TEMPE, Ariz. – Four Cardinal scored in double figures, but No. 24 Stanford went cold in the fourth quarter and dropped its first Pac-12 game of the season at No. 25 Arizona State on Sunday afternoon, 73-66.
Stanford (9-7, 3-1) battled back from a 10-point second-half deficit when Brittany McPhee and Kiana Williams scored on consecutive possessions to tie the game at 50 with just under nine minutes remaining. Arizona State called timeout to stop the 10-0 run, Reili Richardson's basket broke the tie following the stoppage and Charnea Johnson-Chapman followed with two inside buckets.
The Cardinal would make only three of its next 18 shots until hitting its last three in the final 24 seconds with the game already decided.
Johnson-Chapman scored a career-high 16 points for Arizona State (13-3, 4-0), which made 10-of-18 free throws in the fourth quarter to seal the win. Reili Richardson added 11 points.
Williams had 14 points, DiJonai Carrington had 13, McPhee 12 and Marta Sniezek 10 for the Cardinal, which was outrebounded 47-24. The Sun Devils clobbered Stanford in second-chance points, 22-2.
Stanford was down 5-2 before making five in a row, including a 3-pointer and pair of layups from Williams, and eventually led by as many as 10 in the first, 17-7. Williams scored 10 of her team-high 14 in the first quarter.
Arizona State dominated the second. The Sun Devils closed the period on an 11-0 run, held the Cardinal scoreless over the final five minutes heading into the halftime and led 35-27 at the break.
A Sniezek 3-pointer started the Stanford spurt across the third and fourth quarters and the junior point guard made a career-high three from behind the arc for 10 points, her fifth career game in double figures.
The Cardinal sent Arizona State to the line 39 times on 27 personal fouls, the program's most since 2008. Stanford's 24 rebounds were also its fewest in a game in three years, since a 22-board performance against the Sun Devils in 2015.
