Okorie has strong second half, nets 21 points to rally Stanford past Montana State 77-68

Ebuka Okorie scored 15 of his 21 points successful the 2nd fractional and Stanford pulled distant for a 77-68 triumph implicit Montana State, the 3rd triumph implicit a Big Sky Conference squad for the Cardinal to commencement the season

STANFORD, Calif. -- Ebuka Okorie scored 15 of his 21 points successful the 2nd fractional and Stanford pulled distant for a 77-68 triumph implicit Montana State connected Wednesday night, the 3rd triumph implicit a Big Sky Conference squad for the Cardinal to commencement the season.

Benny Gealer added 16 points, Chisom Okpara had 15 and AJ Rohosy 13, including 2 baskets nether the two-minute people that sealed it for the Cardinal (3-0).

Christian King scored 14 points to pb the Bobcats (1-3). Patrick McMahon added 12 points, Chris Hodges had 11 and Jed Miller 10.

King scored 7 points successful an 18-4 surge that gave Montana State its archetypal pb astatine 52-48 with 11:53 to play. The Bobcats kept the lead, going up 61-55 connected a jumper by Jeremiah Davis astatine the 8:20 mark.

The Cardinal, led by Okorie with 9 points, went connected a 14-2 tally for a 69-63 pb with little than 4 minutes to go. Okorie had a 3-pointer to enactment Stanford up 63-61 and followed that with a three-point play to get the pb for bully astatine 66-63.

With the pb astatine 4 arsenic the timepiece dipped nether 2 minutes, Rohosy made a layup. After King missed a 3-point attempt, Stanford ran the changeable timepiece down earlier Rohosy slipped escaped for different layup.

Gealer deed the archetypal 2 baskets of the crippled to springiness the Cardinal a 5-0 pb but it wasn't until the last 2 minutes of the archetypal fractional the pb got to 10. Still, the Bobcats got the past 5 points and went into the interruption down 36-31.

Montana State plays astatine Boise State connected Saturday.

Louisiana-Lafayette visits Stanford connected Tuesday.

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