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<\/p>\nSophomore guard Jeremy Green went 11-18 from the field, including 5-8 from long range to earn his career-high 30 points. But the Card\u2019s bench didn\u2019t score a single point to help in the win. (JIN ZHU\/The Stanford Daily)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“It\u2019s all good,\u201d Green said in regard to his injuries. \u201cI\u2019m all good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Green was definitely \u201cgood\u201d \u2014 the sophomore guard went 11-of-18 from the floor and seemed to make big shot after big shot when the Bruins were trying to get back into the game. He banked in a running three-pointer as time expired at the end of the first half to give the Cardinal a 34-33 lead going into the locker room.<\/p>\n
“That was just a huge performance by a great player,\u201d said sophomore center Jack Trotter. “He\u2019s really come into his own.”<\/p>\n
Senior forward Landry Fields overcame a slow start to finish with 16 points and seven rebounds. He didn\u2019t have the best shooting night of his career, but he found a way to get his points, both inside and out.<\/p>\n
“I was as proud of any kid as I\u2019ve ever been,\u201d said Coach Johnny Dawkins of Fields. \u201cHe takes everyone\u2019s best shot every night. He\u2019s never once backed off a challenge. He got off to a slow start tonight, and the toughest thing for any good player to do is to be able to turn it around in that same game. For him to turn it around in the second half says a lot about who he is.”<\/p>\n
Overall, it was a solid performance by the Cardinal, who led nearly the whole game and pulled away from the Bruins in the final minutes.<\/p>\n
“I thought we played well,\u201d Dawkins said after the game. \u201cI thought our guys worked hard, followed the game plan and were prepared.\u201d
\nDawkins also had plenty of praise for Green.<\/p>\n
“I give the young man a lot of credit,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s played through a lot of injuries. He contributes, he\u2019s competitive and I\u2019m starting to think he [plays well] so he doesn\u2019t have to practice for me,\u201d Dawkins joked.<\/p>\n
“He\u2019s got a big heart \u2014 he\u2019s a big competitor,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The unheralded Cardinal big men \u2014 Trotter and fellow sophomore Andrew Zimmerman \u2014 also played well, finishing around the basket and making a number of hustle plays. Trotter, a walk-on, finished with 10 points on 4-of-7 shooting.<\/p>\n
“I thought our big men were terrific,\u201d Dawkins said. \u201cThey grew even more tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trotter emphasized the businesslike role he and Zimmerman have assumed for the Cardinal this season. \u201cWe\u2019re going to defend, rebound and set screens,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re just setting screens and making good, strong fundamental plays.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophomore point guard Jarrett Mann did what he needed to do as point guard, only scoring six points but dishing out an impressive eight assists. Though the Cardinal did not receive a single point from its bench, the contributions from the starters were more than enough to top the Bruins on Saturday.<\/p>\n
UCLA shot 54.6 percent from the field while Stanford only shot 47.2 percent, but the game was won on turnovers and free throws \u2014 the Cardinal shot 13 more free throws and turned the ball over 10 fewer times. The Bruins may have shot the ball better, but the Cardinal\u2019s execution on offense \u2014 namely, its ability to take care of the ball \u2014 was the difference in the game, whether UCLA threw a zone or man-to-man defense at it.<\/p>\n
“This just happened to be a good game against a good team, and [we got] a great win,\u201d Green said.<\/p>\n
Stanford earned a much-welcome sweep of the Southern California schools with the victory, and it stands, for the moment, in the upper half of the conference before traveling to face the Washington schools this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jeremy Green came into Saturday\u2019s contest against UCLA with a sore ankle, a bruised finger bone and a pulled back muscle. The sophomore guard then proceeded to play one of the best games of his career. Green scored 30 points in 37 minutes for the Cardinal (8-7, 2-1 Pacific-10 Conference), who earned a solid 70-59 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}