Stanford Women’s Basketball to Face UNLV in las Vegas
LAS VEGAS – The Stanford Cardinal women’s basketball team will face the UNLV Lady Rebels in Las Vegas during the 2025-26 season, marking a return to competition after a season that saw the program miss the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 36 years.
The 2024-25 season represented a period of transition for Stanford,which competed in a new league for the first time as the 1985-86 season and participated in the WBIT after being ranked 49th in the NET rankings ahead of Selection sunday. Despite a 16-15 overall record – the program’s fewest wins since 1986-87 – Stanford extended its streak of consecutive winning seasons to 38, the fifth-longest active streak in the country.
The Cardinal’s coaching staff features a strong connection to the program’s past, including WNBA veteran Erica McCall, who has returned to her alma mater as an intern for the 2025-26 season while rehabbing from a left foot injury. McCall is one of five Stanford alumnae and WNBA veterans on staff, joining Kate Paye, Katy Steding, and Jeanette Pohlen.
McCall played in 121 career WNBA games across seven seasons, averaging 5.3 points and 2.0 rebounds, and shot 41.1 percent from the field and 39.2 percent from deep. As a senior at Stanford in 2017, she led the Cardinal to the Final Four, averaging career highs of 12.4 points, 3.4 rebounds, and 2.7 assists while shooting .482 from the field and .485 from three-point range.
Stanford boasts a remarkable athletic legacy, having won at least one NCAA team title in each of the past 49 years and leading the NCAA with 137 team titles overall.The university secured two national team championships during the 2024-25 campaign in women’s water polo and women’s rowing, bringing its total to 173. Stanford is one of six programs with national championships in football, baseball, and men’s basketball, and the only school with championships in football, baseball, men’s and women’s basketball. The Cardinal has also won 26 of the 31 total Directors’ Cups, most recently in 2022-23.
