Cal Bears center Michelle Onyiah (0) takes a shot over the Wake Forest Demon Deacons forward Kennedy Moore (15) at LVJM Coliseum in Winston-Salem NC on Sun Jan 19, 2025 (Cal Bears photo)
On the Cal Bears WBB podcast with Morris Phillips:
#1 Cal Bears who are Cal is 17-3, 5-2, 11 scheduled games remaining, nine against teams below them in the ACC standings and 11-0 at Haas Pavilion. Marta Suarez led with 16 points with nine assists, Ioanna Krimili and Lulu Twidale scored four three pointers and both finished with 14 points on Sunday in Cal’s 67-55 win over the Wake Forest Demon Deacons (7-12) in Winston-Salem NC.
#2 Michelle Onyiah scored ten points and grabbed ten rebounds with her fifth double-double of the season.
#3 Krimili was aggressive in getting the basketball early scoring their first eight points for a 10-2 start that put Cal in front 23-19 for Cal’s first lead four minutes in the second quarter and never look back.
#4 Morris, after getting crushed by Duke 72-38 on Thursday how important was it for them to turn around on Sunday and get that win against Wake Forest to end their road trip to Tabacco Road?
#5 Cal tips off against their cross bay rival the Stanford Cardinal (10-8) Thu Jan 22 for a 7:00pm PST start. The Cardinal are 13th in the ACC. Stanford has almost been flawless at home with a 9-1 record. Do you see the Bears not being intimidated and getting business done or could it be a battle for them at Maples Pavilion?
This is the week to tell Tara VanDerveer stories. The unquestioned titan of college basketball coaching retired after 38 seasons at Stanford with an all-time record 1,216 wins overall. VanDerveer arrived on the Farm in 1985 and turned a fledgling program into a national powerhouse in her first five seasons, then never took her foot off the gas. Great players, national title contending teams, and big crowds became the norm, and I watched it all unfold in person.
I have Tara VanDerveer stories on demand for my most qualified audiences. This is easily the best one.
On March 30, 2009, VanDerveer and her Cardinal team were riding a 19-game win streak, just another sign that VanDerveer had recaptured the magic that disappeared when her teams went an unprecedented decade without a Final Four appearance, a dry spell that ended a year earlier in March 2008. Led by 6’4” Jayne Appel, the Cardinal were better known for their supporting cast than Appel, who dominated other Pac-12 post players without putting up eye-popping numbers or drawing attention she deserved as the best player on the West Coast’s best team.
Ironically, the best example of Appel’s flying under the radar came earlier that season in Hawaii when Stanford routed Iowa State–their March 30th opponent–by 38 points with Appel scoring just six. For Iowa State coach Bill Fennelly that rough loss was the impetus for his strategy in the rematch: leave Appel one-on-one in the paint and implore his Cyclones to clamp down on the numerous Stanford 3-point threats.
“Tara told me she was pretty sure they weren’t going to double me, so we knew immediately that we were going to go inside,” Appel said of the approach heading into the Elite Eight rematch. “That was our game plan from the very beginning.”
On March 30, 2009 my daughter, Sydney Beau, was a precocious 18-month-old child who had already grown accustomed to her dad’s many day adventures, both inside and outside of the daily realm of a working parent. With mommy Sysha busy after her senior year of college at the Academy of Art, Sydney and I bonded through my ability to bring her with me during the work day, as I filed—and served–legal papers for a number of San Francisco attorneys.
All weekend leading to Monday the 30th I knew the 6pm tip time to see Iowa State-Stanford in Berkeley (of all places!) would be challenging after a 9am-5pm work day. And I knew that Sydney Beau would be along for the ride, and the adventure. Our key, third component—Syd’s do-it-all stroller—would miss the trip to Berkeley due to crowded, rush hour BART trains that would undoubtedly test Sydney and daddy’s patience.
I attended my first women’s basketball game in 1980. Within a month I saw Machine Gun Molly Bolin of the WBL, Nancy Lieberman and USF’s All-American Mary Hile play in person. To see both games, I traveled fewer than 15 blocks from my house. It was as if the women’s game had come by my house looking for me. At San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium, Bolin wowed me with her pull-up jumpers in transition that seem to settle in the rim as if she had the basketball on a tether. In that 1980 season, Bolin would establish records for points in a game (55) and average points per game (32.8). Just 23 years old, Bolin had polish on her game that few of her competitors could match.
