Pac-12: Oregon knocks off No. 21 USC

Elgin Cook matched his career high with 26 points and Chris Boucher had 16 points and nine rebounds to lead Oregon to an 89-81 victory over No. 21 Southern California on Thursday night at Eugene.

Dwayne Benjamin also had 16 points off the bench for the Ducks, who moved into a tie for second place in the Pac-12 with their 18th consecutive home win. Oregon held the Trojans, the conference’s best 3-point shooting team, to 8 of 28 (28.6 percent) from long range.

Freshman Bennie Boatright had 23 points and 12 rebounds, both season highs, to lead USC (15-4, 4-2) before fouling out late in the game. Julian Jacobs also had 18 points, six rebounds and five assists for the Trojans.

USC lost contact with the Ducks when they rode a 13-1 run to a 71-56 lead midway through the second half.

(12) Arizona 71, Stanford 57: Gabe York made a long 3-pointer with 8:24 left on the way to 19 points, and the Wildcats survived a Cardinal rally midway through the second half for a victory at Stanford, California.

Ryan Anderson added 18 points on 7-for-7 shooting and eight rebounds for the Wildcats in their 12th straight win against the Cardinal dating to a loss on Jan. 4, 2009.

Arizona’s Kadeem Allen went down in the corner by his team’s bench with 10:55 left then briefly left for the locker room before returning.

Grant Verhoeven provided a big lift in the second half for Stanford, but the Cardinal went cold when it counted as Arizona pulled away for good.

Verhoeven’s three-point play with 15:35 remaining pulled Stanford within 39-37, then he converted another three-point play at 14:19 before a pair of missed free throws by Kaleb Tarczewski. Verhoeven took a charge at 13:20.

Stanford then made just two of its next 14 field-goal tries and went nearly 9 minutes between baskets.

Wildcats coach Sean Miller won his 299th game and could reach 300 victories Saturday night against California in Berkeley.

California 75, Arizona State 70: Jaylen Brown scored five points of his 17 points over the final 80 seconds and the Golden Bears held off a late surge to beat the Sun Devils at Berkeley, California, snapping a three-game losing streak.

The Golden Bears led by 14 midway through the second half before the Sun Devils stormed back to tie the game at 65 with 2:25 remaining.

California freshman Ivan Rabb made a tiebreaking free throw then blocked a shot at the other end. After Brown made 1 of 2 free-throw attempts, the Bears blocked another shot and Brown followed with a fastbreak layup to make it 69-64.

Cal made 6 of 6 from the line inside 27 seconds to ice it.

Rabb finished with a season-high 20 points with eight rebounds and six assists for the Bears.

Obinna Oleka had 14 points and six rebounds, while Eric Jacobsen added 10 points and seven rebounds for Arizona State.