Jan. 23, 1997
No. 17 Cardinal Gets Better of Huskies, 87-67
STANFORD, Calif. -- Brevin Knight scored 26 points and Kris Weems hit threethree-pointers during a decisive run to open the second half as17th-ranked Stanford pulled away for a 78-67 victory overWashington in a Pac-10 Conference battle.
Tim Young added 20 points and seven rebounds for the Cardinal(12-3, 5-2 Pac-10), who have won seven of the last eightmeetings with Washington and 14 of the last 17.
"It was obvious that we played much better in the second half,"said Stanford coach Mike Montgomery. "We didn't have muchrhythm in the first half. (Washington) had to feel good aboutthemselves with only a 27 percent shooting in the first half. In the second half, we had defensive intensity. Brevin was verygood. He can't do everything by himself. I'm trying to getother players to take the pressure off Brevin."
The Huskies (10-4, 3-3) battled to a 29-29 halftime tie, despiteshooting just under 29 percent from the field.
"I have to give Stanford a tremendous amount of credit for thegame they played," said Washington coach Bob Bender. "They madea great run at the start of the second half. They had themomentum. Brevin and Tim are just hard to control. But I wasproud of our kids. They battled back and never quit. We justgot beat by a good team and we should learn from this game."
But Stanford scored 20 of the first 25 points in the second halfto take control. Weems' three-pointer 13 seconds into thesecond half put the Cardinal ahead to stay, 32-29. Washingtonclosed within one on a jumper by Donald Watts, but Young hit ashort hook shot, Weems sank a jumper and Rich Jackson added alayup to put Stanford ahead, 38-31 with 17:46 remaining.
Weems, who finished with 11 points, hit consecutivethree-pointers and a dunk by Young opened a 49-34 lead with justover 14 minutes to play. The Huskies got no closer than eightthe rest of the way and trailed by as many as 19.
"Tim gave us a good inside game," Montgomery said. "(Mark)Madsen did a nice job coming off the bench. While it was a nicewin, we have to improve. Again, we have to have some of theother players step up and take the pressure off of Brevin."
Jamie Booker scored 20 points and Mark Sanford had 15 forWashington, which shot just 38.6 percent from the field(22-for-57). Stanford hit nearly 51 percent of its shots.
The Cardinal established a 21-14 lead with 8:27 to go in thefirst half, but the Huskies got back in the game by scoring sixstraight points. Booker's three-pointer with 1:41 left gaveWashington its first lead, 27-26.
WASHINGTON (67) fg ft rb min m-a m-a o-t a pf tpSanford 37 5-17 5-7 2-5 4 3 15Watts 31 4-11 4-6 4-7 0 1 13Macculloch 30 1-6 4-5 3-6 1 5 6Thompson 20 0-0 0-0 0-1 3 1 0Booker 36 7-11 2-3 2-8 1 2 20Wooten 20 4-7 0-0 0-0 1 4 9Femerling 14 1-1 2-2 1-1 0 5 4Luton 10 0-4 0-0 1-2 0 1 0Walcott 1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0Wheeler 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 0_______________________________________________TOTALS 200 22-57 17-23 13-31 11 22 67_______________________________________________Percentages: FG-.386, FT-.739. 3-Point Goals:6-12, .500 (Sanford 0-3, Watts 1-2, Booker 4-5,Wooten 1-1, Luton 0-1). Team rebounds: 1. Blockedshots: 5 (Sanford 3, Femerling 2). Turnovers: 13(Booker 3, Thompson 2, Watts 2, Femerling, Luton,Macculloch, Sanford, Wooten). Steals: 4 (Thompson2, Femerling, Macculloch).STANFORD (78) fg ft rb min m-a m-a o-t a pf tpSauer 17 0-3 2-4 1-2 0 2 2Jackson 29 2-3 0-0 3-5 2 1 4Young 32 5-10 10-11 2-7 1 2 20Weems 24 4-8 0-0 0-2 2 2 11Knight 38 10-17 5-8 0-5 8 3 26Madsen 19 4-6 0-0 3-4 0 5 8Moseley 9 1-4 0-0 0-1 0 2 3Mendez 6 0-1 0-0 1-2 0 0 0Seaton 8 0-0 1-4 0-0 0 1 1Lee 14 1-1 0-0 0-5 1 0 2Van Elswyk 4 0-0 1-2 0-0 0 2 1_______________________________________________TOTALS 200 27-53 19-29 10-33 14 20 78_______________________________________________Percentages: FG-.509, FT-.655. 3-Point Goals:5-10, .500 (Weems 3-5, Knight 1-2, Moseley 1-3).Team rebounds: 4. Blocked shots: 5 (Young 2,Jackson, Moseley, Seaton). Turnovers: 14 (Knight5, Van Elswyk 2, Young 2, Madsen, Mendez, Sauer,Seaton, Weems). Steals: 6 (Knight 2, Jackson,Mendez, Sauer, Weems).__________________________________Washington 29 38 - 67Stanford 29 49 - 78__________________________________Technical fouls: None. A: 6,632. Officials:Scott Garibaldi, Jerry White, Gabutero.