Lieberman, a college player at Old Dominion, was better known than Bolin. She developed quite a reputation in Queens for playing with the boys and schooling them as a teenager on the New York hard courts. It wasn’t until she was a high school sophomore that she settled into competing against other high school girls and teams she would dominate. Lieberman’s story appeared in the Chronicle in the days leading to her appearance at USF to face Hile and the Lady Dons. I read it and knew I had to get parental clearance to ride the bus alone at night—maybe for the first time–and see the game.
Hile is simply the greatest women’s basketball player ever with a San Francisco background. As a prep, she developed as a Jill of all trades, playing four sports at her Sunnyvale, CA high school. But once she landed at the University of San Francisco, Hile settled into rewriting the record book by scoring 2,324 points and grabbing 1,602 rebounds in her four years on the Hilltop. Her records still stand, and her point total is greater than Bill Russell, K.C. Jones and Bill Cartwright, the better-known men basketballers that played at USF.
Unfortunately, January 9, 1980 didn’t live up to the billing. With Lieberman and future Olympian Anne Donovan forming an incredible duo, USF was left by the side of the road on its biggest night of women’s hoops ever. The Monarchs ran away and hid, winning 70-46. But I was forever changed, wanting to see what great women’s players I could run into next.
Five years after Old Dominion tore up San Francisco, coach Wendy Larry and the Monarchs were still at it. Led by Medina Dixon and Tracy Claxton, Old Dominion captured the 1985 NCAA Tournament, winning 70-65 over Georgia in the championship game. Along the way to the title, ODU got past Ohio State in the East Regional final, winning 72-68. That would be the last game Tara VanDerveer would coach at Ohio State. In a stroke of genius, athletic director Andy Geiger convinced the 31-year old VanDerveer to leave OSU for Stanford, which at the time was coming off a 9-19 season and playing in front of 300 fans a night.
“My dad told me I was crazy to take this job. He said, ‘You’ll be unemployed and coming home to live with us in three months’,” VanDerveer recalled.
VanDerveer captured her first national title at Stanford, winning it all in 1990. Then again in 1992, Stanford was crowned champion. VanDerveer was well on her way to turning a three-month, crash-and-burn job into the most superior 38 years of college coaching the sport had ever seen.
Stanford’s 2007-08 team didn’t come out of nowhere. I know. Now 22 seasons into my love affair with VanDerveer’s basketball dynasty, I’d already seen more great players than I could ever imagine. Starting with Jennifer Azzi, VanDerveer rolled out All-Americans seemingly two and three at a time. I saw Val Whiting, Kate Starbird, Rachel Hemmer, Olympia Scott, Kristin Folkl, Lindsey Yamasaki, Nicole Powell and Candice Wiggins all play in person at Maples Pavilion, right in the middle of Stanford’s sprawling campus. I caught the train, drove, and rode my bike to Palo Alto. By any means I had to see Stanford play and VanDerveer coach. To this day, I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen Stanford lose in person. Maybe once? I’m not sure, but for the purposes of this story, I’ve been to 65 Stanford games in person, and seen them win every time. Amazing.
That 2008 team featuring Wiggins, VanDerveer’s self-proclaimed favorite player to ever receive her coaching, broke the dry spell as Stanford qualified for the Final Four. But local high school McDonald’s All-American Appel, Kayla Pedersen, Ros Gold-Onwude, Jillian Harmon and Jeanette Pohlen were also on that team as non-seniors. Subsequently, Stanford started the 2008-09 under the hardly mysterious, absolutely attention-grabbing moniker of “loaded.”
Sydney and I were destined to be a sports consuming father-daughter duo from the start. My father, Morris Jr. and I bonded over our frequent attendance at Stanford and Cal football games, Giants games, and the A’s. In fact, my father took me to four World Series games between 1972 and 1974 at the Coliseum and in Los Angeles for the first A’s-Dodgers World Series.
Sydney had been to games previously, but on both occasions with Sysha with us as well. Too young to actually watch a game, Syd was content to sit on one of our laps, watch, and listen to all that was going on around her. While oblivious, my child was already on the fast track, having “watched” Stanford play at home in the NCAA Tournament (March 24, 2008 vs. UTEP) and experienced Sacred Heart Cathedral’s No. 1 nationally-ranked high school girls team (January 2008) in their home gym.
