CORVALLIS, Ore. — Stanford men’s basketball used an 18-1 second-half run to overcome sloppy, listless play Saturday night, downing pesky Oregon State, 67-56. Sophomore forward Lawrence Hill led the way with 24 points, including 11 in the game’s final eight minutes.

“When the ball goes down, it hides a lot of your deficiencies, and that’s lucky for us because we weren’t very good at times tonight,” Stanford head coach Trent Johnson said.

Trailing 48-43 with nine minutes to go, Stanford scored two layups to cut the deficit to one, and two free throws to jump to a 49-48 lead with 5:39 left.

But then came the real fireworks.

After a block by freshman center Robin Lopez, Hill buried a three-pointer to put the Cardinal ahead by four. After blocking Marcel Jones, Hill hit another three just a minute later to put Stanford up 55-49 with 3:11 to go. And after a three from sophomore guard Anthony Goods, Hill nailed yet another three to put the Cardinal ahead 61-49 with 1:24 to go.

That final shot capped Hill’s night at 9-of-15 shooting and 5-of-9 from deep with eight rebounds and gave Stanford its first double-digit lead since 2006 and, most importantly, an all-but-certain victory.

“If he missed 15 shots, he’ll shoot the next one like he just hit 15,” said Goods of Hill. “That’s a good quality to have, because he doesn’t care. He just shoots. He just scores.”

The Stanford defense stiffened when its offense surged. They harassed the Beavers into bad looks and blocked shots, holding them without a field goal for 8:07 down the stretch run. Marcel Jones (20 points, eight rebounds, seven steals), the Beavers’ leading scorer, finally hit a three to snap the drought with 1:06 to go, but it was too little too late.

The Cardinal had the game in hand with a 61-52 lead, and Goods put the final nails in the coffin by scoring seven of his 18 points in the last two minutes.

Goods said senior forward Fred Washington’s defense and a focus on offensive rebounding helped trigger the run.

“Late in the game, we knew it was coming to a point where it was do-or-die,” Goods said. “The last eight minutes, coming out of a timeout, I told them we had to play like it was the last two. And we came out there, Lawrence had some big blocks, the twins had some big blocks and we took care of the ball.”

The first 32 minutes went far worse than the final eight. Stanford turned the ball over on its first four possessions — setting the tone for an 18-turnover night. Incredibly, the Cardinal (12-5, 4-3 Pacific-10 Conference) still jumped to an early 11-2 lead, only for Oregon State (9-11, 1-6) to visibly out-hustle the Cardinal for the rest of the period. The Beavers scored seven straight to cut the lead to two, and ended the first half ahead, 34-29.

“Our margin of error is extremely, extremely small and when we don’t take care of it, when we don’t rebound it, when we don’t defend, oh boy, we’re not very good,” said Johnson, who added that the team lost its cool as the game grew physical.

At halftime then, fans — and players — might have expected a tirade from the coach, but he said nary a word. Instead, he just wrote the team’s stats on the board, and let the numbers do the talking.

“I didn’t need to say much, they knew how bad they were playing and sometimes you can over-coach and over-talk it,” he said. “They were the aggressor. They were knocking us around.”

Robin Lopez, who entered the game averaging 11 points and seven boards per game, managed just three points and four rebounds in a quiet 29 minutes. Though Hill, Goods and freshman forward Brook Lopez (12 points, 5-of-6 shooting, nine rebounds) picked up the scoring slack on Saturday, the Stanford guards’ inability to find the Lopez twins with entry passes is a quickly-growing concern for the team.

“We just have to work at involving Robin and Brook a lot more so they can be more effective,” said Hill, who added that perimeter players needed to work on their positioning so that defenders would not be able to double-team the freshman duo as easily. “They only got eight shots off.”

Despite free tickets for students, Gill Coliseum was one-third empty and relatively quiet. Over the years, Stanford has played sluggishly in Corvallis, with the long trip and lackluster atmosphere often cited as reasons.