Sun Devils top Bruins in overtime
James Harden scored 24 points, Jeff Pendergraph added 18 and No. 16 Arizona State rallied from an 11-point second-half deficit to beat No. 9 UCLA 61-58 in overtime Saturday in Los Angeles, snapping the Bruins’ 10-game winning streak.
The Sun Devils (15-3, 4-2 Pac-10) split on their trip to Los Angeles, having lost 61-49 at Southern California on Thursday night, when Harden was held to a season-low four points on 0-for-8 shooting.
Josh Shipp scored 16 points and Darren Collison added 14 for the Bruins (14-3, 4-1), who had their 15-game home winning streak end. They had beaten the Sun Devils eight straight games.
Arizona State coach Herb Sendek earned his first win over UCLA in five tries.
Both teams were mistake-prone in the overtime that began with a 54-all tie.
Pendergraph dunked, then Collison made two free throws for another tie. Freshman Jrue Holiday fouled Harden, who missed the first and made the second for a 57-56 lead. Alfred Aboya hit a jumper from the right side that put the Bruins back in front 58-57 with 54 seconds to play.
But Harden made a layup and Aboya fouled Derek Glasser, who made both free throws for a 61-58 lead.
The Bruins never got off a final shot, desperately passing the ball among Collison, Michael Roll and Shipp for a 3-point attempt that didn’t happen before the final buzzer.
“Coach was in our head saying if we were going to win, it was going to be on the defensive end,” Harden said. “Guys just locked in and came up with some big stops.”
“We have so much respect for UCLA’s defense. Instead of two points, you feel like you should get seven because they’re so good on defense,” Sendek said. “Our guys won it by playing good defense. It wasn’t that we outscored them.
“It’s a game that could have gone either way. We were lucky, we know that.”
Stanford 75, (22) California 69: Lawrence Hill matched his career high with 25 points and the Cardinal spoiled former coach Mike Montgomery’s return to Maples Pavilion in charge of the Bears.
Stanford’s big win in the season’s first meeting – it dropped a pair of one-point games to be swept by the Washington schools last week – snapped Cal’s nine-game win streak and also might knock the Golden Bears out of the top 25 after they got back in the poll for the first time since 2003.
Anthony Goods added 19 points and Landry Fields 15 points, five rebounds and two blocks for Stanford (12-3, 2-3 Pac-10), which avoided dropping three in a row for the first time since ending the 2006-07 season by losing three straight.
Jamal Boykin scored a career-high 22 points for Cal (15-3, 4-1).
Southern Cal 65, Arizona 64: Daniel Hackett hit one free throw with 1.2 seconds remaining, lifting USC to a victory over the Wildcats in Los Angeles after the Trojans rallied from a nine-point deficit in the second half.
Dwight Lewis scored 21 points, hitting 10 of 12 free throws, and Taj Gibson added 13 points and eight rebounds before fouling out for USC (12-5, 3-2 Pac-10), now 10-1 at home.
Chase Budinger scored 19 points and Jordan Hill added 14 points for the Wildcats (11-7, 2-4), who were swept in Los Angeles. They were routed 83-60 by No. 9 UCLA on Thursday night.