STANFORD, Calif. (AP) -- Jason Collins' brawn, Casey Jacobsen's
bombs and some tough defense propelled Stanford to a victory
befitting the nation's top-ranked team.
|  | | Freshman reserve Justin Davis had the best game of his young career, scoring seven points and grabbing 11 rebounds. |
Collins had a career-high 24 points and 12 rebounds, and
Jacobsen hit four 3-pointers and had 20 points as Stanford beat
Oregon 100-76 on Saturday.
The Cardinal (15-0, 4-0), who ascended to No. 1 a week ago, were
impressive and businesslike in their ninth straight victory over
the Ducks (10-3, 1-2). While Jacobsen was his usual dangerous self
from outside, Collins' dominant inside performance impressed even
his teammates.
"Jase is a beast down there," Jacobsen said. "If he gets the
ball that close, you can just chalk up the two points, or he's
going to the line. It's case closed."
After scoring one point in the first eight minutes of their
73-49 win over Oregon State on Thursday night, the Cardinal didn't
wait around this time.
Stanford made an exciting 26-7 rally in the first half
highlighted by 11 points from Collins, who scored at will on
Oregon's slow-footed frontcourt and made all eight of his free
throws.
"They had a problem with Jason size-wise," Stanford coach Mike
Montgomery said. "We had to exploit that. We keyed our offense off
Jason in the post, and it was very successful."
Collins got motivation -- some might call it good-natured abuse --
from his teammates after he missed two layups early in the first
half. He responded with his best game of what's already an amazing
year for the junior, who missed most of his first two seasons with
injuries.
The early misses "kind of fired me up for the rest of the
game," Collins said. "I was embarrassed missing a 1-foot shot."
Though the Cardinal haven't found a player to replace Mark
Madsen as their unquestioned team leader, Stanford benefits from a
healthy dialogue among the nine regular contributors on its roster.
Jacobsen said the Cardinal aren't afraid to tell each other what
they think.
"If we see a player that's not playing hard, or his mind's not
there, we try to fire him up," Jacobsen said. "We know what
buttons to push."
Stanford and Georgetown are the nation's only unbeaten teams.
The Cardinal scored 100 points for the first time since the season
opener against San Francisco State.
A 16-3 run midway through the second half gave Stanford a
26-point lead, which briefly stretched to 29. Jarron Collins,
Jason's twin, spent the first half in foul trouble and scored all
13 of his points in the second half, while reserve center Curtis
Borchardt had 11 points and Ryan Mendez nine.
"The way we play just makes them better," Oregon coach Ernie
Kent said. "We like to get out and run, and they're a tremendous
running team. You could say they beat us at our own game, but it's
their game, too."
What's more, reserve forward Justin Davis had the best game of
his freshman year, getting seven points and 11 rebounds while
playing stifling defense on Bryan Bracey, the conference's leading
scorer. Davis, a highly regarded recruit who hadn't played in
nearly two years because of injuries, is becoming an integral part
of the Cardinal's rotation.
When Bracey hit three jumpers over Jarron Collins in the first
4-plus minutes, Davis entered the game and shut him down. At 6-foot-8,
Davis is tall enough to guard power forwards but quicker than the
Collins brothers, who have trouble guarding tall perimeter players.
Bracey, who had just 10 points in the Ducks' loss to California
on Thursday night, had 16 to lead Oregon. Anthony Norwood had 14
for the Ducks, who met the nation's No. 1 team for the first time
in six years but left the Bay Area with two discouraging conference
losses after a 10-1 start.
"We played a lot tougher in this game than we did against Cal,
although the score didn't indicate that at all," Kent said. "The
thing about Stanford is, they respond against you quickly if you do
anything, because they have a lot of different weapons."
On the other end, Stanford's offense was in top form. Jacobsen
unleashed another barrage of 3-pointers from a few steps behind the
line, and Mike McDonald had seven assists while patiently directing
the Cardinal's offense.
At 15-0, Stanford is three victories shy of matching the best
start in school history, set in the 1997-98 season. Oregon hasn't
won at Maples since 1986.
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Stanford's Jason Collins avoids the double team and finds Justin Davis cutting to the hoop for the jam.
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Stanford's Jason Collins follows up the Justin Davis miss with the bucket.
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Oregon's Julius Hicks follows up the Bryan Bracey miss with the deuce.
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