STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford men's basketball continued its high scoring start at Maples Pavilion in an 88-64 win over San Diego. The Cardinal improves to 4-1 at home on the season.
Brandon Angel scored a career-high 25 points on 9-for-13 shooting, while also grabbing eight rebounds and dishing a trio of assists. Michael Jones scored 19 points, including four makes from 3-point range, while Spencer Jones pitched in 16 points, six rebounds and three steals. The Cardinal offense shot 53.4 percent from the floor while the defense recorded a season-best 11 steals.
Stanford led from wire to wire after Angel's 3-pointer opened the scoring, and the Cardinal quickly led by double digits, 17-7, after 7:35. Angel scored 15 of his 25 in the opening period, and the Cardinal led by as many as 17 over the first 20 minutes after an alley-oop dunk by Maxime Raynaud off the feed from Jared Bynum. The Cardinal led at the half, 43-27.
The Toreros (6-3) could only get the deficit as low as nine following a brief run to open the second half, cutting Stanford's advantage to 49-40. Stanford immediately pushed the margin back to 17 over the subsequent three minutes, and eventually led by as many as 26 points in the half. The Cardinal held San Diego without a field goal over the final six minutes.
Stanford returns to action following a two-week break for finals on Sunday, Dec. 17 against Idaho. The 2 p.m. tip will air on Pac-12 Network.