SETTING THE SCENE
Stanford will tip off in 2022-23 with the strongest returning core in the Pac-12 and an exciting group of newcomers. Jerod Haase begins his seventh season at the helm of the program, which looks to rise to the top of the Pac-12 and reach the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2014.
THE OPENING TIP
• Stanford went 16-16 last season, which came to a close in the Pac-12 Tournament following a buzzer-beating win over Arizona State and a narrow loss to No. 2 Arizona. The season featured Stanford’s first win over an AP top-five opponent since 2007 and its first road ranked win since 2014.
• Spencer Jones led last year’s team with 12.0 points per game, Harrison Ingram paced the squad with 6.7 rebounds per night, and Michael O’Connell dished a team-leading 3.6 assists per game. Stanford is one of two power conference programs to return eight of its top nine scorers (TCU).
• Ingram, who was Stanford’s first Pac-12 Freshman of the Year since Casey Jacobsen in 2000, withdrew his name from the 2022 NBA Draft to return to The Farm for his sophomore campaign.
• The Cardinal returns eight of its top nine rotation players from a year ago, while also bringing in the program’s first transfer in 12 years and the first graduate transfer in program history in Michael Jones (Davidson).
• Stanford leads the all-time series with Pacific by a substantial margin, 33-3. Stanford has won 18 straight meetings with the Tigers, with the last defeat coming during the 1933-34 campaign.
JONESING FOR JONES
Spencer Jones garnered his first All-Pac-12 award with honorable mention selections to the all-conference and all-defense teams last season. The swingman was the team’s leading scorer at 12.0 points per game, while averaging 4.5 rebounds per night. He was one of six players league-wide last season to earn all-conference and all-defense honors. Establishing himself as one of the best 3-point shooters in program history, the sniper ended the season in ninth on the all-time Cardinal list with 189 made threes.
Jones, who will be one of the top seniors in the Pac-12 this season, averaged 22.5 points per game in March last season and 27.0 points per game in the Pac-12 Tournament.