 10 … Nunu Agara is one of three underclassmen in the country averaging 17.0 points, 8.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists (17.5/8.0/2.2), and one of four players in the top 10 of the ACC in both scoring and rebounding … Against Florida State, Elena Bosgana became the second DI player this season with 21 points, 15 rebounds and six assists in a game (Yvonne Ejim – Gonzaga) … Heading into 2024-25, Stanford was looking to replace 59.8 percent of its scoring and 54.4 percent of its rebounding … The Cardinal’s leading returning scorer was Bosgana (6.7) and its leading returning rebounder was Demetre (3.6) … Stanford’s young squad has just one returner that has averaged more than 20 minutes per game in her career (Talana Lepolo) … Stanford was picked seventh in the ACC preseason poll and outside the preseason AP Top 25 for the first time since 1999-2000 … Stanford’s 2025 recruiting class, featuring three five stars, is ranked No. 3 by espnW HoopGurlz.
VS. NC STATE: The Cardinal is 2-2 all-time against NC State, its last win coming on Dec. 3, 1994 in Raleigh, 78-63. After that contest, the two wouldn’t meet for 30 years until No. 3 seed NC State knocked out No. 2 seed Stanford in last year’s Sweet 16 in Portland on March 29, 77-67, in what was ultimately Tara VanDerveer’s last game as head coach. The Wolfpack got their other win in the series at home on Dec. 21, 1988, 80-72, and Stanford won the teams’ only other meeting in Maples Pavilion, 69-59, on Dec. 19, 1987.
WHERE WE STAND »
- Stanford snapped an uncharacteristic three-game losing streak with Thursday night’s 89-84 win over visiting Florida State, the Cardinal’s first in the ACC.
- The three game losing streak (Ohio State, SMU, Clemson) was the Cardinal’s first within the same season since January 2001…
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