SETTING THE SCENE
After playing five of its last seven games on the road, Stanford (16-7, 5-5 Pac-12) returns home for a two-game homestand, beginning with Arizona State on Thursday, Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. on ESPN2.
THE OPENING TIP
• Stanford dropped a pair on the road over the weekend to Utah and Colorado, and will tip-off Thursday night looking to jump back into the Pac-12’s top five with a win.
• Junior Oscar da Silva leads the team with 15.9 points per game, a mark which ranks 10th in the conference. He also holds the 24th-best national mark in field goal percentage (60.2), and was the Pac-12 Player of the Week for Jan. 27-Feb. 2.
• Stanford held 12 of its 13 non-conference opponents below 70 points and has limited its Pac-12 foes to an average of 63.5 points per game, which paces the conference. The program also boasts the best overall scoring defense in the Pac-12 (60.8), and the ninth-best nationally. As of Feb. 12, KenPom rates the Cardinal defense as the seventh-most efficient in the country.
• The Cardinal cannot be left alone beyond the arc, as the program holds the 15th-best 3-point percentage in the country. Three Cardinal players boast 3-point percentages above 40%: Isaac White (44.6), Spencer Jones (43.6) and Tyrell Terry (40.2). Jones ranks 12th nationally and first in the Pac-12 in 3-point shooting among qualified players (min 2.5 made per game).
• Stanford has won three of the past four meetings with the Sun Devils, including a season sweep in 2017-18 and a split a year ago. The Cardinal picked up a 14-point win at home a year ago, 85-71.
MAN TO MAN
The Cardinal has held the top five scorers in the league, Payton Pritchard (Oregon), Tres Tinkle (Oregon State), CJ Elleby (Washington State) and Timmy Allen (Utah) to just 28.3 percent shooting from the field. The fifth member of the Pac-12’s top five in scoring, Remy Martin (19.3 ppg), visits campus Thursday. Stanford has allowed just five players to reach 20 points this season: Butler’s Kamar Baldwin (22), USC’s Onyeka Okongwu (22), Oregon State’s Jarod Lucas (21) and Colorado’s McKinley Wright (21) and D’Shawn Schwartz (20).