SETTING THE SCENE
Stanford (15-5, 4-3 Pac-12) looks to get back on the right foot as No. 11/12 Oregon visits Maples Pavilion on Saturday, Feb. 1 at 3 p.m. The contest will air on Pac-12 Networks.
THE OPENING TIP
• Stanford fell to fourth in the conference standings at 4-3, and trails league-leading Oregon, by one in the loss column. The Cardinal’s .750 overall winning percentage ranks fourth in the Pac-12.
• Junior Oscar da Silva leads the team with 16.3 points per game, a mark which ranks 10th in the conference. He also holds the 20th-best national mark in field goal percentage (61.4).
• Stanford held 12 of its 13 non-conference opponents below 70 points and has limited its Pac-12 foes to an average of 61.4 points per game, which paces the conference. The program also boasts the best overall scoring defense in the Pac-12 (59.7), and the ninth-best nationally.
• Freshmen Spencer Jones and Tyrell Terry have seen blazing starts from beyond the arc in Pac-12 play, making 18 and 17 threes, respectively, and combining for 45.8 percent from deep. Jones leads the league with a 45.6 percent mark across 20 total games, which is ninth-best nationally.
• Stanford won the last meeting with the Ducks at Maples Pavilion, 96-61, on Feb. 3, 2018, and has won three of the last four in California.
da SILVA’s STRONG START
Picking up where he left off in 2018-19, Oscar da Silva has emerged as Stanford’s top scorer (16.3 ppg) and rebounder (5.9 rpg). Reaching double-figure scoring in 17 of 20 games, da Silva is shooting 61.4 percent overall and has been the Cardinal’s most frequent visitor to the foul line, making 68-for-88 for 77.3 percent. Against UNC Wilmington on Dec. 1, da Silva poured in a career-high 26 points after making 11-14 from the field, while the Munich, Germany native scored a career-best eight points from the free throw line against Kansas Dec. 29.
da Silva has two 20-point outings in the past three games, while averaging 8.0 rebounds over the same stretch.