By Daniel Dullum
Sports Radio Service
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Chasson Randle’s 3-pointer with three seconds remaining in the second half gave Stanford a stunning 71-69 defeat of Washington in opening round play of the Pac-12 men’s basketball Tournament at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.

Jernard Jarreau hit a 3-pointer to put the Huskies up 69-64 with 3:25 to play, but Washington (16-15) was unable to score for the rest of the second half. Meanwhile, the Cardinal (19-12) finished with a 7-0 run – a tip in and layup by Stefan Nastic and Randle’s game-winning trey.

Dan Kingma was fouled with :29 remaining, but missed the front end of a one-and-one. Rosco Allen rebounded for the Cardinal, who maintained possession with two key offensive rebounds.

Nastic topped the Cardinal with 21 points, with Anthony Brown adding 16 and Reid Travis with 14 off the bench. Randle, Stanford’s top scorer this season, was held to 10 points.

Andrew Andrews scored a game-high 22 points to lead the Huskies.

The Cardinal dominated inside with a 36-10 edge in points in the paint, and a 35-26 rebounding edge.

The No. 7-seed Cardinal will face No. 3-seed Utah in the quarterfinals. Game time is set for 8:30 p.m.