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Back to the Bay for a three-game week, starting with a clash at Stanford on Tuesday. #InvestAndAttack

Date: Tuesday February 1st, 2022 (7PM Pac-12 Networks)

Opponent: Stanford Cardinal

Record: 12-7 (Conference: 5-4)

Standings: 7th in Pac-12

KenPom Ranking: #89

Opponent Team Stats: 67.9PPG/37.7RPG/13.4APG/6.0SPG/2.5BPG

Key Players:

Harrison Ingram
- Power Forward (6-foot-8/230lbs)
- Freshman
- 11.2PPG/6.8RPG/2.8APG
- 40.2%-FG/35.3%-3PT/72.1%-FT
Jaiden Delaire
- Small Forward (6-foot-9/215lbs)
- Senior
- 11.0PPG/4.4RPG/1.2APG/2.2TPG
- 42.1%-FG/36.7%-3PT/67.4%-FT

Expected Starting 5:

Guard Michael O’Connell
Forward Spencer Jones
Forward Jaiden Delaire
Forward Harrison Ingram
Center James Keefe

The postponed rivalry game in Palo Alto is finally here in a 3-game game week for the struggling Bears. Stanford is coming off a split in Southern California while completing the season sweep of SC. The Cardinal aren’t a great team by any stretch, but they do generally keep games close and have won a fair share of them. 7 of the 9 conference games were decided by 6 points or less. The other two games were blowout losses to Arizona and UCLA, the top 2 teams in the conference. Statistically, they are a very confusing team to try and analyze. Offensively they sit outside the top 120 in most of the statistical categories, but adjusted efficiency has them sitting at 117 on KenPom. Defensively, most stats sit outside the top 90 and the top 200, and YET, their adjusted efficiency on KenPom has them sitting at 63rd in the country. So which Stanford team will we get on Tuesday? Probably one that plays us close and forces our struggling offense to be EVEN more efficient than the efficient-intending-grind-out offense Mark Fox has the Bears playing. That’s not even considering the loss of Andre Kelly after he left the game against SC and did not return to the court.

Make sure to check out the recap from the Bears’ last game against USC.

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