SETTING THE SCENE
The Cardinal wraps up its regular season on Saturday in Eugene, as Stanford takes on Oregon at 1 p.m. on March 4. The action will air nationally on CBS.
THE OPENING TIP
• The Cardinal is 13-17 (7-12 Pac-12) this year, with eight wins since Jan. 19, starting with a sweep of Oregon State and Oregon at home. Stanford added quadrant one wins over the stretch over Utah and No. 4 Arizona.
• Through 30 games, Spencer Jones leads the team with 13.7 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 15.2 points per game, which ranks eighth in the league. He also ranks fourth in threes per game.
• 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 11th 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 third on the team in scoring at 9.6 per night, behind Spencer Jones (13.7) and Ingram (10.2).
• Brandon Angel has turned on the jets over the last nine games, posting 12.9 points, 4.6 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game since Feb. 1. He was one of three players league-wide to meet those benchmarks in the month of February, and the only one to also shoot greater than 50 percent from the floor.
• Stanford won the first meeting with Oregon on The Farm, 71-64, led by 16 points from Spencer Jones, 11 from Harrison Ingram and 10 from Michael Jones. The Cardinal held Oregon to 37.9 percent from the floor.
SHOOTERS SHOOT
Stanford enters Saturday's clash leading the Pac-12 in 3-point shooting in conference play at 37.7 percent, while the team is a combined 41.9 percent in conference games since the opening conference win over Oregon State on Jan. 19. Seven qualified players league-wide sport a 3-point percentage north of 40 percent in conference play, three of which are Stanford Cardinal. Max Murrell leads the Pac-12 at 43.9 percent, while Michael Jones is shooting 42.3 percent and Spencer Jones 40.2 percent from deep. Additionally, Brandon Angel is shooting 40.0 percent in Pac-12 play and Ryan Agarwal is at 43.5 percent on a smaller number of attempts. Stanford ranks second with 8.5 threes per game against Pac-12 foes, while holding the nation's third best 3-point percentage since Feb. 1 (43.9%, trails Toledo & Colgate).
A BLOSSOMING OFFENSE
The Cardinal offense has flipped a switch since Jan. 19, where the team has gone 8-5 after a slow start. According to Bart Torvik, the Cardinal has the nation's 14th-most efficient offense since Jan. 19, and the seventh-ranked offense since Feb. 1. On the whole season, Torvik ranks the Cardinal offense at No. 35, while KenPom slots Stanford in at No. 42.