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Stanford Cardinal men’s basketball podcast with Jerry Feitelberg: After narrow win against WSU, Cardinal reboots for Arizona and Sean Miller fiasco tonight

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On the Stanford Cardinal Men’s Basketball podcast with Jerry:

1 Stanford Cardinal (15-13) hosted the Washington State Cougars (11-17) had quite a week in the Bay Area beating Cal and just losing to the Cardinal 86-84

2 The Cardinal got past the Cougars in double digits the highest 12 points and finished beating them by two points

3 The Cardinal’s top offensive players Reid Travis, Michael Humphrey, and Dorian Pickens were key in helping the Cardinal get by the Cougars who are the bottom of the Pac 12

4 The Cardinal are in the Tucson to face the Arizona Wildcats as the Wildcats head coach Sean Miller is going to be front and center as the game maybe secondary to the Miller story. The big question is will Miller return to Arizona next season?

Jerry does the Stanford Men’s basketball podcast each Thursday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

 

Stanford Cardinal men’s basketball takes down WSU 86-84; Davis’ free throws break tie with 10 seconds remaining

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By Alexandra Evans

PALO ALTO–The Stanford Cardinal Men’s Basketball team (15-13) received a visit from the Washington State Cougars (11-16) at Maples Pavilion on Saturday, which was also Senior Day for the Cardinal.

Cougars’ Drick Bernstine made the first basket of the game, the start of the team’s lead over the Cardinal. It was not until the 7:35 mark that the Cardinal caught the lead.

Unlike Thursday’s match against the Washington Huskies, however, the Cardinal’s lead never made it to the double digits. The highest score by which they exceeded the Cougars was seven, as they kept managing to inch their way close to a tie, until the end of the period when Michael Humphrey, one of the seniors who was honored before the match (along with Dorian Pickens), made a buzzer-beating three-pointer for the Cardinal. The score was 49-40 at halftime

Freshman KZ Okpala, who made the first basket for his team, had the most points for the Cardinal after the opening period with 11. Bernstine exceeded the Cougars with 12 points.

When the second period began, Malachi Flynn made a three-pointer for the Cougars, followed by a layup from Kwinton Hinson. Shortly after, Hinson was fouled and Okpala made both free throws, making the score 51-45. Humphrey then got a layup directly after, and then made a dunk (assisted by Daejon Davis) to give the Cardinal their first double digit lead of the game less than four minutes in. Reid Travis brought the Cardinal’s lead to 12 with a layup at the five-minute mark.

The Cardinal managed to keep their lead in the double digits after Travis blocked a shot from Milan Acquaah, and again Oscar da Silva made a three-pointer at the eight-minute mark. Dorian Pickens then made two free throws to give the Cardinal a 14-point lead.

The Cougars cut their trail to single digits after Robert Franks got a three-pointer. The Cardinal’s lead remained in the single digits (even dropping to a two-point difference with a minute remaining), and then the score was tied 84-84 after Franks got on a breakaway and dunked for the Cougars with 30 seconds left in the game.

Two free throws from Davis put the Cardinal ahead by two points with 10 seconds on the clock, and they took home an 86-84 win.

Okpala and Travis finished the game with 20 points to lead the Cardinal. Franks led the Cougars with 19 points.

The Stanford Cardinal will head to the desert on Thursday, March 1 to take on the Arizona Wildcats.

Stanford Cardinal defeats Washington Huskies 94-78 for the ​second time this season; That’s two straight wins in a row for Stanford

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photo by gostanford.com: Stanford Cardinal Travis Reid (22) led Stanford in offense on Thursday night at Maples Pavilion with 33 points

By Alexandra Evans

PALO ALTO—After defeating their archrivals, the California Golden Bears, in Berkeley on Sunday, the Stanford Cardinal Men’s Basketball team (15-13 overall, 9-6 in the Pac-12) returned to Maples Pavillion on Thursday night to face the Washington Huskies (18-10 overall, 8-7 in the Pac-12), whom they beat 73-64 in mid-January on the road. Both teams were 8-6 in the Pac-12 conference going into the match.

Humphrey made the first basket for the Cardinal and Noah Dickerson for the Huskies. The Cardinal kept a lead over the Huskies for the entire first half, which gradually increased as the period progressed. The Huskies started trailing the Cardinal by the double digits 5:29 in after forward Dorian Pickens made a three-pointer.

