SETTING THE SCENE
Stanford men's basketball will celebrate its senior class on Sunday, Feb. 26 when it welcomes Washington to Maples Pavilion. The contest will tip off at 3 p.m. on FS1.
THE OPENING TIP
• The Cardinal is 11-17 (5-12 Pac-12) this year, including wins in five of the last seven at Maples Pavilion, and five consecutive wins from Jan. 19-Feb. 2. Stanford beat No. 4/4 Arizona on Feb. 11, 88-79.
• Through 28 games, Spencer Jones leads the team with 13.0 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 14.3 points per game, which ranks 11th in the league. He also ranks sixth 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 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 third on the team in scoring at 9.8 per night, behind Spencer Jones (13.0) and Ingram (10.2).
• Stanford enters the game winners of five of the last seven outings at home. The Cardinal is shooting 46.4 percent from the floor over its last seven games at Maples Pavilion, and 40.8 percent from 3-point range, while allowing just 40.1 percent from its opponents.
• The Cardinal has won seven of the last eight meetings with Washington in the Bay Area and six of the last seven at Maples Pavilion. Stanford won by 18 points over the Huskies at home last season.
SIXTH MAN OF THE YEAR?
Michael Jones has emerged as one of the leading Pac-12 options off the bench, entering Thursday's tilt ranked first in scoring off the bench in conference play among qualified players (9.9). Jones leads USC's Reese Dixon-Waters by 0.5 points per game, while looking at the whole season, Jones' 9.3 points per game off the bench leads all qualified Pac-12 players by 3.1 points, besting second-place Koren Johnson from Washington (6.2).