SETTING THE SCENE
Entering the final week of conference play with a four-game win streak intact, Stanford (20-9, 9-7 Pac-12) heads to Oregon State (15-13, 5-11 Pac-12) on Thursday evening. The action will air on Pac-12 Network.
THE OPENING TIP
• Junior Oscar da Silva leads the team with 16.1 points per game, a mark which ranks 10th in the conference. He also holds the 18th-best national mark in field goal percentage (58.8), and was the Pac-12 Player of the Week for Jan. 27-Feb. 2.
• Stanford fell in the first contest with the Beavers, 68-63. It was the first defeat in the last five meetings.
• Stanford held 12 of its 13 non-conference opponents below 70 points and has limited its Pac-12 foes to an average of 64.1 points per game, which leads the league. The program boasts the best overall scoring defense in the Pac-12 (61.7), and the 10th-best nationally. As of March 3, KenPom rates the Cardinal defense as the sixth-most efficient in the country.
• The Cardinal holds the Pac-12’s third-best scoring margin in conference play (plus-4.7 points per game). Each of the conference losses came by single digits, while the team has recorded double-digit wins over Cal, Washington State (twice), UCLA and Oregon.
• Stanford won its first four contests over Oregon State in the Jerod Haase era, and has not lost in Corvallis since the 2014 campaign. The Cardinal’s last trip to Gill ended with an 83-60 victory, led by 23 points, nine rebounds and seven assists from Oscar da Silva.
TWICE IS NICE
Following an exciting weekend at home, first-year guard Tyrell Terry was named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Week for Feb. 24 - March 1. The Minneapolis native kicked off the week with a career-best 27 points against Utah, including seven 3-pointers, and followed with 12 points against Colorado. The honor was teh second of the season for Terry, who was also honored by the conference on Jan. 13. He is the fourth freshman in the conference this season to win multiple awards, joined by Zeke Nnaji (Arizona), Isaiah Stewart (Washington) and Onyeka Okongwu (USC).