I can’t say that Sydney ever became a fan of the game. Now 16 years old, she’s a surfer, a swimmer, and a student. My deceased father would scratch his head knowing that his grandchild’s high school football team won a California state championship, played 15 games, and she didn’t attend any of them. But ultimately, none of that matters. She’s our child, we love her and support any healthy activities she wants to pursue.
Not only did Tara VanDerveer predict that Iowa State would leave Jayne Appel one-on-one in the paint on March 30, 2009, she also felt the result would be a 50-point night for her star player with the game being played just 19 miles from Appel’s high school in Concord, CA. Drake’s Lori Baumann holds the record for individual scoring in the NCAA Tournament with a 50-point game in 1982, and Sheryl Swoopes is second with a 47-point game in 1993. The normally tight-lipped VanDerveer kept tight-lipped, mentioning her forecast only to Appel minutes before the game tipped off. I walked into the arena that night, unaware of what the Stanford sideline had in store. An NCAA-record scoring performance in an Elite Eight game was a lot, even in 2009, some 15 years prior to the Caitlin Clark supernova striking planet Earth.
But almost immediately, that’s exactly what transpired. Appel scored 27 points in the first half, made 13 shots, missed just six, and outscored Iowa State single handedly. In her junior year season, Big Jayne was injury free, in top condition, and way too nimble with her feet, arms, and hands to be contained. An All-American on her best night, she blew past her previous high that season of 29 points by scoring the first six points of the second half, and the rout was on. With 46 points, 16 rebounds in 35 minutes on the floor, Appel settled into third place on the Tournament game scoring list, a spot she still holds today.
“I wasn’t concerned about how many points [Appel] scored,” Iowa State coach Bill Fennelly said. “Our plan was to make 10 or 11 3’s, and take away the 3 from them.”
“I came into the gym with the mind-set that I wasn’t going to leave without the net,” Appel said of the 74-53 victory. “We weren’t going to leave here without cutting down those nets. It just wasn’t an option.”
Sydney didn’t know Jayne Appel was having a big night. Sydney was having a big night. First of all, she looked great in a billowing, red dress with tights underneath. As soon as we arrived at the game (fashionably 20 minutes late), the compliments started, as my daughter loved being around 9,000 other people, many realizing what a dashing 18-month old child could be. In exchange for the compliments, she put on a show, prancing in several directions at once, unconstrained by me or her stroller. I knew my daughter, I could keep an eye on her and the game. So I thought…
Once we settled into an area of the bleachers behind one of the baskets that allowed us appropriate space for a daddy-daughter combo, I was immediately on alert. Sydney, I later found out, had napped much of the day while I was at work. That following a big breakfast, and preceding her entrance at the game. My beautiful daughter started climbing in and through the bleachers at a furious pace, not caring about messing up her clothes.
Quickly, I positioned myself to grab her at any moment. People were watching me, and both of us, as I played a dangerous game of sports fan and parent trying to prevent my child from falling through the bleachers into the metal supports and hardwood below. I’m sure some watching thought I was foolish enough to let Sydney harm herself.
I wasn’t that foolish.
While Appel racked up the points, I just stopped watching. Thanks to Tara VanDerveer, I’d never been at a Stanford game and worried about them possibly losing. So the crowd, heavily populated with Stanford fans, let me know that things were going well, and I just focused on Sydney.
So on the night Big Jayne Appel scored a Stanford-record 46 points, I probably saw her score 18. I’m okay with that, I got a lifetime memory instead.
The Stanford Cardinal forward Brandon Angel (23) is in pursuit of the Washington State Cougars forward Andrej Jakimmovski (23) at Beasley Coliseum in Pullman on Sat, Feb 17, 2024 (Washington State Cougars photo)
By Daniel Dullum
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Washington State used a balanced attack and a big second half Saturday, as the Cougars routed Stanford 72-59 in Pac-12 men’s basketball at Beasley Coliseum in Pullman, Wash.
Jaylen Wells and Isaac Jones scored 15 points apiece to lead WSU (20-6 overall, 7-8 Pac-12). Myles Rice was next with 14 points and Andrej Jakimovski finished with 13 points. Oscar Cluff had three steals and pulled down 12 of the Cougars’ 37 rebounds and Rice collected five assists.
Brandon Angel led the Cardinal (12-13 overall, 7-8 Pac-12) with 15 points, hitting 6 of 9 field goal attempts. Kanaan Carlyle and Michael Jones were next with 12 points each. Carlyle dished out five assists, 6 hit two 3-pointers, and Maxime Raynaud grabbed five rebounds.
