Stanford earns win in Hawaii; Cal tops Pacific
Jaiden Delaire scored 17 points, Spencer Jones added 15 and Stanford held off Wyoming 66-63 on Wednesday in the first round of the Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu.
Stanford (7-4) will play Liberty in a semifinal Thursday.
Wyoming’s Graham Ike scored 25 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, Hunter Maldonado added 18 points and Xavier DuSell 13.
Wyoming inbounded the ball on its side of the court with 8.1 seconds remaining, but a pair of 3-point attempts were off the mark before time ran out.
Jones scored with six minutes left to give Stanford the lead for good. He combined with Michael O’Connell to score 11 of the Cardinal’s final 14 points.
Cal 73, Pacific 53: Grant Anticevich scored 16 of his career-high 25 points in the second half and the Bears (8-5) closed out the game on a 21-2 run to defeat the Tigers (5-9) at Haas Pavilion.
Pacific pulled to within 52-51 on a basket by Jeremiah Bailey with 7:42 remaining. Andre Kelly answered with a layup and a three-point play, sparking an 18-0 run that left Cal leading 70-51 with 2:38 left. Two free throws by Jordan Bell ended a Tigers’ scoring drought that lasted 5:44.
Anticevich buried seven 3-pointers and added 11 rebounds for his fourth doubledouble of the season. Jalen Celestine pitched in with 12 points and seven boards. Kelly and Jordan Shepherd added 11 points apiece.
“When Grant’s shooting it like he shoots it, we’re not going to tell him to stop,” Cal head coach Mark Fox said. “The 3-point shot is not something we’ve utilized enough, but tonight we got in a rhythm and it was a weapon for us.”
Jaden Byers scored 10 points to lead the Tigers.
USF 64, Southern Illinois 52: Jamaree Bouyea, held to a combined 11 points in his previous two games, scored 20 and Yauhen Massalski added 18 as the host Dons (12-1) defeated the Salukis (7-5).
Bouyea’s eighth game this season with 20 or more points featured 8-for-12 shooting, part of the Dons’ 51% effort in the game. Bouyea was a combined 5-for-25 from the field in USF’s previous two games, a onepoint loss to Grand Canyon and a one-point win over Arizona State.
“My trip to Arizona wasn’t the results I wanted,” Bouyea said in a postgame radio interview. “It was a bad weekend over there. But I think our team kind of picked up the slack. And I think coming back, I just had to trust my work.”
St. Mary's 75, Missouri State
58: Senior forward Matthias Tass scored a career-high 27 points on 12-for-15 shooting as the host Gaels (11-3) defeated the Bears (8-5).
St. Mary’s, which also got 16 points from Tommy Kuhse and 13 from Logan Johnson, trailed by three at halftime but took the lead for good on a dunk by Tass with 12:38 remaining.
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USF 78, Tulsa 76: Kennedy Dickie hit a 3-pointer with 52 seconds left to cap an 11-0 run
that put her team ahead, and Dickie, Amalie Langer and Kia Vaalavirta each hit one free throw in the final 13 seconds to help the Dons (6-6) defeat the host Golden Hurricane (10-1).
USF built a 13-point secondquarter lead, but Tulsa rallied to tie the score by halftime. Tulsa then took a 12-point lead in the third quarter and still led by 10 with 4:09 left in the fourth before the Dons’ push.
Claudia Langarita scored 17 points and Langer had 15 to lead USF.
“So proud of this team’s fight and resilience,” USF coach Molly Goodenbour said. “We got down and found a way to keep persevering through difficult circumstances.
“This is a great win versus an undefeated team on their home court and a fantastic way to head into Christmas break.”