Three Obtain Preseason All-ACC Honors, Stanford Picked Sixth – Stanford Cardinal

STANFORD, Calif. – Nunu Agara, Hailee Swain and Lara Somfai have been acknowledged on Preseason All-ACC groups, and the Cardinal was picked to complete sixth within the league, the convention introduced Tuesday. The predicted order of end and preseason groups are voted on by the ACC’s 18 head coaches and Blue Ribbon Panel.

An All-ACC second group choice final season, Agara was voted to the 10-person Preseason All-ACC Team. She was Stanford’s main scorer (15.8 ppg) and rebounder (7.6 rpg) a season in the past and is the ACC’s third-leading returning scorer (Hannah Hidalgo – Notre Dame; Kymora Johnson – Virginia) and its second-lead­ing returning rebounder (Jessica Peterson – Miami). She scored in double figures in 21 video games, had six 20-point efforts and tied for eighth within the ACC with 9 double-doubles. Agara elevated her scoring common by 10.4 factors and her rebounding common by 4.7 boards over her freshman 12 months.

Swain and Somfai landed on the six-person Preseason All-Freshman Team and Stanford is the one faculty with a number of gamers on the listing. Both five-star skills, Swain was rated because the No. 8 participant within the nation within the Class of 2025 in keeping with ESPN HoopGurlz and Somfai was ranked 12^th. Among quite a few prep honors, the pair have been McDonald’s All-Americans, Jordan Brand Classic All-Americans and appeared on the Nike Hoop Summit – Swain for USA Basketball and Somfai on the World Roster.

Stanford totaled 1,041 factors from 70 voters to complete sixth within the predicted order of end. Duke topped the ballot with 1,525 factors and 40 first-place votes, NC State was second with 1,487 factors and 25 first-place votes, North Carolina was third with 1,374 factors and one first-place vote, Louisville was fourth with 1,276 factors and two first-place votes, and Notre Dame was fifth with 1,255 factors and the ultimate two first-place votes.

Stanford is close to the highest of the league in returning manufacturing, welcoming again 54.2 % of its scoring (1,221 of two,255 factors), 49.7 % of its rebounding (583 of 1,172 rebounds), 57.4 % of its assists (251 of 437 assists) and 56.9 % of its minutes performed (3,585 of 6,300 minutes) from a season in the past. The Cardinal is third within the ACC in returning factors (Duke – 67.7%, Virginia 61.6%, Virginia Tech 54.7%), second in returning rebounds (Duke – 64.1%), third in returning assists (Virginia – 70.7%, Virginia Tech – 68.5%, Duke – 63.0%), and third in returning minutes (Duke – 68.1%, Virginia Tech – 57.6%).

The Cardinal solely has one switch on its roster in junior Mary Ashley Stevenson, who’s in her second 12 months on The Farm after enjoying one season at Purdue. Stanford has the fewest transfers on its roster amongst all 68 Power 4 packages. NC State, Washington and Oklahoma every have two. Among Power 4 faculties, Stanford and Washington tied for the least quantity of portal motion this offseason (whole variety of transfers in + transfers out).

In addition to Stanford’s returning core, the group added the nation’s No. 3 recruiting class in keeping with es­pnW HoopGurlz. Kate Paye’s first signing class as head coach consists of three five-star skills (Swain, Somfai, Alexandra Eschmeyer) and two four-stars (Nora Ezike, Carly Amborn) in keeping with espnW Hoop­Gurlz, and 4 ranked in that publication’s prime 100. Stanford’s three five-star signees tied for the nationwide lead with Tennessee and LSU and this system’s most because it had 4 within the Class of 2019 (Haley Jones, Ashten Prechtel, Fran Belibi, Hannah Jump). Of the 24 girls chosen to be McDonald’s All Americans, Stanford (Eschmeyer, Somfai, Swain) and Ten­nessee had essentially the most gamers suiting up subsequent fall with three commits every. Stanford’s three McDonald’s All Americans have been nearly as many as the remainder of the ACC mixed (4).

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Preseason All-ACC Team (First-place votes – 70 voters)

Hannah Hidalgo, Jr., G, Notre Dame 833 (56 first-place votes)

Zoe Brooks, Jr., G, NC State 606 (3)

Kymora Johnson, Jr., G, Virginia 577 (1)

Toby Fournier, So., F, Duke 535 (4)

Ashlon Jackson, Sr., G, Duke 333 (1)

Tajianna Roberts, So., G, Louisville 326 (3)

Khamil Pierre, Sr., F, NC State 285

Reniya Kelly, Sr., G, North Carolina 276

Nunu Agara, Jr., F, Stanford 275

Laura Ziegler, Sr., F, Louisville 78

Preseason All-Freshman Team

Emilee Skinner, G, Duke 415

Hailee Swain, G, Stanford 324

Nyla Brooks, G, North Carolina 310

Lara Somfai, F, Stanford 185

Aliyahna “Puff” Morris, G, California 114

Leah Macy, F, Notre Dame 79

Predicted Order of Finish (70 voters)

1. Duke (40), 1525

2. NC State (25), 1487

3. North Carolina (1), 1374

4. Louisville (2), 1276

5. Notre Dame (2), 1255

6. Stanford, 1041

7. Virginia, 987

8. Miami, 889

9. Florida State, 857

10. Virginia Tech, 813

11. Clemson, 738

12. California, 669

13. Syracuse, 540

14. SMU, 483

15. Georgia Tech, 447

16. Pitt, 299

17. Boston College, 211

18. Wake Forest, 157