STANFORD, Calif. \u2013 Continuing its five-game homestand to begin the season, Stanford men\u2019s basketball rallied in the second half to defeat Montana State, 77-68, at Maples Pavilion. Stanford improves to 3-0 on the season with the result.<\/p>\n
Ebuka Okorie<\/a> led the Cardinal scoring with 21 points while adding three assists and three steals. He is the first Stanford freshman to record three-straight 20-point games since Tyrell Terry<\/a> from Nov. 21-26, 2019.<\/p>\n Benny Gealer<\/a> scored a season-high 16 points, including four 3-pointers, while Chisom Okpara<\/a> added 15 with four rebounds and three assists. AJ Rohosy<\/a> was in double figures for the second-straight game, ending with a season-high 13 points with seven rebounds.<\/p>\n Stanford forced 16 Montana State (1-3) turnovers, including nine in the first half, as the Cardinal led 36-31 at the break. Gealer scored Stanford\u2019s first eight points of the night, and the Cardinal led by as many as 10 points late in the period, 36-26, after Gealer connected on his third triple of the opening frame.<\/p>\n Montana State took the lead at the 12:55 mark in the second half and held a six-point lead with 8:20 to play. Stanford responded with an 8-0 run to take the lead, while the Cardinal outscored the Bobcats 22-4 over a stretch of 7:36 to secure the victory.<\/p>\n Stanford returns to action on Tuesday, Nov. 18 against Louisiana. The 7 p.m. tip will air on ACC Network Extra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STANFORD, Calif. \u2013 Continuing its five-game homestand to begin the season, Stanford men\u2019s basketball rallied in the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85,34374,162731,65948,51932],"class_list":{"0":"post-281214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-stanford","13":"tag-stanford-athletics","14":"tag-stanford-cardinal","15":"tag-stanford-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}