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Some stats I found interesting in the last two games:

Lepolo had a +/1 of -7 against Utah before she was injured in the middle of the 1st quarter.  Nivar finished with a +/- of +21, including a +/- of +9 in the portion of the 1st quarter she played after Lepolo went down. It's interesting that there was an immediate boost when she came on. Could have been a lot of factors other than Nivar playing, but Nivar was a much more highly-touted recruit. That's admittedly too small a sample size, but I'll be curious how that all plays out (both this year and in the future).  

Brink played 28 minutes and 29 minutes, respectively, against Utah and Colorado. Both far above her season average of 23.5 minutes (or last year's season average of 21.9 minutes). Her efficiency rating against Utah was a 36, second highest of her Stanford career (the highest being a 42 she had against Arizona in a home game last season).  She had an efficiency rating of only 13 against Colorado. Interestingly, Brink's lowest efficiency rating of this season (a measly 6) was also in a home game against Arizona. (Barnes must have made some nice adjustments to slow her down).

Since Brink fouled out vs Utah (a game where she had a 36 efficiency) but had only 2 fouls and 0 fouls, respectively, in her low efficiency games against Colorado and Arizona, I wondered what the relationship between foul trouble and efficiency has been for her.  It turns out she has had a higher efficiency this season (both total and per minute) in games where she has committed 4 or 5 fouls (though there are only 4 such games)

#Fouls Avg EFF (#Games) Avg Minutes / Eff per min
0 10.5 (2) 19 / 0.57
1 26.6 (5) 26 / 1.03
2 18.0 (4) 23 / 0.77
3 19.0 (6) 22 / 0.83
4 26.0 (2) 23 / 1.13
5 31.5 (2) 26 / 1.24 (other game she fouled out was vs South Carolina in overtime)

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Some stats I found interesting in the last two games:

Lepolo had a +/1 of -7 against Utah before she was injured in the middle of the 1st quarter.  Nivar finished with a +/- of +21, including a +/- of +9 in the portion of the 1st quarter she played after Lepolo went down. It's interesting that there was an immediate boost when she came on. Could have been a lot of factors other than Nivar playing, but Nivar was a much more highly-touted recruit. That's admittedly too small a sample size, but I'll be curious how that all plays out (both this year and in the future).  

Brink played 28 minutes and 29 minutes, respectively, against Utah and Colorado. Both far above her season average of 23.5 minutes (or last year's season average of 21.9 minutes). Her efficiency rating against Utah was a 36, second highest of her Stanford career (the highest being a 42 she had against Arizona in a home game last season).  She had an efficiency rating of only 13 against Colorado. Interestingly, Brink's lowest efficiency rating of this season (a measly 6) was also in a home game against Arizona. (Barnes must have made some nice adjustments to slow her down).

Since Brink fouled out vs Utah (a game where she had a 36 efficiency) but had only 2 fouls and 0 fouls, respectively, in her low efficiency games against Colorado and Arizona, I wondered what the relationship between foul trouble and efficiency has been for her.  It turns out she has had a higher efficiency this season (both total and per minute) in games where she has committed 4 or 5 fouls (though there are only 4 such games)

#Fouls Avg EFF (#Games) Avg Minutes / Eff per min
0 10.5 (2) 19 / 0.57
1 26.6 (5) 26 / 1.03
2 18.0 (4) 23 / 0.77
3 19.0 (6) 22 / 0.83
4 26.0 (2) 23 / 1.13
5 31.5 (2) 26 / 1.24 (other game she fouled out was vs South Carolina in overtime)