SETTING THE SCENE
After a split in the mountains last week, Stanford men's basketball returns home, where it has won four in a row, to face Arizona State on Thursday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. The action will be broadcast on FS1.
THE OPENING TIP
• The Cardinal is 10-13 (4-8 Pac-12) this year, including wins in five of the last six games, and five consecutive wins from Jan. 19-Feb. 2. Stanford outscored the opponents in the five wins by 14 points per game.
• Through 23 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 15.3 points per game, which ranks seventh in the league. He also ranks fifth in threes per game, eighth in offensive rebounds and steals and third 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 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 9.8 per night (10.0 in Pac-12 play).
• 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.
HERE COMES HARRISON
Harrison Ingram has impacted all parts of the floor over the last seven games, scoring 10.7 points with 6.6 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game while shooting 44 percent from the floor and 35 percent from 3-point range. Coming alive after a slow start, Ingram ranks 17th in conference play in rebounds and ninth in assists - one of three players to rank top-20 in rebounding and top-10 in assists (Rollie Worster, Utah; Drew Peterson, USC). Ingram also slots in seventh in assist to turnover ratio (1.9).