SETTING THE SCENE
Honoring its senior class in its final Pac-12 home contest, Stanford men’s basketball welcomes Colorado on Saturday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. The action will air on ESPNU.
THE OPENING TIP
• Stanford is 15-11 (8-8 Pac-12) overall, with conference wins over Oregon, USC (twice), Washington State, Arizona State, Cal, Washington and Oregon State.
• Harrison Ingram leads the team with 11.3 points and 6.6 rebounds per night, while Jaiden Delaire and Spencer Jones are close behind at 10.8 and 10.6 points per game, respectively. Michael O’Connell paces the squad with 3.7 assists per night.
• The Cardinal earned its fourth quadrant one win on Jan. 27 vs. USC, and is one of 31 teams nationally to meet that threshold. Stanford is one of three Pac-12 teams with at least four wins in the top tier (ARI, ASU).
• Stanford is 10-4 at home this season, with six of the wins coming in double-digit fashion. The Cardinal remained unbeaten in November home games since 2018 (12-0), and got off to a 7-0 start at home for the second time in three seasons. The Cardinal is 5-4 in home Pac-12 games, including a buzzer-beating win over Oregon on Dec. 12 and an upset over then-No. 5 USC on Jan. 11.
• The Cardinal has outrebounded its opponent in 23 of 26 games, and has only been outrebounded once, posting a plus-7.9 margin on the glass, which is 10th-best nationally. Stanford ranks in the top-20 nationally in offensive rebound (17th, 35.1%) and defensive rebound percentage (16th, 77.1%) per KenPom.
THANK YOU, SENIORS
Stanford will honor seven dedicated seniors prior to Saturday’s contest: academic seniors Sam Beskind and Keenan Fitzmorris, true seniors Jaiden Delaire and Lukas Kisunas, fifth-year senior Daniel Begovich, and team managers Jordan Barajas and Logan Hatch. Delaire leads all seniors with 889 career points entering Saturday’s contest, while all five players have earned at least one athletic or academic honor during their careers on The Farm.