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Duke Falls to Stanford on Last Second Shot, 84-83
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Casey Jacobsen banked in a jumper with 3.6 seconds left as No. 3 Stanford roared back from an 11-point deficit in the final four minutes to beat top-ranked Duke 84-83 Thursday night at the Pete Newell Challenge.
After being outrun and outplayed all night, Stanford made a frantic 11-1 run and tied it at 79 on Julius Barnes' layup with 1:09 left. Mike Dunleavy's leaner with 51 seconds left gave Duke the lead.
The Blue Devils led 83-82 when Dunleavy was fouled with 14 seconds left, but he missed two free throws to give Stanford one last shot.
Jacobsen, who finished with 26 points, drove the left side of the court and kissed a fallaway shot off the glass.
Duke rushed back down the court, but Jason Williams missed a driving layup, and the Blue Devils' follow-up shot came after the buzzer.
As Tiger Woods leaped, screamed and hugged his friends at courtside while rooting for his old school, the Stanford players rushed to midcourt for a jubilant hug.
"I've been working on that bank shot fadeaway and I took it," Jacobsen said.
"We don't get a chance to play a lot of East Coast teams, and we wanted everyone out there to know what Stanford basketball was all about," he said.
California faced Georgia in the second game of the Challenge, but all eyes at Oakland Arena were focused on the Bay Area's most high-profile college hoops matchup in years. The game lived up to every bit of its hype.
For most of the game, the Cardinal (9-0) appeared to be on the verge of suffering a blowout loss. The game was expected to be a contest of wills between Stanford's powerful inside game and Duke's up-tempo style, but the Blue Devils (10-1) jumped to a big early lead, then continually threatened to pull away in the second half.
"We were kind of timid to start the game, and we shouldn't have been," Stanford coach Mike Montgomery said. "I thought as the game went on, we got accustomed to playing at that level."
Jacobsen, a sophomore forward, kept the Cardinal within striking distance by shooting 11-of-19 from all spots on the field. His 26 points tied his career high.
Shane Battier scored 26 points for Duke before fouling out with 35 seconds left. Carlos Boozer also fouled out.
Jason Williams had 26 points and played stifling defense, but the confident, balanced offensive club that dominated the first 35 minutes disappeared during Stanford's comeback. Duke shot just 29 percent in the second half.
Jason Collins had 10 points and 15 rebounds for Stanford. His twin brother, Jarron, added 16 points and six rebounds as Stanford improved to 19-0 in games the twins have started together.
Stanford trailed 77-66 with four minutes left, but the Cardinal began a last-ditch run with strong inside play. Mike McDonald, who had been soundly outplayed by Williams all game long, then hit a 3-pointer to pull the Cardinal within four with two minutes left as the sellout crowd came to its feet.
The first half was dominated by Duke, which jumped to a 30-19 lead midway through the first half with a lengthy run. Williams banked in a shot-clock-beating 3-pointer with 40 seconds left and dunked with eight seconds to play as Duke took a 43-30 lead into halftime.
Newell, the 85-year-old coaching icon who led Cal to the 1959 NCAA title and coached the Olympic team in 1960, watched from courtside with Jerry West and Oscar Robertson. A few seats down the row, Woods and his college roommate, Jerry Chang, cheered on the Cardinal.
Baseball managers Dusty Baker and Tony La Russa also attended.
