PROVO, Utah – Courtney Ogden scored a career-high 26, but Stanford’s season ended with a 76-61 loss at BYU in the quarterfinals of the WBIT.
The Cardinal was down just one, 53-52, after Chloe Clardy followed her own 3-point miss, stole the ball from Delaney Gibb, laid it in while being fouled and made the free throw with 9:25 to go in the fourth quarter.
But after Clardy’s 3-point play, BYU would go on a 15-0 run over the next 5:54 to put the game out of reach. Stanford would go more than six minutes without scoring and missed 13 consecutive field goals until Ogden nailed a jumper in the paint with 2:42 left. By that point Stanford was down 14, 70-56. The Cardinal shot just 4-of-22 in the fourth quarter (.182) and was 1-of-11 from deep (.091).
The game was close for the first 31 minutes. BYU was ahead for the majority and grew five separate eight-point leads, but none larger. The Cardinal closed the third quarter on a 6-0 run over the final two minutes and was down just one heading into the fourth, 50-49.
Ogden scored her career-high 26 on 10-of-19 shooting. The junior led Stanford averaging 18.3 points shooting 53.8 percent from the floor in three WBIT games. Clardy had 17 points and three steals and Nunu Agara scored 12 and pulled down a team-high seven rebounds.
BYU had 53 rebounds, including 17 offensive. Delaney Gibb led the Cougars with 27 points.