2011-12 STANFORD BASKETBALL Women’s Basketball Contact: Aaron Juarez Email: [email protected] • Office Phone: (650) 725-7277 • Cell Phone: (408) 250-1598 2011-12 SCHEDULE AND RESULTS No. 2/2 Stanford (35-1) (35-1, 18-0 Pac-12) - vs. - DATE OPPONENT TIME/RESULT NOVEMBER..............(5-1) No. 1/1 Baylor (38-0) 11 (Fri.) at No. 24/20 Texas (LHN) W, 72-59 13 (Sun.) Gonzaga W, 76-61 17 (Thu.) Old Dominion W, 97-48 Game #37 21 (Mon.) at No. 2/4 Connecticut (ESPNU) L, 68-58 NCAA Final Four - National Semifinal 25 (Fri.) at Xavier W, 80-64 Sunday, April 1, 2012 • 6 p.m. PT 30 (Wed.) UC Davis W, 93-44 Pepsi Center (19,155) • Denver, Colo. DECEMBER..............(6-0, 2-0) 4 (Sun.) at Fresno State W, 93-59 Series History: Baylor leads 2-1 17 (Sat.) Princeton W, 85-66 Last Meeting: Nov. 16, 2008 (@Baylor 81, Stanford 65) 20 (Tue.) No. 6/6 Tennessee (CSNBA) W, 97-80 22 (Thu.) CSU Bakersfield W, 90-48 TV: ESPN (P-x-P: Dave O’Brien, Analyst: Doris Burke, Sideline: Rebecca Lobo, Holly Rowe) 29 (Thu.) at USC* W, 61-53 Webcast: ESPN3 (www.espn3.com) 31 (Sat.) at UCLA* W, 77-50 Radio: 90.1 KZSU (Sam Fisher) JANUARY.................(7-0, 7-0) 5 (Thu.) Oregon* W, 93-70 7 (Sat.) Oregon State* W, 67-60 Stanford Meets Undefeated Baylor In National Semifinal 12 (Thu.) at Utah* W, 62-43 It’s the matchup the nation has waited to see all year, as No. 1 seeds Stanford and Baylor, led by their 14 (Sat.) at Colorado* (ROOT) W, 80-54 19 (Thu.) Washington State* W, 75-41 national player of the year candidates Nnemkadi Ogwumike and Brittney Griner, respectively, meet 21 (Sat.) Washington* W, 65-47 at the Final Four Sunday at 6 p.m. PT at the Pepsi Center in Denver. The game will be televised live 28 (Sat.) California* W, 74-71 at 6 p.m. PT on ESPN and online at ESPN3.com with Dave O’Brien on the call, Doris Burke as analyst and Rebecca Lobo and Holly Rowe reporting from the sideline. The game will also be carried FEBRUARY...............(9-0, 8-0) over the airwaves on 90.1 KZSU with Sam Fisher on the call. 2 (Thu.) at Arizona State* (CSNBA) W, 62-49 4 (Sat.) at Arizona* W, 91-51 9 (Thu.) USC* (CSNC) W, 69-52 Last Time Out 12 (Sun.) UCLA* (CSNBA) W, 82-59 The Cardinal punched its ticket to its fifth straight Final Four, and 11th overall, with an 81-69 16 (Thu.) at Oregon State* W, 78-45 victory over No. 2 seed Duke Monday night in Fresno. Nnemkadi Ogwumike was named Fresno 18 (Sat.) at Oregon* W, 81-46 23 (Thu.) Colorado* W, 68-46 Regional Most Outstanding Player after scoring 29 points on 11-of-15 shooting with nine rebounds 25 (Sat.) Utah* W, 69-42 and three assists in the win, and averaged 34.0 points, 9.5 rebounds and shot 67.6 percent over the 29 (Wed.) Seattle University W, 76-52 weekend. Younger sister Chiney Ogwumike was named to the All-Regional Team after scoring 12 points with 17 rebounds against the Blue Devils, while junior forward Joslyn Tinkle and freshman MARCH....................(8-0, 1-0) point guard Amber Orrange added 13 points apiece in Monday’s win. 4 (Sun.) at California* (CSNBA) W, 86-61 8 (Thu.) vs. Washington (1) W, 76-57 9 (Fri.) vs. Arizona State (1) W, 52-43 10 (Sat.) vs. California (1) W, 77-62 PROJECTED STARTERS 17 (Sat.) vs. Hampton# (2) W, 73-51 No. Name Pos. Ht. Yr. Hometown PPG RPG 19 (Mon.) vs. West Virginia# (2) W, 72-55 13 Chiney Ogwumike F 6-3 So. Cypress, Texas 15.3 10.3 24 (Sat.) vs. No. 25/- South Carolina# (3) W, 76-60 26 (Mon.) vs. No. 6/6 Duke# (3) W, 81-69 30 Nnemkadi Ogwumike F 6-2 Sr. Cypress, Texas 22.5 10.3 31 Toni Kokenis G 5-11 So. Oak Brook, Ill. 9.5 3.2 APRIL....................(0-0) 33 Amber Orrange G 5-7 Fr. Houston, Texas 4.9 2.6 1 vs. No. 1/1 Baylor# (4) 6 p.m. 44 Joslyn Tinkle F 6-3 Jr. Missoula, Mont. 8.9 5.5 RESERVES Bold indicates home game at Maples Pavilion No. Name Pos. Ht. Yr. Hometown PPG RPG * - Pac-12 game 00 Alex Green G 5-9 Fr. Dallas, Texas 0.0 1.0 # - All NCAA Tournament games on ESPN/ESPN2 1 Grace Mashore G 5-8 Sr. Washington, D.C. 0.3 0.2 All Times Pacific 3 Mikaela Ruef F 6-3 Jr. Beavercreek, Ohio 0.0 2.3 opponent ranking from date of game 4 Taylor Greenfield F 6-3 Fr. Huxley, Iowa 3.6 1.9 15 Lindy La Rocque G 5-8 Sr. Las Vegas, Nev. 3.7 1.1 (1) Pac-12 Tournament (Los Angeles, Calif.) 21 Sara James G 5-10 So. El Dorado Hills, Calif. 