By Morris Phillips

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Gabe York and Arizona, apparently channeling their inner Steph Curry, couldn’t miss from distance, canning 18 threes on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Rosco Allen and Stanford couldn’t shoot straight, missing 19 shot attempts from three-point range.

The outcome? Need you ask.

Stanford fell in their regular season finale, 94-62 at Arizona, just another reminder that the Cardinal’s offense—minus Reid Travis and others—isn’t where it needs to be, heading into the Pac-12 tournament and hopefully, the NIT. The Cardinal concluded the regular season with losses in seven of 11 games.

Defensively, Stanford wasn’t where it needs to be either as York canned a school-record tying nine 3-pointers and Arizona shot 55 percent after halftime on their way to an easy win on Senior Day in Tucson.

“We have to go back and look at the film and see areas that we need to improve on,” Coach Johnny Dawkins said. “Our defensive rebounds were not as good as they needed to be and we need to get better at defending at the 3-point line.”

Arizona will enter the Pac-12 tournament with a first-day bye while Stanford will be seeded ninth, with their eight-seeded opponent on March 9 to be determined after the outcome of this evening’s games. The Cardinal will enter the conference tournament looking to avoid a second straight season without an NCAA tournament appearance.

York’s record performance capped an about-face weekend for the Arizona senior, who had been criticized for taking and missing big shots late in the team’s recent road losses at Utah and Colorado. York almost single-handedly pulled out Arizona’s improbable win over Cal on Thursday by hitting three 3-pointers in the final 2:32 as the Wildcats overcame the Bears’ eight-point lead.

Then on Saturday, with his family in attendance and in front of a nationally televised audience, York hit 9 of 14 from distance as the sold-out McKale Center howled its approval. Had coach Sean Miller been informed, he would have kept York in the ballgame to attempt to break the school record for made threes, established in 2005 by Salim Stoudamire.

But as soon as York departed, senior walk-on Jacob Hazzard took over, hitting three 3’s in the game’s final seven minutes. Hazzard’s unexpected contributions allowed Arizona to set the new school record for made threes in a game at 18.

Meanwhile, Stanford was left to figure out what went wrong down to their decision to don black uniforms for the occasion. The Cardinal trailed by 19 in the first half, and by 39 in the second half before falling by 32.

Rosco Allen and Marcus Allen led Stanford with 16 points each, but Rosco Allen missed all eight of his 3-point attempts. Among Stanford’s starters, only Dorian Pickens hit a three-pointer, but Pickens, returning to his prep roots in Arizona, missed eight of 10 shot attempts from the field.

Defensively, the 37-27 rebounding disadvantage caught Dawkins’ attention, but Stanford failed to take Arizona out of any of its offensive attack as the Wildcats amassed 24 assists on 29 made baskets.

With their opponent still to be determined, Stanford will open the Pac-12 tournament Wednesday in the session opener scheduled for noon in Las Vegas.