College basketball: Stanford women lose; Cal, Stanford, St. Mary’s men win
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Chloe Moore-McNeil scored 21 points and Yarden Garzon put up 18 points and grabbed eight rebounds as Indiana rebounded from back-to-back losses to Harvard and Butler to knock off No. 24 Stanford 79-66 on Sunday afternoon.
The game was the second of a home-and-home series between the schools that began in the final season of Indiana Hall of Famer and 1975 Indiana graduate Tara VanDerveer's 38-year career at Stanford.
The Hoosiers (2-2) took the lead at the end of the first quarter after Moore-McNeil drilled a 3 to tie the game and Garzon scored at the basket to make it 24-22 and they did not trail the rest of the way.
Jzaniya Harriel hit two free throws to cut Stanford's deficit to 26-24 with eight minutes left in the half but Indiana responded with a 14-0 run to lead 40-26. Mary Ashley Stevenson's jumper with four seconds left in the half left the Cardinal down 42-31 at the break.
Elena Bosgana's three-point play with 8:34 left in the third quarter trimmed the Cardinal's deficit to 43-34 and Nunu Agara's layup two minutes later cut the deficit to eight. But Garzon hit back-to-back 3-pointers midway through the quarter and Moore-McNeil added a layup to push the Indiana lead back to 17. Henna Sandvik's two free throws with under three minutes left made it 57-38, the Hoosiers' largest margin.
The Hoosiers shot 50% from the floor until a missed late 3-pointer. Indiana was 25-for-51 (49%), including 9-for-19 from beyond the arc, and converted 20 of 24 from the line. Moore-McNeil finished with 21 points with four steals. Shay Ciezki had 19 points on 7-for-13 shooting and Garzon had 18 points with eight rebounds and three assists.
Agara led Stanford (4-1) with 15 points and four assists. Brooke Demetre scored 14 points and grabbed seven rebounds and Courtney Ogden and Chloe Clardy each added 10 points off the bench. The Cardinal shot 40% from the field (26-for-65), including 2-for-11 from 3-point range.
UC Santa Barbara 86, San Jose State 76: Senior guard Alyssa Marin made 22 of 25 free-throw tries on her way to a game-high 31 points to lead the Gauchos past the Spartans at the Thunderdome in Santa Barbara.
UCSB (2-2) finished 34-for-40 from the line, making more free throws than the Spartans (2-2) attempted (19-for-29).
Sydni Summers came off the bench to score 17 for SJSU, the majority of her scoring coming on three 3-pointers in the game's final minute.
Andrej Stojakovic scored 20 points and Jovan Blacksher Jr. 19, and Joshua Ola-Joseph made several plays down the stretch to help Cal beat host USC 71-66 in a matchup between former conference rivals.
Cal (3-1), now in the ACC, and the Trojans (Big Ten) played as nonconference opponents for the first time since 1921. The Golden Bears, who have won back-to-back games against USC following 10 consecutive losses against the Trojans, lead the all-time series 138-134.
Cal earned its first nonconference road win since it beat Seattle 81-59 on Dec. 19, 2017.
Desmond Claude hit a jumper before Saint Thomas made back-to-back baskets in the paint to give USC (3-1) a 64-63 lead with 6:30 to play but the Trojans made 1 of 10 from the field thereafter as Cal scored eight of the final 10 points.
BJ Omot made with a 3-pointer with 4:54 left and Ola-Joseph scored in the lane to give the Bears a four-point lead with 1:51 remaining. Ola-Joseph grabbed an offensive rebound before Stojakovic made two free throws with 21 seconds left and then blocked a shot by Claude.
Blacksher made 1 of 2 from the free-throw line to cap the scoring just before the buzzer.
St. Mary's 77, Nebraska 74: Mikey Lewis hit two free throws with five seconds left to give the Gaels a three-point lead, Brice Williams missed a 3-point attempt at the buzzer to tie and St. Mary's won the neutral-site game played in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Lewis hit a jumper and knocked down a 3 with 4:13 left to give St. Mary's a double-digit lead, 73-63, but the Cornhuskers clawed back behind four free throws from Williams, a tip-in and 1 of 2 free-throw tries by Berke Buyuktuncel, and a Rollie Worster layup to make it 75-72 with under a minute left. Williams hit two free throws with six seconds left to cut the margin to one.
Lewis led St. Mary's (4-0) with 23 points, four rebounds, three assists and four steals off the bench. Paulius Murauskas had 16 points, six boards and three assists and Luke Barrett added 15 -points. Mitchell Saxen turned in a double-double with a dozen points and a dozen rebounds, leaving him just one point shy of becoming the 40th player to reach 1,000 in his St. Mary's career. The Gaels shot 42.6% from the field (26-for-61), including 11-for-23 from beyond the arc, but went 14-for-25 from the free-throw line.
Nebraska (3-1) converted 25 of 29 free-throw attempts to fuel its comeback attempt. Williams was 11-for-11 from the line and scored a season-high 28 points. Buyuktuncel was 5 of 6 from the line and finished with 15 points with three steals and three blocked shots. Worster and Andrew Morgan each added 10 points.
Stanford 79, UC Davis 65: Maxime Raynaud posted his fourth-straight double-double with a career-high 33 points and 14 rebounds as the Cardinal knocked off the Aggies at Maples Pavilion.
The 7-footer from Paris hit three first-half 3-pointers and his tip-in with a second left put the Cardinal (4-0) in front 41-23 at intermission. He topped 1,000 career points with a second-half 3-pointer.
Raynaud was 13-for-26 from the field, including 5-for-10 from behind the arc. Jaylen Blakes added 17 points with four assists and two steals. The Cardinal shot 37.3% from the field (25-for-67), including 3-for-18 from distance by players other than Raynaud.
TY Johnson finished with 29 points to lead UC Davis (2-2). Pablo Tamba added 13 points and five rebounds and Leo DeBruhl added 11 points and six assists.
UC Santa Barbara 64, San Jose State 59: Cole Anderson scored 18 points to lead the Gauchos past the host Spartans.
All of Anderson's points came on 3-pointers as he made 6 of 8 from beyond the arc for UCSB (4-0).