Huskies’ Dominic Green cut Stanford’s lead back into the single digits at 10:28, but only for 19 seconds, when Stanford’s Reid Travis made a jumper. The lead remained in the double digits from there on out. At the end of the period, the Cardinal exceeded the Huskies by 22 points.

Travis ended the period with 23 points, the highest on the team, and Pickens, Travis’ runner-up, finished the opening stanza with 12 points. Dickerson led the Huskies with 10 points, followed by Jaylen Nowell who had seven.

The second period began with a jumper from Pickens to make the score 50-26. The Huskies began inching their way toward cutting the Cardinal’s lead below 20 (and they came close at the four-minute mark when David Crisp got a layup to make the score 56-36), but the Cardinal held on as Oscar da Silva made a three-pointer at the five minute mark, keeping them ahead of the Huskies by more than 20 points.

Da Silva made one of three free throws just after the seven-minute mark to bring the score to 62-42. Daejon Davis (who was originally committed to the University of Washington) then stepped in for da Silva.

Dominic Green made a jumper for the Huskies to bring the Cardinal’s lead down to 18 points. Additionally, after Josh Sharma was fouled, Nahziah Carter made both free throws to cut the lead to 16 points. Then, Green made a three-pointer with 11 minutes remaining on the clock, and the Huskies trailed only by 13 (62-49), the closest they’d get to a single digit lead since early in the first half.

After much back and forth in the three minutes that followed, a dunk from Humphrey, a three-pointer from Pickens, a layup from da Silva, two free throws from Pickens, and a three-pointer from da Silva, the Cardinal inched their way back up to a 19-point lead, then 21 after da Silva made a dunk. Crisp made a three-pointer for the Huskies, followed by a layup from Humphrey for the Cardinals, and then another three-pointer from Matisse Thybulle brought the score to 78-62.

Carter chimed in on the three-pointer action and shot one for the Huskies with just over 6 minutes remaining in the match, and the score was 80-65. Nowell got a layup with 5:19 remaining and the lead was once again cut to 13 points, and then increased to 14 after Pickens made one of two free throws for the Cardinal.

Travis stepped on the line for a bonus one-and-one, making both shots to bring the score to 83-67. Carter then made a free throw (83-68) for the Huskies.

Carter was fouled with just over four and a half minutes remaining, giving Travis two free throw opportunities, both of which he made. Carter made a three-pointer for the Huskies before his teammate Hameir Wright was fouled, giving Davis two free throws; he made one to make the score 87-71.

A three-pointer from Thybulle cut the Cardinal’s lead to 12, then KZ Okpala made one of two free throws from Stanford to make it 13 once again. Carter missed a three-pointer which would have brought the lead down to 10 points.

The Cardinal closed out their win with one free throw from Travis and another from Okpala.

Travis earned a career high in points and led the Cardinal with 33, and Pickens finished second with 20 points. Nowell led the Huskies with 18 points, followed by Carter with 17.

Stanford will face the Washington State Cougars on Saturday, February 24, which is also Senior Day. Pickens and Humphrey will be honored for their contribution to Cardinal Basketball.

Stanford overcomes inconsistent road play in 77-73 win at Cal

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By Daniel Dullum
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Sunday, February 18, 2018

There was no shortage of factors in the Stanford Cardinal’s 77-73 neighborhood rivalry in a Pac-12 showdown with the California Golden Bears at Haas Pavilion Sunday.

Individually, Reid Travis stepped up with a 6-of-13 shooting night to go with 10 rebounds, finishing with 13 points. Daejon Davis was 7-of-10 from the floor, 7-of-9 at the line, five assists and two steals. Davis turned the ball over seven times, but still led the Cardinal with 22 points, despite fouling out.

Dorian Pickens also had a strong outing with 17 points, 6-of-10 shooting, two 3-pointers, 3-of-4 at the line and four boards. Michael Humphrey chipped in with 11 points and seven rebounds.

As a team, the Cardinal shot nearly 45 percent overall, 76 percent on free throws, and outrebounded Cal 45-37. This is important, because Stanford hasn’t been a consistent road team throughout the Pac-12 schedule.

That inconsistency nearly did the Cardinal in again, but Stanford overcame those tendencies down the stretch, earning its first win over the Bears in Berkeley in three years.

Cal’s press gave the Cardinal fits, forcing Stanford into 17 turnovers that the Bears converted into 21 points. The Cardinal had an eight-point lead late in the second half before the Bears tied it at 67-67 with 4:31 to play.

From there, Stanford put together a five-point run before Davis fouled out with 2:11 left. But Pickens sank a pair of free throws with 8.7 seconds remaining to give the Cardinal a split in the season series.

