SETTING THE SCENE
Stanford wraps up its weekend at home, playing host to No. 4/4 Arizona on Saturday, Feb. 11 at 5 p.m. on ESPN2. The Cardinal is looking for a top-five win at home for the second-straight season.
THE OPENING TIP
• The Cardinal is 10-14 (4-9 Pac-12) this year, including wins in five of the last seven games, and five consecutive wins from Jan. 19-Feb. 2. Stanford outscored the opponents in the five wins by 14 points per game.
• Through 24 games, Spencer Jones leads the team with 13.5 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 15.5 points per game, which ranks sixth in the league. He also ranks second in threes per game, sixth in 3-point percentage and eighth in offensive rebounds.
• 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.
• Stanford ranks 10th 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 is one of five players league-wide to score at least 31 in a game this season and ranks second on the team in scoring at 9.6 per night, tied with Ingram.
• Stanford had its four-game Pac-12 win streak snapped on Feb. 5 at Colorado, with the Cardinal beating Cal, Oregon, Oregon State and Utah over the stretch, where the Cardinal allowed just 57.0 points per game and a 35.6 percent mark from the floor while shooting 48.4 percent itself and 40.4 percent from 3-point range.
RANKINGS REPORT
Stanford is looking for its first ranked win this season, and its first over a top-5 opponent since downing No. 5 USC last season at Maples, 75-69. The Cardinal boasts six ranked wins since the calendar turned to 2020, and two last season. The Cardinal is 0-3 against ranked foes in 2022-23, falling to then No. 17 San Diego State, No. 21 UCLA and No. 7 Texas. The Cardinal is facing an Arizona side ranked in the top-5 nationally for the fourth-consecutive meeting. A win on Saturday would be Stanford's fourth in the last eight ranked matchups at Maples Pavilion.