Okorie Scores 34, Season Ends at College Basketball Crown – Stanford Cardinal

LAS VEGAS – Competing within the second annual College Basketball Crown at MGM Grand Garden Arena, Stanford males’s basketball fell in additional time to West Virginia within the quarterfinals, 82-77. The Cardinal closes the season with a 20-13 report.

Ebuka Okorie scored 34 factors on 13-for-23 taking pictures with 5 assists, marking his eighth 30-level outing of the season. Okorie breaks the ACC freshman report for 30-level video games, passing Duke’s Marvin Bagley III (2017-18), and he ends his season ranked third all-time at Stanford in whole factors (719) and second in scoring common (23.2).

Aidan Cammann scored 12 factors, AJ Rohosy completed with 10 factors and 9 rebounds and Ryan Agarwal scored eight factors with eight rebounds. Benny Gealer scored six factors with seven rebounds, and he moved into fourth place on Stanford’s single-season 3-pointers listing with 85.

Stanford gained the battle of the boards, 47-37 together with 16 offensive rebounds, and held West Virginia to simply 2-for-20 taking pictures from past the arc.

The Cardinal earned their first lead of the night at 15-13 within the first half, with a Cammann 3-pointer capping a 7-0 run. Okorie scored 11 factors within the first half, however West Virginia led at the intermission, 35-29.

Okorie got here alive within the second half, pouring in 21 factors and scoring or helping on 11 of Stanford’s 14 subject targets within the interval. Stanford held a 67-59 lead with simply over three minutes to play, however West Virginia rallied to tie the sport within the closing seconds to ship the matchup to additional time.

Agarwal gave Stanford a 3-level edge early within the additional interval, however West Virginia responded with a 9-2 run to take a 4-level lead. Stanford had alternatives to tie the rating inside the ultimate minute, however his makes an attempt rimmed out to present the Mountaineers the consequence.

Stanford competed within the postseason for the second consecutive season, marking its first again-to-again postseason tournaments since 2012-15. Smith turned the primary coach in program historical past to win 20 or extra video games in every of his first two seasons at Stanford, and he has guided Stanford to a .500 or higher mark in consecutive seasons within the ACC as one in all simply 5 groups to perform the feat, together with Duke, North Carolina, Louisville and Clemson.