The win was important for another reason for Stanford – the Cardinal are tied with Washington in the Pac-12 race, trailing fourth-place Utah by a half-game. The top four teams earn a first round bye in the Pac-12 tournament.

Up Next: The Cardinal host Washington on Thursday with a chance make up more ground in the Pac-12 standings.

Shooting woes continue for Stanford as they lose to Colorado 64-56

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By Daniel Dullum
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Sunday, February 11, 2018

The Colorado Buffaloes won its third consecutive Pac-12 men’s basketball game Sunday at Coors Events Center in Boulder, Colo., as they defeated the Stanford Cardinal 64-56.

Lucas Siewert led Colorado (15-10 overall, 7-6 Pac-12) with 17 points, which included two key 3-pointers in the closing minutes. George King and McKinley Wright scored 11 and 10 points, respectively, for the Buffs, who defeated the Cardinal for the ninth consecutive time.

Dorian Pickens topped the Stanford scoring column with 18 points, followed by Reid Travis with 10. The Cardinal evened their overall record at 13-13, 7-6 in league play.

Stanford trailed by 11 at halftime and gradually cut its deficit to 45-42 when Isaac White and Pickens hit consecutive 3s at 9:01 of the second half. Pickens connected on another 3-pointer to pull the Cardinal within one point at the 6:35 mark.

At that point, the Buffaloes forged a 12-3 run, punctuated by two Siewert 3-pointers and two baskets by Tyler Bey, allowing Colorado to build a 10-point lead with 1:07 to play.

Colorado built a 31-20 lead at the break with the help of four 3-pointers in the last 3:55 of the half.

It was a tough afternoon of shooting for the Cardinal, which made 35.7 percent of its field goal attempts. Three days earlier, Stanford made 35.8 percent of its shots at Utah. The Cardinal was 7-of-21 from 3-point range and 9-of-15 on free throws.

The Buffaloes outrebounded Stanford 42-38. King was the top rebounder for Colorado with nine, while Travis led the Cardinal with six.

Next Sunday, the Cardinal travels to Berkeley to face the Golden Bears.

Stanford Cardinal Men’s Basketball Podcast with Jerry Feitelberg: Cardinal got game against Oregon schools; Can they do the same against in Utah and Colorado this week?

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On the Stanford Men’s Basketball Podcast with Jerry:

1 The Stanford Cardinal in their last contest got back at the Oregon Ducks for last year’s loss with a crushing 96-61 win at Maples Pavilion last Saturday.

2 The Cardinal were only behind once in the game down 11-10 in the first four minutes until the Cardinal’s Dorian Pickens sank a three-pointer and Stanford never looked back.

3 After the Cardinal started the season with a 5-1 record they had three straight loses to Arizona, UCLA, and USC. The Cardinal turned things around in their last homestand with two wins over Oregon State and Oregon and improved their record to 13-11.

4 The Cardinal and Ducks were matching each other on the scoreboard but the Cardinal in the second half had a breakout half at one point outscoring the Ducks by 35 points.

5 Stanford opens a three-game road trip beginning tonight in Utah, and then moving onto Colorado on Sunday, and concluding the road trip the following Sunday, February 18th at Cal.

Jerry does the Stanford Cardinal Podcasts each Thursday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Cardinal rout Ducks 96-61, avenge last year’s heartbreaker

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By Joey Friedman
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February 3, 2018

PALO ALTO — The grass was green for the Stanford Cardinal on the Oregon Trail as they handed the Oregon Ducks its worst loss of the Dana Altman era. The Cardinal (13-11, 7-4 Pac-12) cruised to a 96-61 win over the Ducks at Maples Pavilion. Oregon competed with Stanford for the first four minutes and actually, at one point, had an 11-10 lead. Once Stanford took back the lead (13-11) on a Dorian Pickens’ 3-pointer, they never looked back and led for the rest of the game.

After a great 5-1 start to conference play (including a win over #16 Arizona State), the Cardinal had slowed down. After three straight losses to #14 Arizona, UCLA, and USC, the Cardinal turned it around in a dominant win over Oregon State at Maples last Thursday night to avoid evening their conference record. Similarly, Oregon has suffered close losses to Arizona and USC and they also won against the Top 25 Arizona State Sun Devils. They entered today’s game fresh off of a three-game win streak, beating UCLA, Oregon State, and Cal en route to a conference record that was a half a game behind Stanford.

