By Daniel Dullum
Sports Radio Service
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Chasson Randle got it done in overtime Sunday, scoring seven of his 17 points in the extra period as Stanford slipped past Southern California 79-71 in Pac-12 men’s basketball at Galen Center in Los Angeles.

Road victories have been hard to come by for Stanford when it makes its annual LA road swing. This win was just the second in the Cardinal’s last 18 road games against UCLA and USC (0-9 against the Bruins and 2-7 against the Trojans since 2006). Last season, Southern California swept the series against the Cardinal by a total of three points.

Josh Huestis and Dwight Powell added 16 and 14 points, respectively, for Stanford (13-6 overall, 4-3 Pac-12). Anthony Brown pulled down eight of the Cardinal’s 38 rebounds while accumulating six assists and scoring 11 points.

Byron Wesley topped USC (10-10 overall, 1-6 Pac-12) with 18 points, followed by J.T. Terrell and Pe’Shon Howard with 13 points each and Strahinja Gavrilovic with a career-high 12.

The game was tied at 61-61 at the end of regulation. Stanford took a 61-56 lead when Huestis canned a 3-pointer with 1:30 left in the second half. USC responded with a five-point run on a 3-pointer by Howard and two foul shots by Wesley in a 12-second span in the last 33 seconds.

Stanford had one more possession, but an unforced turnover by Brown forced overtime.

Stanford surged ahead for good by scoring the first four points of overtime – a free throw by Brown and a Randle 3-pointer. Cardinal reserve John Gage scored the next four points, making it 71-64 with 2:26, effectively putting the game out of reach.

This week, Stanford hosts Arizona on Wednesday and Arizona State on Saturday.

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