Dec. 07, 1996
No. 24 Cardinal Cruises Past Manhattan, 81-59
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Peter Sauer scored a career-high 19 points and Brevin Knightadded 14 to lead 24th-ranked Stanford to an 81-59 victory overManhattan at Arco Arena in Sacramento, California.
Ryan Mendez chipped in 13 for Stanford (3-1), which was playingfor the first time since the Great Alaska Shootout on November30th. The Cardinal don't play a home game until December 28th,when they host Navy.
"That was good for us, that is what we need," said Stanfordcoach Mike Montgomery. "Defensively I saw some learning goingon out there. We made a ton of mistakes...but we were workinghard on defense."
Tarik Thacker netted 13 points and Jeronimo Bucero had 12 forManhattan (2-1), which has dropped both meetings with theCardinal. The previous encounter was a 73-60 decision in 1993.
Knight also recorded seven assists and six steals for theCardinal, who made 30-of-35 free throws (86 percent) and forced31 turnovers.
"They definitely made it a big priority to double and tripleteam (center) Tim (Young), so someone else had to step up," saidSauer. "There was a lot of openings and I was in the rightplace at the right time a lot of the time when they had morethan one guy on Tim."
MANHATTAN (59) fg ft rb min m-a m-a o-t a pf tpHoover 29 2-2 0-0 1-3 1 5 4Bucero 34 4-9 2-3 0-1 1 2 12Springer 16 0-1 0-0 1-2 0 4 0Mcdowell 22 2-5 0-0 1-2 0 1 5Thacker 25 5-8 0-0 0-0 1 4 13Lane 12 1-5 0-0 1-1 1 0 2Noone 3 0-0 2-2 0-1 0 0 2Lyons 19 2-3 0-0 1-5 1 2 4Obrien 19 4-5 0-0 2-3 2 4 10Dye 9 0-2 1-2 0-2 0 0 1Kane 10 2-3 2-2 1-4 0 3 6Ferrara 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0_______________________________________________TOTALS 200 22-43 7-9 8-24 7 25 59_______________________________________________Percentages: FG-.512, FT-.778. 3-Point Goals:8-21, .381 (Bucero 2-6, Mcdowell 1-4, Thacker3-5, Lane 0-2, Lyons 0-1, Obrien 2-3). Teamrebounds: 2. Blocked shots: 4 (Hoover 2, Bucero,Dye). Turnovers: 31 (Hoover 7, Bucero 5, Lyons 4,Lane 3, Mcdowell 3, Thacker 3, Kane 2, Springer2, Obrien). Steals: 8 (Bucero 2, Hoover 2, Kane,Lyons, Mcdowell, Thacker).STANFORD (81) fg ft rb min m-a m-a o-t a pf tpJackson 18 0-2 0-0 0-2 2 0 0Sauer 23 7-9 5-5 3-5 0 0 19Young 25 2-7 2-2 2-2 2 0 6Weems 18 3-4 2-2 0-0 2 2 10Knight 25 4-8 6-7 0-1 7 2 14Thompson 3 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0Lee 11 0-3 0-0 0-0 2 1 0Moseley 19 1-3 0-0 2-3 1 1 3Burge 2 0-2 0-0 1-2 0 0 0Mendez 17 2-5 8-9 2-2 1 2 13Wente 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0Tshionyi 7 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 3Van Elswyk 12 3-3 3-4 0-2 0 1 9Seaton 15 0-0 4-6 0-3 0 0 4Mathieson 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0_______________________________________________TOTALS 200 23-48 30-35 10-22 17 10 81_______________________________________________Percentages: FG-.479, FT-.857. 3-Point Goals:5-12, .417 (Jackson 0-1, Weems 2-2, Knight 0-2,Lee 0-1, Moseley 1-2, Mendez 1-3, Tshionyi 1-1).Team rebounds: 1. Blocked shots: 1 (Sauer).Turnovers: 14 (Young 3, Knight 2, Sauer 2, Weems2, Jackson, Mendez, Moseley, Thompson, Wente).Steals: 14 (Knight 6, Weems 3, Moseley 2,Jackson, Mendez, Thompson).__________________________________Manhattan 35 24 - 59Stanford 44 37 - 81__________________________________Technical fouls: None. A: 2,194. Officials: DanCrisman, Filippetti, Michael Wilde.