GAMEDAY Mens Basketball
Stanford 88, Arizona 79
(AP Photo/Josie Lepe)
By HENRY SCHULMAN
Associated Press
STANFORD, Calif. - Spencer Jones scored all 18 of his points in the second half for Stanford and played a key role in neutralizing Pac-12 leading scorer Azuolas Tubelis, as the Cardinal stunned No. 4 Arizona 88-79.
Stanford (11-14, 5-9 Pac-12) beat a ranked team for the first time this year and a top-five team for the second time in two seasons. Arizona (22-4, 11-4), hoping to stay a half-game behind UCLA for the conference lead, had a seven-game win snapped.
Courtney Ramey scored a season- and game-high 26 points for Arizona, which could not overcome Tubelis' worst game of the season. The junior forward, who had 40 points against Oregon on Feb. 2 and had averaged a near double-double this season (20.9 points, 9.7 rebounds) to lead the conference in both categories, was held to four points.
Tubelis did not have a rebound and committed four fouls.
Stanford's Michael O'Connell scored a team-high 22 points, helping the Cardinal outshoot the Wildcats 61% to 46% from the field. Brandon Angel added 14 points for Stanford, Maxime Reynaud had 13 points and Harrison Ingram contributed 12 points and a game-high nine rebounds.
Pelle Larsson and Cedric Henderson Jr. scored 12 points apiece for the Wildcats.
Jones took command of a back-and-forth game a third of the way through the second half, scoring all 13 of Stanford's points during a nearly seven-minute stretch that ended with a layup that gave the Cardinal a 67-66 lead with 7:35 remaining.
A 3-point play by Angel extended Stanford's lead to 70-66 before a Ramey 3-pointer cut the lead to one.
But the Cardinal scored the next nine points, punctuating the run with a wide-open 3-pointer by O'Connell that extended their lead to 79-69 with 3:28 left.
February 11, 2023
| Arizona | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| C. Henderson Jr. | F | 33 | 4-11 | 2-2 | 2-6 | 3-5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12 |
| A. Tubelis | F | 17 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| O. Ballo | C | 27 | 3-5 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| C. Ramey | G | 37 | 9-18 | 0-0 | 8-16 | 1-6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 26 |
| K. Kriisa | G | 33 | 3-10 | 1-1 | 3-10 | 1-1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| P. Larsson | 31 | 4-9 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 2-6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 12 | |
| K. Boswell | 23 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | |
| Totals | 201 | 28-61 (.459) |
9-11 (.818) |
14-35 (.400) |
9-26 | 17 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 79 | |
| Stanford | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| B. Angel | F | 34 | 4-7 | 5-5 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14 |
| S. Jones | F | 34 | 8-15 | 0-0 | 2-5 | 2-6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 18 |
| H. Ingram | F | 31 | 5-10 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 2-9 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| M. Raynaud | F | 20 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 2-5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 13 |
| M. O'Connell | G | 30 | 6-10 | 7-12 | 3-5 | 2-3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 22 |
| M. Jones | 29 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | |
| I. Silva | 12 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| M. Murrell | 11 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Totals | 201 | 33-54 (.611) |
12-19 (.632) |
10-18 (.556) |
10-34 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 19 | 88 | |
