No. 3 Stanford women win at No. 9 UCLA | College basketball

LOS ANGELES — Faced with a rare close Pac-10 game at the half, Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer implored Chiney Ogwumike to take over.

The freshman responded, scoring 13 of her 18 points in the second half to help No. 3 Stanford beat ninth-ranked UCLA 67-53 Sunday for its 18th victory in a row.

"We made it clear at halftime to Chiney," VanDerveer said of the decision to get her the ball in the post. "This is what you have to do."

Ogwumike also had 15 rebounds.

Kayla Pedersen and Toni Kokenis scored 13 points each and Jeanette Pohlen added 10 for the Cardinal (24-2 overall, 15-0 Pac-10), which was missing Chiney's older sister, Nnemkadi, because of an ankle injury.

With a chance at ending Stanford's 52-game conference winning streak, the Bruins drew 6,725 people for the biggest women's regular-season game at Pauley Pavilion in 13 years. Unfortunately, UCLA (22-3, 12-2) couldn't put the ball in the basket too often.

"We've got to make shots," coach Nikki Caldwell said. "We must have missed 20 layups."

The Bruins shot 31 percent from the field and lost to Stanford for the 10th consecutive time.

"They came out with a different sense of urgency than we did the second half," Caldwell said of the Cardinal. "They did an unbelievable job of forcing us on our heels."

Caldwell said the message for her team was a simple one: "If you want to play with the big dogs, your big dogs have to show up. Stanford has done it over the years."

Darxia Morris scored 14 points to lead UCLA.