SETTING THE SCENE
Stanford takes its four-game winning streak on the road to the mountains, first with a trip to Salt Lake City to face Utah on Thursday, Feb. 2 at 5 p.m. PT. The action will air on Pac-12 Network.
THE OPENING TIP
• The Cardinal is 9-12 (3-7 Pac-12) this year, including four consecutive wins over Oregon State, Oregon, Chicago State and California (Jan. 19-28). The team outscored the quartet by an average of 16 points per game.
• Through 21 games, Spencer Jones leads the team with 12.9 points per game, and joined Stanford’s 1,000-point club on Dec. 29 with a 25-point outing against Colorado. Jones paces the program in Pac-12 play with 14.9 points per game, which ranks eighth in the league. He also ranks fourth in threes per game and sixth in offensive rebounds and eighth in free throw percentage.
• Harrison 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. He is the first Pac-12 Freshman of the Year to return since Jahii Carson (Arizona State) in 2013-14.
• The Cardinal returns eight of its top nine rotation players from a year ago, ranking sixth nationally in minutes continuity, per KenPom, while also bringing in the program’s first transfer in 12 years and the first graduate transfer in program history in Michael Jones (Davidson). Jones had a game to remember in the season opener, with his 31 points the most by a Stanford player in his team debut on record. The 31 points remain tied for the best single-game mark by a Pac-12 player this season.
• Stanford has won three straight Pac-12 games, over Oregon, Oregon State and Cal, where the Cardinal allowed just 52.0 points per game and a 34.2 percent mark from the floor while shooting 47.1 percent itself.
FOUR WINS IN A ROW
Stanford men's basketball picked up four wins over the last two weeks, downing the Beavers, 67-46, Ducks, 71-64, and Golden Bears, 75-46, in Pac-12 play. The 46 points allowed (2x) matched the lowest in a Pac-12 game under head coach Jerod Haase, equaling the total in the win at Oregon State in 2017. Spencer Jones has led the effort with 14.8 points per game while Maxime Raynaud and Harrison Ingram are close behind at 12.5 and 12.0 points, respectively. Raynaud is averaging 9.0 rebounds per game over the streak, while Ingram has added 6.8 boards and 4.0 assists per night.