Nov. 24, 1999
By ROB GLOSTER
AP Sports Writer
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) - It was little more than a warmup for Saturday'sshowdown against No. 2 Auburn.
Freshman Casey Jacobsen had 15 points and No. 9 Stanford opened a 27-pointhalftime lead in a 72-31 win Wednesday night over Cal-State Bakersfield,playing a Division I opponent for the first time in 13 years.
Ryan Mendez added 13 points as Stanford (4-0) got in a light workout inpreparation for the battle against Auburn at the John Wooden Classic inAnaheim.
"They weren't as good as I expected. Things are going to be a lot differentagainst Auburn," Stanford coach Mike Montgomery said. "They thought theycould go to their big men, but that just didn't work against us. Our insideguys dominated them."
Freshman center Curtis Borchardt had a school-record six blocks forStanford, which hit 50 percent of its shots and held the Roadrunners to 19percent shooting.
"This was a good test for us before Auburn, because this is the same typeof team as Auburn - physical - but on a different level," Jacobsen said."Auburn is not going to try to outfinesse us, they're going to try to bowl usover."
Ron Selleaze had 12 points for CS Bakersfield (1-2), which has never beatena Pac-10 opponent. Lovell Brown, the Roadrunners' top scorer last season,returned from an ankle sprain but was held scoreless in 13 minutes.
"I think we wore ourselves out on defense against them, and that affectedus in our offensive patterns," CS-Bakersfield coach Henry Clark said. "Wecouldn't set up as well as we would like. We seemed to get the open shots, butnothing went down. And they shot very well from the outside, especiallyMendez."
The Cardinal played without Mark Madsen, who strained his right hamstring inthe second half of a season-opening win over Duke in the Coaches vs. CancerTournament at Madison Square Garden in New York. Madsen has not played sincethat game, and is expected to be sidelined through at least mid-December.
But Stanford hardly missed Madsen, as twins Jarron and Jason Collinsdominated the middle and the Cardinal made six 3-pointers in the first half tobuild a 42-15 halftime lead.
Stanford scored the first seven points of the game and held CS-Bakersfieldwithout a basket for the opening 4:06, building a 12-3 lead during that time.The Cardinal led 21-11 midway through the first half, then used an 18-0 run toblow the game open.
CS-Bakersfield went scoreless for 7:02 during that run, which began withJulius Barnes and David Moseley hitting 3-pointers and included two straight3-pointers by Jacobsen, who was making his home debut.
Stanford extended its lead to as many as 42 points in the second half.