LAS VEGAS – Chloe Clardy hit a driving layup with two tenths of a second left and Stanford beat Colorado State on the second day of the Resorts World Classic on Saturday night, 62-60.
Stanford was down 53-45 with 6:40 to go before going on a 13-0 run over the next 5:02 to flip the game. Courtney Ogden had a mini 7-0 spurt of her own right in the middle and when she hit a 3-pointer to put the Cardinal up 54-53 and force a Ram timeout with 3:10 to go, Stanford had its first lead in nearly 10 minutes.
Clardy capped the run when she swiped the ball from Lexus Bargesser and took it coast-to-coast for the breakaway lay-in with 1:38 remaining, forcing another CSU timeout.
Down five with 72 seconds to go, the Rams tied it when Madelyn Bragg made a layup with 7.8 seconds on the clock. Stanford called a timeout to advance and set up Clardy’s heroics.
Ogden was huge in the fourth for the Cardinal. She scored nine points on 4-of-5 shooting, all in the game’s final five minutes.
Nunu Agara led Stanford with 18 points and six rebounds. Lara Somfai had nine points and a career-high 16 boards. It’s the best single-game rebounding performance for a Cardinal freshman since Kaylee Johnson had 17 against Washington on Feb. 2, 2015.
Carly Amborn was huge off the bench for Stanford. She hit a one-dribble, step back 3-pointer for the last bucket of the first half to pull her team within two. She also hit a driving jumper off glass midway through the third quarter to tie the game 30-30.
The win was a big one for the Cardinal, which suffered a disappointing first loss of the season the night before to FGCU. Colorado State came into the night 7-0 and one of the nation’s 30 remaining undefeated teams.
Stanford returns home to host Tennessee on Wednesday, Dec. 3 as part of the ACC/SEC Challenge on ESPN2.