BERKELEY (AP) – Justice Sueing scored 23 points and Cal battled Stanford to the final buzzer, but the Golden Bears came up short in an 84-81 loss to the Cardinal Saturday afternoon.
 
Connor Vanover added a career-best 15 points, Paris Austin chipped in 15, as well, and Matt Bradley scored 13 for the Bears. KZ Okpala paced Stanford with 30 points.
 
The game featured 12 ties and 11 lead changes.

KZ Okpala scored a career-high 30 points and had eight rebounds. Bryce Wills added 16 points and Daejon Davis scored 14 for Stanford (11-10, 4-5 Pac-12). The Cardinal have won three of four.

Okapala scored 19 in the second half and made a clinching free throw with 13.3 seconds left, but it was a play moments earlier that had the Haas Pavilion crowd buzzing.

Bradley drove baseline and scored for an apparent tying basket. Stanford's Josh Sharma was initially called for his fifth foul but the play was reviewed by officials and overturned.

Instead of Bradley going to the free throw line for a chance to give the Bears the lead, Stanford got the ball and closed out to beat Cal for the third time in four games.

Paris Austin missed a 3-pointer for the Bears as the buzzer sounded.

Okpala got going early with a dunk, then had a steal and layup but the Cardinal sputtered for most of the first half and had 11 turnovers before the break.

Cal took advantage and led by five midway through the first half before Stanford closed with its best run of the game and pulled within 38-37 on Kodye Pugh's short hook.

The Bears also got an early lift from 7-foot-3 freshman center Vanover, who scored six consecutive points during one stretch then added an emphatic dunk off a pass from Bradley. Vanover finished with a season-high 15 points.

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