SETTING THE SCENE
On the heels of its win over Utah, Stanford will look for its first road sweep of the Mountain schools since they joined the conference on Sunday. The Cardinal takes on Colorado on Feb. 5 at 4 p.m. PT on FS1.
THE OPENING TIP
• The Cardinal is 10-12 (4-7 Pac-12) this year, including five consecutive wins over Oregon State, Oregon, Cal, Chicago State and Utah (Jan. 19-Feb. 2). The team outscored the five by an average of 14 points per game.
• Through 22 games, Spencer Jones leads the team with 13.3 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 seventh in the league. He also ranks fourth in threes per game, eighth in offensive rebounds and sixth 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.
• Stanford ranks eighth 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 9.8 per night (10.0 in Pac-12 play).
• Stanford has won four straight Pac-12 games, over Oregon, Oregon State, Cal and Utah, 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.
FIVE WINS IN A ROW
Stanford men's basketball picked up five wins over the last two and a half weeks, downing the Beavers, 67-46, Ducks, 71-64, Golden Bears, 75-46 and Utes, 78-72, 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 16.2 points per game while Maxime Raynaud, Harrison Ingram and Michael Jones also average double figures during the winning streak. Raynaud is averaging 8.8 rebounds per game over the streak, while Ingram has added 6.4 boards and 4.4 assists.