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 Randle scored a game-high 24 points, and his driving layup over
7-foot Washington center Robert Upshaw with 2.2 seconds left in
regulation sent the game into overtime. Stanford then finished off
No. 21 Washington in the extra period for a 68-60 victory at Maples
Pavilion, sending the Huskies to their third consecutive loss.
Stanford (10-3, 2-0 Pac-12) dominated Washington (11-3, 0-2) in the
overtime. Guard Anthony Brown, who finished with 16 points, hit a
jumper at the 4:10 mark of the extra period to give the Cardinal a
lead it never lost.
The drama came at the end of regulation.
Brown cut a four-point Stanford deficit to two with two free throws
with 14.4 seconds to go in the second half, and Stanford had a
chance to tie or win after Washington guard Nigel Williams-Goss
missed the front end of a one-and-one with 13.4 seconds left.
 Randle got the ball at the top of the key and drove the lane. As he
neared the basket, he was confronted by Upshaw, who blocked four
shots Sunday and leads the nation with an average of 4.6 blocks a
game. "I just tried to get into his body and get as much room from him as
possible," the 6-foot-2 Randle said.
Randle banked the shot in over Upshaw, scoring a bucket that changed
the game's momentum.
"He's made so many big plays for us," Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins
said. "We expect him to step up to the challenge. He's one of the
best guard finishers in the country, and he showed it again
tonight."
Randle was not feeling his best, and he had a raspy voice in his
postgame interview.
"I'm not sure what it is," Randle said regarding the ailment that
affected him past few days. "It might be a common cold, but I have
been having a headache, a sore throat. I was a little winded."
Randle still played all 45 minutes and was Stanford's man in the
clutch.
"That's what he does; that's who he is," said Cardinal center Stefan
Nastic, who had 10 points and 11 rebounds.
Washington coach Lorenzo Romar was pleased with his team's overall
performance, even though the Huskies went more than 13 minutes in
the middle of the game without a field goal.
"Tonight was more like that team (that started 11-0)," Romar said.
"We competed, we defended. We played well enough to win. The last
two games, we didn't play well enough to win."
Forward Shawn Kemp Jr. had 19 points for Washington, and Upshaw had
10 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks. Guard Andrew Andrews added
13 points.
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Stanford was aided by Washington's scoring slump in the middle
portion of the game. Over a span of 13:39 that bridged the late
stages of the first half and the early part of the second, the
Huskies missed all 15 of their field-goal attempts. The Huskies scored just three points in that stretch, helping the
Cardinal turn a 10-point deficit with 9:53 left in the first half
into a seven-point lead with 16:33 remaining in the second half.
Washington bounced back to take a 39-37 lead as Kemp scored seven
straight points, the last two coming on free throws.
The lead see-sawed until Williams-Goss made a 10-footer to put
Washington ahead 50-49 with 3:23 remaining. Upshaw added a layup to
make it 52-49, and the Washington lead eventually grew to five
points with 2:13 left.
However, the Huskies could not handle Randle, who scored nine of his
points in the final eight minutes of regulation.
"Randle was awfully tough," Romar said. "He made some clutch shots
at the end. He got us last year, too."
Randle scored 33 points in one of the Cardinal's two wins against
the Huskies last season, and he got the best of Washington again
Sunday in the teams' first meeting this season.
NOTES: G Nigel Williams-Goss, Washington's leader in scoring and
assists, left the game with 15:16 left in the first half due to back
spasms. After a visit to the locker room with the trainer,
Williams-Goss returned to the game with 11:06 remaining in the half.
He finished with just eight points on 3-of-11 shooting. ... Stanford
G Chasson Randle made just one of seven 3-point shots Sunday, but
that was enough for him to set the school record for career 3-point
shots made, 242. ... Stanford played its second consecutive game
without starting F Reid Travis, a freshman who is sidelined
indefinitely due to a stress fracture in his leg. ... Washington won
its first 11 games of the season for just the second time in Lorenzo
Romar's 13 seasons as head coach. However, the Huskies are 0-2 in
the Pac-12 for the first time in seven seasons.
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