SETTING THE SCENE
Returning to the road on Thursday, Feb. 10, Stanford travels to Oregon for a 6 p.m. tilt on ESPN2. The contest is the fifth for Stanford in 10 days, and the third in five days.
THE OPENING TIP
• Stanford is 14-9 (7-6 Pac-12) overall, with conference wins over Oregon, USC (twice), Washington State, Arizona State, Cal and Washington.
• Harrison Ingram leads the team with 11.5 points and 6.7 rebounds per night, while Jaiden Delaire and Spencer Jones are close behind at 11.1 and 10.8 per game, respectively. Michael O’Connell paces the squad with 3.9 assists per night.
• The Cardinal earned its fourth quadrant one win on Jan. 27 vs. USC, and is one of 24 teams nationally to meet that threshold. Stanford is one of two Pac-12 teams with at least four wins in the top tier (Arizona).
• Stanford is 10-3 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 5-3 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 20 of 23 games, and has only been outrebounded once, posting a plus-7.8 margin on the glass, which is 10th-best nationally. Stanford ranks in the top-20 nationally in offensive rebound 18th, 35.0%) and defensive rebound percentage (14th, 77.2%) per KenPom.
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT
Stanford is one of five power conference programs not to take a transfer this year (Stanford, Colorado, UConn, Villanova, Purdue). Only Stanford, Colorado and Purdue don’t have a Division I transfer on their entire roster, while Stanford hasn’t taken a transfer since Andrew Zimmerman in 2009-10, the longest gap nationally without taking a transfer among power conference teams by 10 years. More than 300 Division I programs took a transfer for the 2021-22 campaign.