PAC-12 CONFERENCE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

March 5, 2021

Cameron Brink

Stanford Cardinal

Postgame Press Conference

Stanford - 79, Oregon State - 45

Q. Freshman year, conference tournament in a major conference, and you put on a performance like that. 24, 11, four blocks, only one foul. So where is your confidence level to have a game of this magnitude at such a young age?

CAMERON BRINK: My teammates keep reassuring me. They keep my confidence level so high. It's fun playing with everyone. Just blessed to be here.

Q. After the first quarter, it was tied 13-13, Oregon State hits a quick 3 and you just took over. Did something just click for you to sort of go off? It wasn't just the points you had. I think it was 11 points in a 20-5 run or a 20-3 run. But from rebounds to blocks, to physical play. Just something trigger in your head and you just took over the game on your own with such poise on top of that.

CAMERON BRINK: I don't know. I just had fun with it and my teammates found me really well. Ki had some great passes to me, Lacie, everyone. I just felled off my teammates' energy. And it was fun.

Q. The pace at which with you guys played tonight. This is their third game in three days, wearing them down in transition obviously was part of the game plan. But when you guys play at that pace, with you coming in as a freshman, how long did it take you to push that kind of pace?

CAMERON BRINK: Honestly, it took me a while. It's such a change from high school to college and everything. So it took me a while to adjust, but I'm still adjusting to it. But today I feel like I did okay. So, yeah.

Q. I think of all the numbers that you put together today that maybe the one that Tara likes the most is the one personal foul keeping you on the court. Can you talk to us a little bit about that process for you of dealing with foul calls that were not all earned, to be fair, in the past, and maybe adjusting your game as a result?

CAMERON BRINK: It's taken a lot of mental work. It's an adjustment to be able to play smart and not get frustrated. So thankful for my coaches for teaching me how to do that. And tonight it was hard because Taylor Jones is such a good post. But my teammates really helped me and doubled in. So, yeah, it wasn't on me. But I'm thinking slowly getting better at it.

Q. For you, where do you feel like you've improved the most over the course of your freshman season, I know you touched on the speed of the game slowing down, but for you where do you think the biggest growth has been in your game over the course of the last three, four months?

CAMERON BRINK: Honestly, I feel like I've improved in a lot of ways but probably just my mentality. Not getting frustrated with foul calls and pushing through the pace and the physicality.

But I feel like the coaches have helped me improve in pretty much every aspect. So, yeah.