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Stanford men's basketball coach Jerod Haase didn't recognize what his players we're doing during the first half of an eventual Stanford 78-62 nonconference victory over visiting Eastern Washington on Saturday.

"He told us we made up our own imaginary game plan," said Daejon Davis of the first half. "It was a complete lack of focus. We followed his more in the second half."

That proved a good idea as the Cardinal outscored the Eagles by a 51-30 margin. Oscar da Silva scored 13 of his 16 points in the second half, making four of his six shots. Stanford shot nearly 68 percent from the field over the final 20 minutes.

Davis scored 19 points and Cormac Ryan added 12 points, all on three pointers, for the Cardinal (5-4), who avenged last year's loss to the Eagles. KZ Okpala had 10.

"We knew we didn't play our best half of basketball," Ryan said. "We came back out with better attention to detail and played with fire."