Stanford trailed 21-11 with 9:56 remaining in the first half, but rallied with a 23-12 run to take a 34-33 lead. Benny Gealer scored in the last seconds of the half giving the Cardinal a 36-35 lead at the break.
The Cardinal enjoyed their biggest lead, 47-42, with 15:32 to play. Washington State reeled off a 21-6 run to assume control of the contest. The Cougars outscored Stanford 37-23 in the second half.
Stanford returns home to Maples Pavilion this Thursday, hosting Oregon at 8 p.m.
The Stanford Cardinal forward Maxime Raynaud (42) takes a jump shot over the Washington State Cougars forward Oscar Cluff (45) in the first half at Maples Pavilion in Palo Alto on Thu Jan 18, 2024 (AP News photo)
By Michael Roberson
STANFORD, Calif. — The Stanford Cardinal (9-8, 4-3 Pac-12) were overwhelmed by the aggressive Washington State Cougars, (13-5, 4-3 Pac-12) 89-75, on an 8 PM start time at Maples Pavilion.
Stanford never led in the game, and started the contest off being down 6-0 early in the first half. Washington State led by as much as 16 points in the initial half, on runs of 6-0 and 13-0.
The Cardinal tried to keep it close in the initial half, and had several chances to tie the ballgame. However, the Cougars utilized that large run to open up their widest margin, around the 4:00 mark.
Washington State managed to lead by 13 at halftime, 42-29.and presented two players in double figures. Redshirt freshman guard Myles Rice had 16 points and 5 assists, while his senior forward teammate Isaac Jones scored 15.
Freshman Kanaan Carlyle was the only Cardinal player to eclipse 10+ points (11), as the team shot 44% from the field and committed 12 turnovers. WSU only gave away the ball 1/3 of the amount of their Pacific – 12 opponents, and shot 51% themselves.
The second half was a similar story, as Washington State scored the first four points of the second half. Immediately they were up by 17.Their largest advantage (19) came within the first six minutes of part two of the conference battle.
Stanford made many attempts to cut into the deficit, and managed to get it down to single-digits (2:30) on a Michael Jones FT, 82-73 WSU. Unfortunately for the Cardinal.the aforementioned Rice made an immediate layup. putting them back up by 11. After two made free throws by Jaylen Wells, Rice hit his 5th and final three (5/10) and the Cougars’ final tally of 89 with 42 seconds left in the game.
Cardinal sophomore guard Benny Gealer made a layup shortly thereafter, notching his team’s 75 points. WSU was in the position of taking a knee, the football equivalent of dribbling the clock out until the buzzer, After that timeframe, the Cougars were the 14-point victors, 89-75 over the home squad Cardinal.
The Cardinal were led in scoring by Kanaan Carlyle’s career-high and record breaking 31 points. Maxime Raynaud helped out with a double-double (22 points & 10 rebounds) and Benny Gealer chipped in 12 points and dished 4 assists.
The Cougars were led by the electrifying Myles Rice’s impressive statline, He scored a game-high 35 points, dropped 8 dimes and swiped 4 steals, They also had three other players in double-figures. Isaac Jones (24), Jaylen Wells (13), and Oscar Cluff (12) and 14 rebounds.
Stanford will be next in action Saturday, January 20, hosting the Washington Huskies at 6 PM PDT on the Pac-12 Network. Washington State heads across the Bay to Berkeley to battle California on the same at 2 PM PDT, also on the Pac-12 network.
Note: Kanaan Carlyle’s 31 points set a Stanford freshman record for most points by a first year player. He also has the most points by a TRUE Freshman In the Pac-12 conference this season
Myles Rice’s 35 points is the most in the conference by an overall freshman, because he’s a Redshirt Freshman,
Stanford Cardinal offense dominated the San Diego Toreros at Maples Pavilion in Palo Alto on Sun Dec 3, 2023 (Stanford Cardinal photo)
By Michael Roberson
STANFORD, Calif. — The Stanford Cardinal (4-4, 0-0 Pac-12) attacked the guest San Diego Toreros (6-3, 0-0 WCC), and chased them all around the Farm, 88-64..
Senior forward Brandon Angel led the way for Stanford, with 25 points and 8 rebounds. He also got the party started with a three-pointer, demarking the first points of the game.The 3-0 lead was a precursor for the rest of the battle, as the Cardinal were in front from that point on to the final whistle.