A quick-paced game until the closing minutes, Stanford and Oregon were matching each other on the scoreboard for the opening minutes. Then, Stanford’s shooting ignited. At a certain point in the first half, the Cardinal was shooting 75% from the field (15-20). They finished the half shooting 68% (19-28). Aided both by their shooting and by Oregon’s sluggish offense, which had numerous scoring droughts each lasting a couple of minutes, Stanford led at the half 50-34. Pickens contributed 14 points in the first half.

For only one minute in the middle of the first half, it did seem as though Oregon had momentum shifting their way. For the first couple of defensive possessions during which they pressed, the Ducks caught the Cardinal off guard, causing three Cardinal turnovers within a single minute. Oregon went on a short 8-0 run in that span and shrunk Stanford’s lead to six. The Cardinal recovered, however, and stretched the lead back to 16 by the end of the half.

The second half saw Stanford only grow its lead once to 35 (with 9:49 left in the game and the score in favor of Stanford 78-43) and a second time to 37 (with 3:09 left and the score 92-55). The Cardinal finished shooting 63% from the field as they also made six threes in each half, totaling 20 attempts (60% from beyond the arc). The best free throw shooting team in the conference was overmatched both at the line by the Cardinal and on the boards–by large margins.

For Stanford, Dorian Pickens scored a total of 25 points tonight (three points shy of career high) as he shot 9-11 from the field, 5-6 from beyond the arc, and collected four rebounds.

A career night for Pickens became very special early on when he scored his 1000th career point at Stanford in the early going. Sitting at 999 entering the game, he joined Reid Travis, who accomplished the feat earlier this season, in the exclusive club, becoming the 46th Stanford men’s basketball player to do it.

Kezie Okpala collected 20 points, going 9-12 from the field, 2-4 from three, five rebounds, and four assists.

Not to be outdone was Travis, though, who added 17 points and seven boards in 28 minutes.

Oregon’s Troy Brown Jr. had 15 points and six rebounds, Elijah Brown had 10 points and did not attempt a free throw even though he has made 52/54 this year, Paul White had 10 points and a rebound, and Victor Bailey Jr. had 13 points, nailing two out of his three triples.

What’s Next?
ORE: Oregon will host the Washington schools, face the LA schools on the road, and then play host to the Arizona schools to close out the month.

STAN: Stanford will embark on a three-game road trip, visiting Utah, Colorado, and Cal. They will then host the Washington schools to close out the month.

Stanford Cardinal Men’s Basketball Podcast: After beating OSU, can Cardinal get back on track again vs. Ducks tonight?

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By Matt Harrington

PALO ALTO–The Stanford Cardinal (12-11) started this two-game homestand with a win past the Oregon State Beavers (11-10) 80-71. Stanford head coach Jerod Haase came into the game last Thursday with some expectations. It had been some time since the Cardinal won a ball game dropping three straight and winning five straight before the skid. The thing that Haase is trying to teach his players is that when you have a big lead hold onto it and put on the gas.

There was a point in the game that it was 56-48 and it looked like Oregon State was going to be let back into that game, but Stanford battled and kept the game going wire to wire. That was a big win for them Thursday against the Beavers, they got loses in UCLA and USC in the Southland. They had to right the ship in a hurry after OSU ran off two 9-0 scores, but the Cardinal got back their lead up to 1 with three minutes left after Kezie Okpqala’s floater shot.

Matt Harrington does the Stanford Cardinal Podcasts each week and Joey Friedman has coverage of tonight’s Oregon-Stanford game at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

 

 

Stanford bests Oregon State 80-71, snaps three game skid

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By Joey Friedman
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February 1, 2018

PALO ALTO–The Stanford Cardinal (12-11, 6-4) hosted and beat the Oregon State Beavers (11-10, 3-6) to the tune of 80-71 in their only matchup of the year. Stanford led the whole game.

Stanford came into the game with three straight losses against #14 Arizona and both of the LA schools (USC and UCLA) after going 5-1 to start conference play and beating #16 Arizona State at home. Oregon State had gone an honest 3-5 in Pac-12 play with wins against Oregon, UCLA, and Colorado (none of whom were ranked).

Stanford jumped out to a commanding 20-3 lead early with help from five quick turnovers by Oregon State after starting the game with 12 straight points and holding OSU scoreless in the first four minutes. Junior forward Reid Travis scored 11 of Stanford’s first 14 points.

