Ayton leads the Wildcats to title

Deandre Ayton had 26 points and 20 rebounds, helping No. 19 Arizona clinch the Pac-12 regular-season title outright with a 66-54 victory over California on Saturday night.

Arizona (24-7, 14-4) had the title in its sights for its seniors’ final home game. Instead of rolling against the Pac-12’s last-place team, the Wildcats had a hard time shaking the Golden Bears (8-23, 2-16).

Arizona closed the game with a 13-1 run, finishing off its fifth Pac-12 title in six seasons in the final home game for seniors Dusan Ristic, Parker Jackson-Cartwright and Keanu Pinder.

Allonzo Trier, Arizona’s second-leading scorer, had a rough final home game of the 2017-18 season, finishing with two points on one-for-10 shooting, including 0 for 7 on three-pointers.

Stanford 84, at Arizona State 83: Dorian Pickens, playing just down the road from where he grew up, scored all 20 of his points in the second half for the Cardinal and Stanford held on through a wild final minute to beat the Sun Devils, damaging the NCAA tournament hopes of Arizona State in the teams’ regular-season finale.

Oregon 72, at Washington 64: Payton Pritchard scored 14 points and Paul White added 13 as the Ducks turned back a late rally by the Huskies to preserve a victory to end the regular season.

Washington, which trailed 44-29 at the half, used a 9-2 run to pull within 68-64 with 3:12 remaining, but failed to score the rest of the way.

at Utah 64, Colorado 54: Justin Bibbins scored 24 points, including six threepointers, to help the Utes survive a sluggish second half and beat the Buffaloes.

Sedrick Barefield chipped in 14 points in his return after a two-game absence and Donnie Tillman scored 10 for the Utes. Utah clinched the No. 3 seed in the conference tournament.

Oregon State 92, at

Washington State 67: Ethan Thompson had 23 points and six assists and the Beavers embarrassed the Cougars on the last day of the regular season.