Not only did Angel drill a three, but senior Michael Jones dropped one too. Stanford was on a 6-0 run with only two made shots; however, the Southern California bullfighters had their own response (4-0). That would be the closest margin (2) of the allotted 40-minute contest.
Stanford led by as much as 17 points during the remainder of the first half. By the time the recess bell rang, the Cardinal had a 16-point advantage over the Toreros, 43-27.
Angel had 15 points and 6 rebounds, while Michael Jones chipped in 11 more to help expand the lead. No players from San Diego scratched double-digits at intermission..
In the second half, the visitors tried to fight their way back with their swords and capes, but their efforts were proved to be futile, despite a 7-0 run late in the game. Stanford on the other hand hit a lead as significant as 26 points in the closing seconds. They settled for a 24-point victory, 88-64 instead.
Senior forward Spencer Jones got himself into the double-figure club in the second half (16) and snagged a few more rebounds (6). Angel added 10 more to his tally (25), while Michael Jones contributed an additional 8 to his total (19).
San Diego presented four players with at least 10 points to their boxscore. Junior guard Deuce Turner (12), senior Devin Dahlke and freshman Dragos Lungu both had 11, while junior Wayne McKinney III offered 10 points and 5 rebounds.
Stanford will next be in action at Maples Sunday, December 17, 2 PM PDT, hosting the Idaho Vandals. San Diego will be heading to Logan, UT to take on the Utah State Aggies, Wednesday, December 6 at 6 PM MST.
Oregon State guard Dexter Akanno (4) drives to the basket past Stanford forward Maxime Raynaud (42) during the first half at Gill Coliseum in Corvallis Or on Thu Mar 2, 2023 (AP News photo)
By Daniel Dullum Thursday, March 2, 2023
Stanford won its second straight game on Thursday, defeating Oregon State 83-60 in Pac-12 men’s basketball at Gill Coliseum in Corvallis, Ore., giving the Cardinal a season sweep in the series.
Spencer Jones led the Cardinal (13-17 overall, 7-12 Pac-12) with 25 points, followed by Brandon Angel with 15 points and five assists, Maxime Raynaud with 13 points and Harrison Ingram had 13 points, nine assists and eight rebounds. Michael O’Connell had eight assists and Max Murrell added four blocks.
Jones hit 10 of 16 from the field, including 5 of 9 from 3-point range. Overall, the Cardinal made 10 of 26 3-pointers and shot 58 percent.
Jordan Pope and Tyler Bilodeau each scored 11 points to lead Oregon State (10-20 overall, 4-15 Pac-12). Bilodeau also had six rebounds. Stanford’s defense held the Beavers to 35 percent shooting from the field.
Oregon State led 14-5 early, but the Cardinal took a 15-14 lead after responding with a 10-0 run. The Cardinal led 40-34 at halftime and outscored the Beavers 43-26 in the second half.
Stanford opened the second half with a 19-7 run and led by as many as 28 with less than two minutes to play.
The Cardinal wrap up their regular season Saturday at Oregon. The 1 p.m. game will be nationally televised by CBS.
Stanford forward Cameron Brink (22) celebrates her basket against UCLA during the second half at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles on Fri Jan 13, 2023 (AP News photo)
Daniel Dullum Friday, January 13, 2023
Stanford’s one-two scoring punch of Haley Jones and Cameron Brink paced the No. 2 Cardinal to a 72-59 Pac-12 women’s basketball win over No. 8 UCLA Friday in Los Angeles.
Jones finished with 16 points and 12 rebounds, and Brink added 12 points, 11 rebounds and seven blocked shots for the Cardinal (18-1 overall, 5-0 Pac-12). Hannah Jump and Talana Lepolo each hit a pair of 3-pointers for Stanford while finishing with eight points apiece. Kiki Iriafen and Agnes Emma-Nnopu each scored nine points.
Charisma Osborne and Gina Conti each finished with 13 points for the Bruins (14-3 overall, 3-2 Pac-12), followed by Emily Bessoir with 10. Osborne also had seven rebounds and three steals. Conti and London Jones each had three assists.
Stanford held a 38-26 rebounding advantage. The Cardinal shot 41 percent (25 of 61) on field goals, 7 of 22 from 3-point range and hit 15 of 20 free throws. The Cardinal used a 21-10 fourth quarter to pull away in a game that Stanford led 51-49 after three periods.
