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STANFORD, Calif. (AP) -- Daejon Davis scored a season-high 20 points with six rebounds and five assists in helping Stanford beat California, 68-52, in the Pac-12 Conference opener for both teams Thursday night.

Tyrell Terry added 14 points and five rebounds for the Cardinal (12-2), who beat Cal at home for the first time in three years. Bryce Wills scored 10 points.

Grant Anticevich scored 16 points and had 10 rebounds to lead the Bears (6-8), who lost their fourth straight.

California's two leading scorers Matt Bradley and Kareem South were a combined 2-of-17 shooting for eight points early in the second half. Bradley finished with 13 points and has reached double figures in all but one game.

Bradley's layup midway through the second half brought the Bears within 44-35 but Davis scored the next five points and Spencer Jones hit a 3-pointer to extend Stanford's lead.

The Cardinal were coming off a 72-56 loss to Kansas, in which it missed its first 14 shots, but had won their first eight home contests.

Stanford missed 10 of its first 12 shots and then made 11 of its next 19, including a Jaiden Delaire 3-pointer with four seconds left, putting the Cardinal ahead 32-21 at halftime.

Stanford hosts the Washington schools next week, beginning with the Huskies on Thursday on FS1.