SETTING THE SCENE
Capping the Pac-12 regular season in Eugene, Stanford (20-10, 9-8 Pac-12) travels to No. 13/13 Oregon (23-7, 12-5 Pac-12) on Saturday night at 8 p.m. The action will air on Fox Sports 1.
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 19th-best national mark in field goal percentage (58.9), and was the Pac-12 Player of the Week for Jan. 27-Feb. 2.
• Stanford topped the then-No. 11/12 Ducks at Maples Pavilion on Feb. 1, 70-60.
• Stanford held 12 of its 13 non-conference opponents below 70 points and has limited its Pac-12 foes to an average of 64.3 points per game, which leads the league. The program boasts the best overall scoring defense in the Pac-12 (61.9), and the 11th-best nationally. As of March 6, KenPom rates the Cardinal defense as the sixth-most efficient in the country.
• The Cardinal holds the Pac-12’s fourth-best scoring margin in conference play (plus-4.2 points per game). Each of the conference losses came by single digits, while the team has recorded double-digit wins over UCLA, Oregon, Cal and Washington State (twice).
• Oscar da Silva stands just 20 points shy of becoming the 48th member of Stanford’s 1,000-point club. He will become the first Cardinal player to do so since three reached the milestone in the class of 2018: Reid Travis (1,427), Dorian Pickens (1,186) and Michael Humphrey (1,037).
STIFLING THE DUCKS
Stanford rolled to a 70-60 victory at home over Oregon to kick off the month of February, led by Oscar da Silva’s career-best 27 points and 15 rebounds. The Cardinal defense held the Ducks to just 32.8 percent shooting from the floor, including 5-for-21 performances from Payton Pritchard and Chris Duarte. The win on Feb. 1 was Stanford’s highest-ranked win since Feb. 13, 2016, which also came against an Oregon team ranked 11/12, 76-72. The Cardinal has won two of the last three meetings with Oregon, and is searching for its first victory in Eugene since Jan. 12, 2014 (82-80).