Stanford will enter the Pac-12 women’s basketball tournament as a co-champion. The Cardinal’s claim to sole ownership was lost Saturday in an 84-78 defeat to Utah in a battle of Top 10 teams.

Eighth-ranked Utah (25-3, 15-3) gained a share of its first regular season title two years after going 4-15.

“I’m stubborn,” Utah coach Lynne Roberts said. “I wouldn’t believe that it couldn’t happen. I knew we could do it. I knew it could happen.”

Second-ranked Stanford (27-4, 15-3) was coming off a double-overtime win at No. 21 Colorado on Thursday night. But coach Tara VanDerveer offered no excuses for the road loss.

“Our lack of execution (hurt us),” she said. “They were the better team.”

Gianna Kneepkens scored a season-high 28 points to lead the Utes. Alissa Pili finished with 14 points and Kennedy McQueen had 10 points, five rebounds, four assists and six steals.

Hannah Jump led Stanford with 24 points, crossing the 1,000-point mark for her career. Cameron Brink had 14 points, 12 rebounds and six assists for the Cardinal. Haley Jones added nine points and eight rebounds.

Utah led the entire second half, but Stanford pulled within one at 73-72 after Brink and Jones combined to make four straight baskets. Kneepkens knocked down a 3-pointer to keep the Cardinal from erasing the deficit completely.

The Utes then forced three straight turnovers in the final minute to secure the win.

“They were more aggressive, and our turnovers were bad,” VanDerveer said.

The Utes made 5 of 7 shots to open the second half and went ahead 52-40 on back-to-back baskets from Kneepkens and Issy Palmer.

Second-chance baskets sparked a Stanford rally. The Cardinal scored 11 second-chance points in the third quarter after being held scoreless in that category during the first half. Stanford trimmed the deficit to a basket, cutting Utah’s lead to 59-57 on a layup from Jones.

But the Cardinal never got the lead.

“We caught them off-guard a little bit with how we were defending,” Roberts said. “21 turnovers is not normal for them. Conversely, we only had 10. I think that’s where the game was won.”

Stanford, by virtue of clinching its share of the regular-season title Thursday night, will enter the Pac-12 tournament as the No. 1 seed. The Cardinal will have a first-round bye and play Thursday against the winner of the Washington-Oregon quarterfinal.

Cal loses big to No. 21 Colorado >> Aaronette Vonleh scored 25 points shooting 11 for 14 and No. 21 Colorado closed the Pac-12 regular season by beating Cal 95-69 to end a two-game losing streak.

Jayda Curry scored 23 points for Cal and made all 11 of her foul shots. The sophomore made her first and only 3-pointer of the game with 57 seconds left to keep her streak of games with a 3-point make alive at 51. She finished 1 for 4.

Frida Formann scored 19 points for Colorado (22-7, 13-5).

Cal (13-16, 4-14) heads to the conference tournament in Las Vegas as the No. 10 seed and will play its first-round contest against the seventh seed Wednesday night. Cal ended the regular season losing four of five with all five opponents ranked.

NO. 4 UCONN 72, DEPAUL 69 >> Aaliyah Edwards scored 16 points, including two clutch baskets down the stretch, and the Huskies (26-5, 17-2 Big East) beat the host Blue Demons to clinch at least a share of the Big East regular season championship.

Men’s basketball

Cal falls at home to Washington State >> Mouhamed Gueye had 20 points and 10 rebounds, TJ Bamba scored 19 points, and Washington State defeated California 63-57 for the Cougars’ fifth straight win.

Cal made only four field goals in the first eight minutes of the second half but was able to tie the score at 39 on a pair of free throws by Kuany Kuany with 11:22 remaining.

The score was tied four times but the Cougars (15-15, 10-9 Pac-12) never trailed.

Joel Brown had 13 points, nine assists and seven rebounds for the Golden Bears (3-26, 2-16). Kuany had 11 points and nine rebounds, and Monty Bowser scored 10 points. Cal, which had a 12-game losing streak earlier in the season, has now last 13 in a row.

Arizona State 89, No. 7 Arizona 88 >> Desmond Cambridge Jr. hit a 60-foot shot at the buzzer and Arizona State rallied from a 10-point deficit to beat No. 7 Arizona.

The Wildcats (24-5, 13-5 Pac-12) built a 10-point lead midway through the second half before going more than six minutes without a field goal as Arizona State (20-9, 11-7) pulled ahead by one.

The Sun Devils went up 86-85 on Warren Washington’s layup with just a minute left, but Pelle Larsson put Arizona back up on a layup with 29 seconds left.

Arizona State’s DJ Horne missed a jumper with four seconds left and the Sun Devils had a final shot after Oumar Ballo hit 1 of 2 free throws.

Catching the ball with 2.4 seconds left, Cambridge launched a shot from beyond half-court to finish with 19 points and give the Sun Devils a big boost in their bid to make the NCAA Tournament.

NO. 2 ALABAMA 86, ARKANSAS 83 >> Brandon Miller scored 24 points and Mark Sears made 7 of 8 free throws over the final 1:04 to help the host Tide top the Razorbacks. Miller delivered his second straight huge game for the Crimson Tide (25-4, 15-1 Southeastern Conference) since police alleged in courtroom testimony that he brought a gun to former teammate Darius Miles, who is charged with capital murder in a fatal shooting.