Ebuka Okorie saved his second and third 3-pointers of the night for a late flurry and finished with a game-high 34 points, lifting host Stanford to a 75-67 Atlantic Coast Conference victory over Pitt on Wednesday night.

Okorie also found time for six rebounds, six assists and three steals for the Cardinal (17-11, 6-9 ACC), who snapped a two-game losing streak.

Cameron Corhen had a team-high 22 points and Barry Dunning Jr. 19 for the Panthers (10-18, 3-12), who used a 14-2 burst to take a 63-57 lead on Corhen’s three-point play with 7:08 remaining.

But Pitt scored just four points the rest of the way, eventually falling victim to Okorie’s heroics.

The star freshman began his late run with a layup that put the hosts up for good at 65-64 with 4:07 remaining.

He then stole Omari Witherspoon’s pass, and despite getting a layup blocked by Witherspoon, the Cardinal retained possession. Benny Gealer found Okorie for a 3-pointer and a four-point advantage with 3:27 to go.

After Dunning missed a free throw for the Panthers, Okorie connected from deep again, giving Stanford a 71-64 lead from which the visitors never recovered.

Okorie shot 11-for-19 and made all nine of his foul shots in his sixth 30-point effort of the season. The Cardinal made all 10 of their free throws in the game and shot 50% from the field.

Gealer backed Okorie with 12 points and Aidan Cammann had 11 for Stanford. AJ Rohosy was the Cardinal’s leading rebounder with eight.

Corhen tied Rohosy for game-high rebound honors and also had four assists and two steals for Pitt, which lost despite shooting 49% overall and outscoring the hosts 27-21 from deep.

Corhen had a pair of three-point plays, Dunning a 3-pointer and a dunk and Nojus Indrusaitis a 3-pointer in Pitt’s 14-2 flurry that allowed them to turn a six-point deficit into their 63-57 advantage.

Indrusaitis had 10 points off the visitors’ bench.

The second half featured four ties and seven lead changes, the last on Okorie’s layup with 4:07 left that triggered Stanford’s fast finish.

–Field Level Media

Cade Cunningham had 29 points and 13 assists and Jalen Duren had 29 points and 15 rebounds to lead the Detroit Pistons to a 124-116 home win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday in a battle of the top teams from each conference.

The Pistons have won six of their last seven, while the Thunder had its three-game winning streak snapped.

Detroit led by 17 in the third quarter and as many as 14 in the fourth before the Thunder cut the deficit to three with a 13-2 run that included eight points from Aaron Wiggins.

After Oklahoma City made it 108-105 with 5:06 remaining, the Pistons grabbed four consecutive offensive rebounds before Javonte Green drained a 3-pointer with the shot clock dwindling to break the skid.

The Thunder cut the deficit to four in the final minute, but Cunningham found Duren for a dunk in the last 30 seconds to help the Pistons hold off Oklahoma City.

Playing on the second night of a back-to-back, the Thunder were already short-handed and wound up even more short-handed throughout the course of the game.

Late in the first quarter, Branden Carlson left with lower back soreness and did not return, while Isaiah Joe suffered a left glute contusion late in the second quarter and didn’t return.

Oklahoma City was not only without Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jalen Williams and Ajay Mitchell, who have all been out since before the All-Star break, but also Isaiah Hartenstein, Chet Holmgren and Alex Caruso.

Detroit’s Isaiah Stewart served the fifth contest of a seven-game suspension.

Even without all but one of its normal starters against the Eastern Conference’s top team, Oklahoma City jumped out to a big lead early behind its defense.

The Thunder closed the first quarter on a 15-2 run to take a 12-point lead. Seven of those points off turnovers came in the final four minutes of the quarter.

But Detroit quickly got back in the game in the second, cutting the deficit to one with a 9-0 run, kick-started by back-to-back rebounds and putbacks from Ronald Holland II early in the second.

The Pistons then pulled ahead with a 19-10 run over the final four minutes of the second quarter to take the lead for good.

Without Holmgren and Hartenstein in the middle for Oklahoma City, Detroit dominated in the paint, outscoring the Thunder 70-32.

Jaylin Williams led the Thunder with a career-high 30 points and 11 rebounds. Williams’ previous career high was 24. Cason Wallace added 23.

–Field Level Media

Alperen Sengun recorded his third triple-double of the season, and Reed Sheppard scored a game-high 28 points while making only his seventh start as the Houston Rockets cruised to a 128-97 victory over the visiting Sacramento Kings on Wednesday.

Sengun posted 26 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists while Sheppard drilled a career-high seven 3-pointers, starting in place of Amen Thompson (quad). Kevin Durant tallied 21 points.

The Rockets shot 55% from the floor and converted 17 of 39 3-pointers against the Kings, who snapped a franchise-worst 16-game losing skid against the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday.

Russell Westbrook paced the Kings with 22 points. DeMar DeRozan added 15 points and seven assists while Nique Clifford posted 15 points off the bench. The Kings missed 24 of 31 3s.

Westbrook singlehandedly kept the Kings afloat for the bulk of the opening period. He scored 10 of their first 12 points and upped his individual total to 17 points with a three-point play at the 2:20 mark that shaved the deficit to 26-22.

However, the rest of the Kings shot 1 for 10 in the first quarter, and the Rockets bridged the opening two frames with a 15-0 run following the Westbrook three-point play. Sheppard drilled a pair of 3-pointers early in the second quarter, the second capping the run and lifting the Rockets to a 41-22 lead with 10:25 remaining in the first half.

The Rockets methodically pulled away from that juncture, securing their first 20-point lead at 49-29 on another Sheppard 3 at the 8:04 mark. When Durant sank an 18-footer with 17 seconds to play in the half, the Rockets seized a 77-47 advantage.

The Kings fashioned one last surge early in the third quarter, using a 16-4 run that started with a Clifford 3 just before the intermission to cut the deficit to 16 points. But the Rockets closed that period with an 18-2 blitz capped by a Sengun dunk that extended the Houston lead to 108-76.

Sengun notched his 10th assist on an Aaron Holiday 3-pointer with 1:35 left in the third quarter.

–Field Level Media