Post-Game Notes
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POST-GAME NOTES 2019 Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament Wednesday, March 13 // Las Vegas // T-Mobile Arena Final Score: #7 UCLA 79, #10 Stanford 72 • With today’s win, No. 7 UCLA will face No. 2 Arizona State tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. in the quarterfinals. Arizona State won the only matchup this season, 84-73. It will be the 17th time in the Pac-12 Tournament that the No. 2 and No. 7 seed will meet, with the No. 2 seed holding an 11-5 edge. • With the win, UCLA has won five of its last eight games. The Bruins also improve to 2-1 against the Cardinal this season. • With two free throws with 48 seconds left, Kris Wilkes became the 57th player in UCLA history to score 1,000-career points with the Bruins. • Wilkes has scored in double figures in 30-of-32 games this season. • UCLA improves to 24-16 all-time in the Conference tournament and is 4-1 against Stanford. The Bruins are 9-5 since the tournament moved to Las Vegas. • UCLA has won its opening game of the tournament seven of the last eight years. • Stanford falls to 17-21 all-time in the tournament. • UCLA has now eliminated Stanford from the Pac-12 Tournament for the second consecutive year. • The Bruins, who led 36-22 at the break, improve to 14-4 when leading at halftime this season and 108-14 since 2013-14. • Stanford shot just 8-of-35 (22.9 percent) from the field in the first half, its second-lowest shooting half of the season. The Cardinal shot 5-of-23 (21.7 percent) against Florida on Nov. 22, 2018. • Stanford scored 50 points in the second half, its fifth 50-point half this season and first since it scored 52 against Washington State on Feb. 28. • Josh Sharma (18 points, 13 rebounds) has recorded a double-double in three-straight games and five of his last seven. Sharma has six career double-doubles and have all come this season. • Sharma also tied his career-high in blocks with four (March 3 vs. Washington). • Daejon Davis scored zero points and had zero assists in 11 minutes of action. He missed Stanford’s previous two games with a foot injury. • Jaylen Hands grabbed a career-high 11 rebounds against Stanford. He added 22 points for his fifth double-double of the year. • Jaylen Hands is two assists shy of cracking the Bruins’ single-season top 10 assists list. He has 197 assists this season. • Oscar De Silva recorded 10 rebounds, one rebound shy of his season high. • UCLA had at least five in double figures for the sixth time this season. • Marcus Sheffield scored a season-high 18 points and tied his season-high in rebounds with four. • Moses Brown blocked one shot and is tied for fourth on UCLA’s single-season blocked shots list at 61. He is also ninth on the Pac-12’s freshman season list. • Stanford falls to 5-2 when Oscar De Silva scores at least 13 points. .