SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - Harrison Ingram scored 15 points, James Keefe added 14 points, eight rebounds and three steals and Stanford beat Loyola Chicago 75-62 Thursday night at Kaiser Permanente Arena.
The Cardinal, who played five games at the arena during the COVID-altered 2020-21 season, improved to 6-0 at the home of the G-League’s Santa Cruz Warriors.
Ben Schwieger stole a pass under the basket and took it the other way for a coast-to-coast dunk that gave the Ramblers a 6-4 lead but Maxime Raynaud answered 18 seconds later with a 3-pointer and Stanford (5-7) led the rest of the way. Benny Gealer and Ingram also hit 3s before Ingram converted a traditional three-point play to cap a 14-5 spurt that made it 18-11 with 11 minutes left in the first half.
Seven different Stanford players scored in a 17-5 run to close the first half to take a 37-20 advantage into intermission and a dunk by Keefe gave the Cardinal a 21-point lead — their biggest of the game — with 14:41 to play.
Loyola Chicago (6-5), which had its three game win streak snapped, shot just 33% from the field, made 2 of 9 (22%) from 3-point range and committed nine of its 12 turnovers in the first half.
Marquise Kennedy sandwiched a pair of 3-pointers around a dunk by Schwieger before Braden Norris hit another 3 to cap an 11-1 run that pulled the Ramblers within eight points with 2 minutes to go but Stanford made 8 of 8 from the free-throw line from there to seal it.
Norris led Loyola Chicago with 18 points, Kennedy scored 14 and Philip Alston 11.
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