CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Sunday was the night that Virginia's new arena lost its aura.

The Cavaliers couldn't make any stops down the stretch and suffered their first loss at John Paul Jones Arena, 76-75, on a basket by Stanford's Lawrence Hill with 0.9 seconds left.

In a game that featured 14 lead changes, Virginia had gone ahead for the last time when senior guard J.R. Reynolds hit the second of two free throws with 9.4 seconds remaining.

Reynolds' first free-throw attempt had bounced around the rim before falling to the side, his only miss in eight tries.

"If he'd made two free throws, we'd have been up two," Leitao said. "They [would have come] down, they would have scored, it would have went to overtime and they probably would have scored some more.

"We'd have been sitting here talking about the same thing, except it would have been in overtime. That's the way we were playing defense."

Stanford (9-4) scored on 11 of its last 14 possessions despite losing 7-foot, 245-pound freshman Brook Lopez to fouls with 6:58 remaining.

Lopez finished with 12 points, but the Cardinal had five other players in double figures, including his twin brother and fellow wide-body, Robin, who had a team-high 15 points.

The Cavaliers (9-4) outrebounded Stanford 32-31 but were victims of the Cardinal's 51.7 percent shooting from the field in the second half.

The winning shot was the game in a microcosm. Stanford's Fred Washington drove the length of the court after Reynolds' second free throw, forced the defense into the middle and fed Hill for a slightly contested floater that rolled over the front rim and into the cylinder.

Virginia has lost two games on last-second shots, including Tarrance Crump's bucket with 1.2 seconds left in Purdue's 61-59 win over visiting Virginia in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.

While Leitao lamented his team's defense Sunday, Stanford coach Trent Johnson praised his team's ability to execute.

"I don't know if we can play any better than how we played this evening," said Johnson, whose team was coming off a 67-63 loss Wednesday to California.

Virginia got a game-high 24 points from ACC scoring leader Sean Singletary, but fell behind 33-31 at the half as Nos. 2 and 3 scorers Reynolds and Mamadi Diane went scoreless, going a combined 0-for-8 from the field.

Reynolds sat out the final 8:24 of the first half after picking up his second foul, then picked up foul No. 3 after only 22 seconds of the second half. He immediately came out of the game and did not return until the 12:19 mark.

"I've just got to be smarter," Reynolds said.

Reynolds finished with 14 points, but his foul problems have been a constant in each of the Cavaliers' losses.

Reynolds has had two first-half fouls in all four of them.

"He got his first foul [early] and he got his second foul rather foolishly. reaching in on a loose ball, and that forced him to sit down," Leitao said.

"We'd been talking about it for two days: How are we going to play if we don't play as well [as UVa did against Gonzaga] at both ends of the floor?"

The Cavaliers had raced to a 34-point halftime lead Wednesday against Gonzaga and coasted to a 108-87 victory, thanks to a school-record 18 3-pointers. They had one 3-pointer in the first 15 minutes Sunday, although they finished 7-for-15 from behind the arc.

"Basically, you play how you practice and that's what happened," said Adrian Joseph, who gave UVa a third double-figure scorer, with 12 points off the bench. "We practiced sloppy the last couple of days and it showed up in the game."

Stanford MP FG FT R A F PT

B. Lopez 15 6-10 0-1 3 1 5 12

Hill 31 4-10 4-4 4 1 3 13

Washington 34 3-6 5-7 7 6 4 11

R. Lopez 34 6-10 3-6 6 3 2 15

Goods 30 4-12 0-0 3 1 1 11

Johnson 17 1-5 2-2 2 0 4 5

Fields 22 2-2 0-0 3 5 1 5

Brown 2 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0

Finger 14 1-3 2-2 0 0 4 4

Prowitt 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 2 0

Team 3

Totals 200 27-59 16-22 31 17 26 76

Virginia MP FG FT R A F PT

Harris 19 2-5 1-2 6 1 1 5

Mikalauskas 18 2-4 2-4 2 0 4 6

Reynolds 23 3-7 7-8 1 1 3 14

Diane 18 1-6 0-0 4 1 2 2

Singletary 38 6-14 9-10 4 2 3 24

Tucker 16 1-3 1-2 2 0 3 4

Soroye 15 0-1 2-2 3 0 2 2

Joseph 23 5-7 0-0 0 1 1 12

Cain 19 1-1 0-0 7 1 4 2

Tat 11 1-3 2-3 1 0 0 4

Team 2

Totals 200 22-51 24-31 32 7 23 75

Stanford 33 43 -- 76

Virginia 31 44 -- 75

3-point goals:Stanford 6-16 (Hill 1-3, Goods 3-7, Johnson 1-4, Fields 1-1, Brown 0-1), Virginia 7-15 (Reynolds 1-2, Diane 0-3, Singletary 3-6, Tucker 1-2, Joseph 2-2).

Turnovers: Stanford 10 (Goods 3), Virginia 12 (Singletary 3).

Blocked shots: Stanford 2 (R. Lopez), Virginia 1 (Cain).

Steals: Stanford 2 (B. Lopez), Virginia 5 (Tat 2).

Officials: Hicks, Kennedy, Nixon.

Attendance: 13,846.