Beavers hand Stanford a discouraging setback 62-50
The Cardinal went cold as Duluth in the second half, shooting 24 percent against the Beavers’ matchup zone.
With seven regular-season games left, the Cardinal would seem to be playing simply for as high a seed as possible in the Pac-12 Tournament.
Even the NIT might be out of reach unless they pull off some stunning upsets.
Against OSU’s zone defense, Stanford (11-11, 4-7 Pac-12) sank just five three-pointers in 18 tries.
“For us, it was just not getting stops, giving up way too many open threes, way too many open layups,” said reserve center Grant Verhoeven, who scored a career-high 10 points.
The paid crowd was announced as 4,519, but the actual turnout was far short of that.
Michael Humphrey, still bothered by his knee contusion, had six points and two rebounds in 20 minutes.
Oregon State had a 51-40 lead with 6½ minutes left, but in its efforts to kill the clock it wound up taking too many bad shots.