’Cats rally past Cal

Derrick Williams scored a career-high 31 points, 19 in the second half, and Arizona (13-3, 2-1 Pac-10) rallied from a nine-point deficit to escape with a 73-71 victory over California (7-7, 0-2) on Thursday night at Tucson, Ariz.

Williams grabbed 12 rebounds and broke his school record for free-throw attempts, going 16 of 22.

Stanford 55, Arizona State 41: Josh Owens powered his way to 15 points and 11 rebounds, and the Cardinal (9-4, 2-0) earned a rare conference road win by beating the Sun Devils (8-6, 1-2) at Tempe, Ariz.

Trent Locket, Ruslan Pateev and Carrick Felix had 10 points each for Arizona State, which shot 1 of 14 from 3-point range.