UCLA
13-13, 6-7
Stanford
14-11, 7-6
UCLA Men's Basketball Falls at Stanford 104-80
February 16, 2019 | Men's Basketball
STANFORD, Calif. โ Jaylen Hands scored a career-high 29 points as the UCLA men's basketball team fell to Stanford 104-80 in a Pac-12 game on Saturday evening at Maples Pavilion.
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Hands made eight of 14 shots against Stanford, including three of six attempts from beyond the 3-point arc. He made 10 of 11 free throws and finished with four assists.
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Jules Bernard scored a career-high 19 points off the bench for the Bruins (13-13, 6-7 Pac-12). The freshman guard knocked down six of his seven shot attempts.
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Josh Sharma totaled 22 points and 12 rebounds to lead Stanford (14-11, 7-6). Five Cardinal players scored in double figures, with KZ Okpala also reaching the 20-point threshold. Daejon Davis scored 12 points and dished out a game-high 11 assists. The Cardinal tallied 23 assists on 37 made field goals, shooting 52.9 percent from the field.
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A faulty rim delayed the start of the second half by approximately 35 minutes.
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"They were much more ready than us, much more high energy than us," said UCLA interim head coach Murry Bartow. "I thought we got whipped in the first half and the delay obviously had nothing to do with it. Our defense has really been what kind of kept us in games and, man tonight, we just had no answer defensively. We tried man, we tried 2-3, we tried 3-2, we tried 1-3-1 and just couldn't get a stop."
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The inside-outside combination of Moses Brown and Hands got UCLA started quickly, as the visiting Bruins made four of their first five field goal attempts and secured an early 11-2 cushion.
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Stanford's Cormac Ryan spearheaded the Cardinal's first-half response, as they outscored UCLA by a 28-7 margin and converted 11 of 14 shots during that scoring run. Ryan accounted for 14 first-half points, while Hands scored 17 points before intermission. Stanford entered the locker room at the half with a 49-40 advantage.
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Stanford scored 12 of the first 14 points in the second half and extended its lead to 23 points with 11:51 remaining. UCLA chipped away at the deficit, as the trio of Bernard, Hands and Prince Ali combined for 33 of its 40 second-half points. A pair of Hands free throws brought the Bruins to within nine points with 4:20 remaining, but the Cardinal closed the second half with a 19-4 scoring run.
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UCLA's 104 points allowed marked the program's highest point total surrendered in a non-overtime contest since Feb. 14, 2004, when the Bruins lost at Arizona, 107-83.
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The Bruins will return to action against Oregon State on Thursday evening. Game time in Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom is 8 p.m. (PT). The Bruins' game will be nationally televised on FS1, with Tim Brando and Casey Jacobsen serving as the broadcasters.
