February 13, 1999
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) - Brian Scalabrine hadn't hit a 3-pointer all season. When he finally got one, it helped unranked Southern California upset No. 6 Stanford.
Scalabrine led the Trojans with 22 points, but none were more significant than his 3-pointer in overtime. The 6-foot-9 Scalabrine, who was 0-for-4 from 3-point range going into the game, had to shoot over Stanford forward Mark Madsen.
Brian Scalabrine led the upset with 22 points.
"I'm not a terrible shooter from there," he explained. "But a shot over a 6-foot-8 Madsen like that is a lot of luck."
Scalabrine's 3-pointer with 1:15 left in overtime, along with two foul shots with 56 seconds to go, put the Trojans ahead 81-74, and they held on to beat Stanford 86-82 Saturday afternoon.
Freshman guard Brandon Granville had 21 points and seven assists for the Trojans (12-10, 4-9 Pacific-10 Conference), who had lost eight of nine going into the game.
Stanford (20-5, 10-2), which trailed for most of the game and couldn't come closer than two points in overtime, was led by Arthur Lee with 22 points and Tim Young with 19 points and nine rebounds.
The Cardinal, behind 38-33 at halftime, weren't really in the game until the second half, and by then USC was riding on momentum. Stanford has trailed its last seven games at the half.
"Our mental side of things is sorry right now," coach Mike Montgomery said. "They came out and played it straight up. They flat outperformed us."
Stanford struggled against the quicker Trojans throughout the game, but started to mount a comeback midway through the second half -- thanks in part to Southern Cal's mistakes.
The Trojans led 59-48 with 10:42 to go, but Lee made six straight free throws and added a 3-pointer to close the gap 59-57.
Southern Cal clung to the lead until Young's layup with 4:09 left tied it at 63, and his added free throw gave Stanford the lead for the first time in the game.
Granville put USC back ahead 65-64, but Lee answered with a basket of his own to give the Cardinal the one-point advantage with 3:29 left.
The two teams wrestled for the lead the rest of the way, with Granville's 3-point attempt falling short, leaving the score knotted at 70 at the end of regulation.
USC took a 76-70 lead before Lee and Kris Weems each hit a set of free throws to bring Stanford to 76-74. Scalabrine then hit his clutch 3-pointer and added two free throws before Stanford closed to 82-80 on Lee's layup at 25 seconds.
Again Scalabrine sank a pair of free throws before Young made it 84-82 with four seconds left. USC's Elias Ayuso completed the scoring with two free throws.
"Stanford came back in the second half, as a great team will do," USC coach Henry Bibby said. "But we outlasted them. It's a tribute to our guys."
Madsen, who fouled out, had 15 points and 12 rebounds for the Cardinal.
"I felt like we were flat. In fact, we've been flat the last few games," Madsen said. "USC, like everybody else, took a great shot at us, and they won."
Ayuso added 17 points for the Trojans and Sam Clancy had 12 points and 10 rebounds.
Southern Cal broke away from a 14-12 lead with a 13-2 run to take a 27-14 advantage on Scalabrine's basket with 18:19 left.
Stanford's Kris Weems almost single-handedly put the Cardinal back in the game, scoring six points in a 12-2 Cardinal run that narrowed the gap to 31-28 with 3:07 left before halftime.
USC, which led by as many as 13 during the game, had not beaten Stanford since the 1991-92 season.