Heal, Santa Clara women upset No. 17 Gonzaga

Freshman Tess Heal scored 16 points, capped by two free throws with 1.8 seconds to play, and Santa Clara ended No. 17 Gonzaga's 14-game winning streak with a 77-72 victory at home late Thursday night.

The Broncos, who lost the first matchup this season 78-61 for its 14th straight loss in the series, trailed by 12 points in the first quarter but had a 64-50 lead on Heal's 3-pointer with 7:20 to play. After Olivia Pollerd's 3-pointer put Santa Clara up 69-61 with 3:43 to go, the Broncos got off only one more shot and had three turnovers.

Kaylynne Truong's 3-pointer at 1:38 capped a 13-3 run that pulled Gonzaga within 69-66, but the Broncos made 8 of 10 free throws in the last 35 seconds.

Pollerd had 16 points for the Broncos (14-10, 5-6 West Coast Conference), while Ashley Hiraki added 13 and Marya Hudgins 12.

Yvonne Ejim scored 26 points for Gonzaga (21-3, 11-1), which dropped into a first-place tie with Portland, a three-point winner in overtime at San Francisco.

Men's basketball

TIMME REACHES 2,000 POINTS; GONZAGA TOPS SANTA CLARA >> Drew Timme scored 15 points and surpassed 2,000 for his career, leading No. 12 Gonzaga past Santa Clara 8870 late Thursday night.

Timme, who also had 10 rebounds, became the third player in school history to reach the scoring milestone when he dunked with 16:02 remaining. He needs eight points to pass Jim McPhee for second on Gonzaga's career scoring list. Timme needs to average 18.9 points during the next 10 games to surpass Frank Burgess for the top spot.

After having its 75-game home win streak snapped against Loyola Marymount, the Bulldogs (19-4, 8-1 West Coast Conference) relied on scoring in the paint and efficient shooting to extend their home winning streak over Santa Clara to 15.

Carlos Stewart had 22 points for Santa Clara (16-8, 4-5). Brandin Podziemski was held to 14 points after scoring 38 against Pacific in the Broncos' last game.

The Broncos have lost three straight and are tied for fourth in the WCC with Pacific with eight regular-season games remaining. Santa Clara hasn't beaten Gonzaga in Spokane since 2007 and the Bulldogs have won 49 of the last 51 meetings.

STREAKING STANFORD SMACKS UTAH 78-72 >> Spencer Jones scored 22 points, shooting 8 for 12, and reserve Michael Jones scored 15 as Stanford beat Utah 78-72 Thursday night for its fifth straight victory.

Michael O'Connell and Brandon Angel both scored 11 for Stanford. O'Connell added seven rebounds.

Lazar Stefanovic scored a careerhigh 26 points for Utah.

Stanford (10-12, 4-7) has won four straight in the Pac-12, while also beating Chicago State in the middle of its current run.

The Cardinal stay on the road to play Colorado on Sunday. Utah hosts Cal on Sunday.

AFTER HOT START, CAL FALLS TO COLORADO >> Tristan da Silva scored 20 points, Colorado leaned hard on its reserves and the Buffaloes staved off a season sweep by Cal by beating the Bears 59-46 Thursday night.

The Bears beat Colorado 80-76 on New Year's Eve for their first Pac-12 Conference win of the season.

Da Silva and KJ Simpson were the only Colorado (13-11, 5-8 Pac-12) starters to score for the Buffs in the first 30 minutes of play until 7-foot-1 center Lawson Lovering buried a jumper with 9:43 remaining.

Kuany Kuany was the only Cal player to score in double digits with 10 points. The Bears (3-19, 2-9) piled up 22 turnovers and 22 personal fouls.

Despite that, Cal controlled the first half and built a 27-17 lead on a pair of Joel Brown foul shots with 2:38 left. Colorado closed the half with a 7-0 run and used runs of 13-0 and 11-0 in the second half to earn the win. ALABAMA'S OATS GETS 6-YEAR, $30 MILLION DEAL >> Alabama coach Nate Oats agreed to a new six-year, $30 million contract amid the program's best regular season in decades.

Oats will average $5 million plus incentives over the deal running through the 2028-29 season.

Oats, who is in his fourth season, will make $4.5 million for the first year with $200,000 annual raises. The fourth-ranked Crimson Tide (19-3, 9-0 SEC) has the team's highest ranking this deep into a season since 1976-77.