UCLA shot 33 percent (21 of 64) from the field, including 9 of 27 behind the arc.
The Stanford Cardinal Harrison Ingram (55) gets his reverse slam on Ingram and the Cardinal take on the Colorado Buffaloes Thu Dec 27, 2022 at Maples Pavilion in Palo Alto (Stanford Cardinal file photo)
On the Stanford Cardinal podcast with Michael Roberson:
#1 The Stanford Cardinal (6-7) who faced off with the Loyola Chicago Ramblers (6-6) picked up a 75-62 win last Thursday at Kaiser Permanente Arena in Santa Cruz it was Stanford’s second win in six games.
#2 The Cardinal’s Harrison Ingram led with 15 points and James Keefe followed up with 14 points to help provide with the offense the Cardinal needed to win this one.
#3 During the unforgettable 2020-21 season for Stanford the Cardinal used Kaiser Permanente for their home games replacing Maples Pavilion as Stanford was under Covid protocols as ordered by Santa Clara County that season. The win last Thursday brings Stanford up to 6-0 when playing in Santa Cruz.
#4 Stanford’s Michael Jones continues to have some offensive success scoring 12 points good enough to finish third against the Ramblers last Thursday.
#5 The Cardinal host the Colorado Buffaloes (8-5) the Buffaloes won their last game against the Northern Colorado Bears (5-6) last Sunday 88-77. Michael how do you see this contest as the Cardinal as they open this two game homestand?
Stanford women celebrate their 13th win over the Creighton Blue Jays at Maples Pavilion on Tue Dec 20, 2022 in Palo Alto (@StanfordWBB photo)
On the Cardinal podcast with Daniel Dullum:
#1 Daniel, Sister Jean’s essence back in the Windy City wasn’t enough to prevent the Stanford Cardinal (5-7) from downing Loyola Chicago Ramblers (6-6) inside Kaiser Permanente Arena, 75-62.
#2 Daniel, The Cardinal meant business in the first 20 minutes of play, by going on an 8-0 run and leading by 17 points at the half, 37-20.
#3 The Stanford increased the advantage to 21 points early in the second half, and cruised in Santa Cruz to the final horn for an impressive victory south of of the Farm, 75-62
#4 Daniel, Stanford women’s head coach Tara Van Derveer was hoping to give her starters a rest but the Cardinal ran into trouble in the second half and the starters had to come in off the bench.
#5 Stanford’s (13-1) Haley Jones had 16 points and eight assists in 37 minutes against Creighton (8-4), freshman Talana Lepolo got her season second best with 17 points. No.2 Stanford beat Creighton No. 21, 72-59 on Tuesday night.
Stanford Cardinal guard Michael Jones (13) goes on offense against the Texas Longhorns guard Marcus Carr (5) at American Airlines Arena in Dallas on Sun Dec 18, 2022 (AP News photo)
By Daniel Dullum Sunday, December 18, 2022
No. 7 Texas upended Stanford 72-62 Sunday in the Pac-12 Coast-to-Coast Challenge, played at American Airlines Arena in Dallas.
Michael Jones led the Cardinal with 17 points, hitting 5 of 10 from the field, including two 3-pointers. Brandon Angel and Spencer Jones added 11 and 10 points, respectively. Jones also grabbed a game-high seven rebounds and had three blocked shots.
The game marked a homecoming for Dallas-area natives Harrison Ingram and Ryan Agarwal. Ingram contributed five points, six rebounds and four assists.
Max Murrell hit a 3 to give Stanford (4-7 overall) an 11-5 lead early in the first half, but the Longhorns (9-1) forged a run to build a 22-17 lead, eventually leading 31-28 at halftime.
Texas led 55-40 at 12:10 of the second half, but the Cardinal responded with a 15-4 run to pull to within 59-56 with 6:27 remaining. The Longhorns hit four jumpers late to put the game away.
Marcus Carr led the Longhorns with 17 points, followed by Timmy Allen and Sir’Jabari Rice with 15 points each. Tyrese Hunter added five assists.
Stanford shot 44 percent (20 of 46) from the field, while the Longhorns made 45 percent (28 of 62). Texas held a 33-32 rebounding edge, and forced 18 Cardinal turnovers.
The Cardinal return to action on Thursday, hosting Loyola Chicago in a home-away-from-home game in Santa Cruz. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. and the game will be carried by Pac-12 Networks.
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