With 12:32 left in the first half, Stanford freshman Daejon Davis added to his team-high 50 floor burns with a hustle play near half court after he tipped the ball away from Stephen Johnson Jr. of OSU in between the circles of OSU’s front court. He was immediately rewarded with his effort with a beautiful feed by Travis which Davis converted for two points and by an emphatic response from Stanford head coach Jerod Haase who coined the “floor burner” phrase in his collegiate days at Kansas.

Stanford led at the half by a score of 43-28 as they shot 62.1% from the field on the best scoring defense in the Pac 12 in Oregon State.

In the second half, Oregon State was able to put together a couple of 9-0 runs. They did so on the backs of junior forward Drew Eubanks (who had a 3 point play on a layup with 8 minutes left in the game to bring OSU to within six points of the Cardinal, the smallest margin of the night), sophomore forward Tres Tinkle, freshman guard Ethan Thompson (fouled out), and junior guard Stephen Thompson Jr.. All four scored in double digits. Tres Tinkle is still the only Pac-12 player who has scored in double figures in every game this season.

Stanford recovered, however, and lifted their lead back up to 15 with three minutes left after a Kezie Okpala floater.

For the Cardinal, Reid Travis finished with 24 points (21 in the first half), going 10-14 from the field and making both 3’s he attempted. Daejon Davis added 12 points while going 8-12 from the charity stripe. Okpala finished with 9 points as Da Silva and White each contributed 8. Travis and Humphrey (4 points in 21 minutes) both fouled out.

Stanford’s greatest point margin over the Beavers was 20 points, which they reached once in each half. They finished with a 56% mark from the field as OSU shot a 49% clip. Both teams combined for 39 turnovers, OSU owned 21 of them. Stanford took far more advantage of OSU’s mistakes, however, by collecting 28 points off OSU’s turnover while Oregon State collected 12 fewer points off the Cardinal’s turnovers. Both teams made five 3’s as Stanford finished with 12 attempts and OSU finished with 13.

Dorian Pickens needed 16 points tonight to become the 46th member of Stanford’s 1000 point club after Reid Travis joined the club in December and Brittany McPhee joined the women’s 1000 point club six days ago. He finished with 15 points going 4-10 from the field, 2-6 from beyond the arc, and 5-6 from the free throw line in 37 minutes.

The Beavers have the all time series lead (75-71), but Stanford has dominated recently winning 9 of the last 11 games just as they have dominated at Maples–winning 22 of the last 24 meetings on The Farm.

What’s Next?

STAN: Stanford will host Oregon on Saturday (2/3/18). Then, the Cardinal will travel to Utah and Colorado before they travel to Berkeley for a rematch with the Golden Bears.

OSU: Oregon State will travel to Berkeley next for a game on Saturday before hosting the Washington schools in Corvallis.

Pac-12 Hoops: Bruins Roll Past the Cardinal 89-73

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By Daniel Dullum
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Saturday, January 27, 2018

The UCLA Bruins, behind the one-two offensive punch of Aaron Holiday and Kris Wilkes, cruised to an 89-73 Pac-12 men’s basketball victory over the Stanford Cardinal at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California.

Holiday led the Bruins (15-7 overall, 6-4 Pac-12) with 21 points and Wilkes added 18. Thomas Welsh, who suffered a knee injury in UCLA’s win over California on Thursday, was back in the starting lineup and produced 12 points and 10 rebounds. Bruins point guard Jaylen Hands added nine points and 10 assists.

Daejon Davis paced the Cardinal (11-11, 5-4) with 23 points, 10 assists and four rebounds. Dorian Pickens scored 16 points, Michael Humphrey had 12 points, and Reid Travis led Stanford with seven rebounds while scoring 11 points.

Davis has scored a combined 45 points against UCLA this season. He posted 22 points in the Cardinal’s first meeting with the Bruins.

After winning five of its first six conference games, Stanford lost its third straight Pac-12 contest.

The Bruins took a 38-27 lead in the first half, sparked by a 14-0 run that included seven points from Holiday. After the halftime break, UCLA built a 22-point lead with 11:40 remaining, doing most of the damage in transition.

UCLA outshot the Cardinal 53 percent to 46 percent, and made 53 percent of its 3-point attempts. The Bruins also sank 92 percent of its free throws, and held a 33-28 rebounding edge.

The loss squares the regular season series between the two schools. Earlier, on Jan. 4, the Bruins lost to Stanford in double-overtime. UCLA has won its last 12 home games against the Cardinal.

Up Next: Stanford returns home this week for home games against the Oregon schools, hosting Oregon State on Thursday at Maples Pavilion. Tip-off is at 8 p.m.