Afflalo leads No. 4 Bruins to home victory over Cardinal

Arron Afflalo scored 20 points, Luc Richard Mbah a Moute added 11 and No. 4 UCLA defeated Stanford 75-61 Saturday to close out its first undefeated home season at Los Angeles in 32 years.

The Bruins also clinched at least a share of the Pac-10 title for the second consecutive year. They wrap up the regular season next week at the Washington schools.

UCLA is 20-0 at Pauley Pavilion dating to last season, including 16-0 this season. The 1974-75 team, which won coach John Wooden’s 10th and final NCAA championship, also was perfect at home.

UCLA led all the way, although not by more than six points in the first half against a team that handed the Bruins one of their three road losses.

Stanford was led by Brook Lopez with 23 points and nine rebounds and Lawrence Hill added 13. The Cardinal, who had 16 turnovers, have lost four of six.

UCLA stretched a three-point lead at the break into its largest lead of the game, 53-40, on a 17-7 run that opened the final 20 minutes. Afflalo launched the spurt with a 3-pointer, Mbah a Moute hit a 3 and dunked off Josh Shipp’s steal before Russell Westbrook closed it out with a 3.

Stanford used a full-court press in the final 3 minutes, but the Bruins passed through it and moved the ball around to kill the clock, forcing the Cardinal to foul.

In the final seconds fans chanted “One more year!” at Afflalo, a junior who entered the NBA draft last April before withdrawing.

USC 84, California 66: At Los Angeles, Taj Gibson had 18 points and five assists and Lodrick Stewart became USC’s all-time 3-point shooting leader as the Trojans defeated the Bears.

Stewart, playing in his last home game as a Trojan, made the 219th 3-pointer of his college career in the second half to break Brandon Granville’s record. He added No. 220 late in the game and finished 4 for 7 from behind the arc, with 13 points.

Gibson went 7 for 11 from the field and Dwight Lewis shot 5 for 7 for 14 points.

The Trojans held onto sole possession of third place in the conference and closed out the first season at their new Galen Center arena with a 15-3 home record.

Nick Young, a junior who may be leaving USC for the NBA, added 13 points.

Ayinde Ubaka had 15 points for the Golden Bears and Ryan Anderson scored 14.