Feb. 13, 1997
Cardinal Snaps Three Game Losing Skid With 87-54 Win Over OSU
STANFORD, Calif. -- Kris Weems scored 17 points and Arthur Lee added 13 as22nd-ranked Stanford avenged an earlier conference upset with an87-54 rout of Pac-10 rival Oregon State.
Stanford (14-6, 7-5 Pac-10) snapped its three-game losing streakand made up for an 86-77 defeat to the Beavers on January 18th.
Oregon State (6-15, 2-10) continued its woeful road play, losingits 17th straight road contest and 13th consecutive conferencematchup away from home. The Beavers have dropped six of theirlast seven and haven't broken the 80-point barrier in nearly twomonths.
Oregon State was held to just four points in a 10-minute spanbridging the first and second halves. This continues theBeavers' trend of prolonged scoring droughts during conferencematchups. In at least 10 other Pac-10 games this season, OregonState has gone cold from the field for at least a five-minutespan.
The game was tied at 19 following a free throw by Oregon State'sTerrill Woods with 4:37 left in the half. But the Cardinalresponded by going on 10-2 run to close the half. Brevin Knightbegan the burst with a pair of free throws and David Moesleyfollowed with six straight points. A layup by Mark Seatoncapped the burst and gave Stanford a 29-21 lead at the break.
In the second half Stanford came out hot with a 16-2 burst thatbroke the game open. Lee hit a pair of three-pointers and Weemsadded five points during the spurt.
The Beavers made just 8-of-30 field goal attempts and wereoutrebounded 22-12 in the first half.
OREGON ST (54) fg ft rb min m-a m-a o-t a pf tpWoods 23 1-4 4-6 1-4 2 4 6C Benjamin 18 5-11 5-7 0-1 0 3 16Marshall 24 1-2 2-2 0-2 0 3 4Grady 22 2-5 0-0 2-4 0 1 5Cunningham 23 2-5 5-7 1-1 3 3 9Bickerstaff 20 2-4 1-2 2-3 1 2 5Riggs 17 0-1 0-0 0-1 1 0 0Vaden 12 1-3 0-0 0-0 0 0 3S Benjamin 17 0-3 0-0 1-2 2 1 0Knight 10 0-0 0-0 1-2 0 1 0Edwards 8 2-3 0-2 0-1 0 2 6Petrovic 6 0-0 0-0 0-2 0 1 0_______________________________________________TOTALS 200 16-41 17-26 8-23 9 21 54_______________________________________________Percentages: FG-.390, FT-.654. 3-Point Goals:5-12, .417 (C Benjamin 1-3, Grady 1-2, Vaden 1-3,S Benjamin 0-1, Edwards 2-3). Team rebounds:None. Blocked shots: 3 (Woods, C Benjamin,Knight). Turnovers: 23 (Cunningham 5, Grady 4,Knight 3, Woods 3, Marshall 2, S Benjamin 2,Bickerstaff, Edwards, Riggs, Vaden). Steals: 6(Bickerstaff, C Benjamin, Cunningham, S Benjamin,Vaden, Woods).STANFORD (87) fg ft rb min m-a m-a o-t a pf tpSauer 13 1-2 0-0 0-3 1 0 2Weems 25 6-11 2-2 1-1 0 0 17Young 13 1-2 0-0 0-1 1 4 2Lee 22 3-6 5-6 3-3 1 1 13Knight 27 2-10 5-6 0-5 11 3 10Jackson 17 3-5 2-2 3-5 2 2 9Madsen 15 1-1 0-0 1-2 0 4 2Van Elswyk 19 2-3 0-0 3-5 1 3 5Mendez 12 1-6 0-0 1-2 1 1 3Seaton 16 4-5 2-2 3-6 1 0 10Moseley 8 3-10 1-1 2-2 0 1 9Tshionyi 5 0-1 0-0 1-3 0 0 0Thompson 2 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 3Burge 2 0-1 0-0 2-2 0 0 0Wente 2 0-0 2-2 0-0 1 1 2Mathieson 2 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0_______________________________________________TOTALS 200 28-66 19-21 20-40 20 20 87_______________________________________________Percentages: FG-.424, FT-.905. 3-Point Goals:12-30, .400 (Sauer 0-1, Weems 3-4, Lee 2-3,Knight 1-5, Jackson 1-2, Van Elswyk 1-2, Mendez1-6, Moseley 2-5, Tshionyi 0-1, Thompson 1-1).Team rebounds: 3. Blocked shots: 1 (Van Elswyk).Turnovers: 16 (Knight 5, Lee 3, Mendez 3, Burge,Madsen, Moseley, Sauer, Weems). Steals: 9 (Knight3, Seaton 3, Lee, Moseley, Young).__________________________________Oregon St 21 33 - 54Stanford 29 58 - 87__________________________________Technical fouls: None. A: 5,882. Officials:Jerry White, Terry Christman, David Sparkes.