1.5 1.1 (2) NCAA Tournament 1st/2nd Rounds (Norfolk, Va.) 23 Jasmine Camp G 5-7 Fr. Ellenwood, Ga. 3.6 2.0 (3) NCAA Tournament Regional (Fresno, Calif.) 25 Erica Payne F 6-2 Fr. Concord, Calif. 1.1 1.3 (4) NCAA Final Four (Denver, Colo.) 41 Bonnie Samuelson F 6-3 Fr. Huntington Beach, Calif. 4.6 1.2 42 Sarah Boothe F/C 6-5 R-Jr. Gurnee, Ill. 3.0 1.9 Date: March 29, 2012 Contact: Aaron Juarez The Setsuko Ishiyama Director of Women’s Basketball: E-mail: [email protected] Tara VanDerveer (Indiana, 1975) - 33rd season overall, 26th at Stanford Office Phone:650-725-7277 Associate Head Coach: Amy Tucker (Ohio State, 1982) - 27th season Office Fax:650-725-2957 Assistant Coaches: Kate Paye (Stanford, 1995) - 5th season Trina Patterson (Virginia, 1987) - 1st season The Setsuko Ishiyama Director of Women’s These Go To 11 Basketball This weekend’s trip to Denver marks the 11th Final Four trip in Stanford women’s basketball history, Tara VanDerveer moving the Cardinal into third place amongst all schools. Stanford’s 11 trips to the Final Four trails 33rd season, 26th at Stanford only Tennessee (18) and Connecticut (13). With this year being the Cardinal’s fifth straight Final Overall Record: 861-199 Four appearance (2008-12), it makes Stanford just the third different school to reach the event five Record at Stanford: 709-148 consecutive years, following Connecticut (twice - 2000-04, 2008-12) and LSU (2004-08). May 1985. The Stanford Cardinal had just wrapped Stanford In The NCAA Tournament up a 9-19 campaign while missing the postseason for Heading into Sunday’s national semifinal against Baylor, Stanford owns an all-time record of the third straight year. The rebuilding task would be 69-23 (.750) in the NCAA Tournament. The Cardinal has won a pair of national titles (1990, assigned to Tara VanDerveer, a then-rising star in the coaching ranks who had spent the previous five yeas 1992), advanced to the Final Four 11 times (third-most all-time), including the past five in a row. leading Ohio State to national prominence. Additionally, Stanford has reached 19 Sweet 16s and 16 Elite Eights. Fast forward to March 2012. Stanford now boasts Scouting Baylor two national championships, 24 straight NCAA Baylor (38-0) defeated Tennessee, 77-58, Monday night to punch its ticket into the Final Four. The Tournament appearances, 10 Final Fours and 21 Bears, making their third Final Four appearance (2005, 2010, 2012) and guided by head coach conference titles. Kim Mulkey, won the Big 12 regular season and tournament titles and are led by the play of All- Americans Brittney Griner (23.4 ppg, 9.4 rpg, 5.24 bpg) and Odyssey Sims (14.8 ppg, 4.39 apg). Once a program in need of a jump start, Stanford women’s basketball has become synonymous with success. And the credit goes to VanDerveer, who has All-Time Against Baylor established herself as one of the top coaches in the Stanford and Baylor have only met three times prior, with the Bears winning two of those meetings. history of women’s basketball. Baylor won the most recent meeting, defeating Stanford, 81-65 in Waco on Nov. 16, 2008. VanDerveer, enshrined into the Naismith Basketball Against The Big 12 In The NCAA Tournament Hall of Fame in August 2011, and inducted into the Stanford is 7-4 all-time against teams from the Big 12 in the NCAA Tournament. This record Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in April 2002, has includes NCAA Tournament games against Colorado, Missouri and Texas A&M, schools that were accumulated an impressive 861-199 (.812) record in her 32-plus years of collegiate coaching, becoming in the Big 12 at the time of the meeting with Stanford, but either are no longer in the conference just the fifth Division I coach to reach 800 career or will no longer be after the 2011-12 season. Sunday’s national semifinal will be the first NCAA wins on Dec. 22, 2010. Tournament meeting between the two schools. Stanford has reached the Final Four in each of the past four seasons, rolling up a combined record of 137-13 from 2007-11 and reaching the national title game in 2008 and 2010. Winning Streak Roll Call At Maples Pavilion - 79 Games Now in her 26th year at Stanford, she owns a 709- 148 (.827) record.