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STANFORD MEN’S BASKETBALL GoStanford.com Twitter/Instagram: @StanfordBball/Facebook: Stanford Basketball Doug Drabik (Email: [email protected]; Phone: 650‐683‐5528) Pac‐12 students are known for their athletic success, but they are also impressive, complete people with outside interests, diverse backgrounds, extracurricular activities, interesting families, busy schedules, and full lives. The release for this week’s competition is focused on who Stanford students are in the classroom and community. ACADEMIC SPOTLIGHT TOP PERFORMERS Senior Grant Verhoeven – Earth Systems major Dorian Pickens (3.37 cumulative GPA) is close to declaring Focusing on sustainable food and agriculture Communications as his major. He has studied the power that social Project media and effective marketing can Grant and his group traveled to Watsonville, Calif., where they used Electrical have on a product. Social media is Resistivity Tomography (a series of electrodes which are metal spikes about a foot into quickly becoming the best way for the ground) to send electrical signals from spike to spike. Through this, the group flow of information in the world. studied the frequency of each electrical signal to determine the type of soil. Dorian is looking at potential The area in Watsonville, close the ocean, allowed Grant to study the effects of the internship opportunities focusing drought in the ground. Because of lack of rain water, farmers had to to use a lot of on marketing of sports groundwater for irrigation. As they extracted the groundwater in the wells, they merchandise. noticed the barrier is breaking between the ocean water and groundwater aquifer, creating a problem called Saltwater Intrusion. In some instances, the water pulled up from the well was saltwater. Grant and his group tried to determine how far the saltwater was on the property. COMMUNITY CORNER HOBBY HUDDLE Members of the program visited the Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula, playing Dorian Pickens owns more than basketball and a variety of other activities. 150 pairs of shoes, mostly sneakers. He stores them both at his parent’s house in Phoenix and his apartment The team also visited the local Ronald McDonald House in December. at Stanford. Several other individuals go to the Rosco Allen visited Bubb Elementary School, reading books to a class, playing beach in Half Moon Bay and in interactive games and discussing the rewards of hard work with the group. Santa Cruz to try surfing. Marcus Sheffield visited Escondido Elementary, reading books to a class, playing interactive games and discussing the rewards of hard work with the group. NUTRITIONAL CORNER A sample of different dishes enjoyed by the Cardinal during training table and pre‐game meals: FAMILY TIES Egg white scramble, spinach bowl, fruit, vodka pasta, snapper, Marcus and Malcom Allen’s mother, Trina, was a standout gymnast at Stanford where sea bass she graduated in 1982. Their father, Carl, was a football player at Vanderbilt. Grant Verhoeven’s father, Pete played for four teams during a six‐year NBA career. Stanford University | #complete12 Stanford Athletic Communications Doug Drabik • Assistant Director Stanford Cell: 650.683.5528 MEN’S BASKETBALL [email protected] Washington State (9-16, 1-12) • Feb. 18 • Beasley Coliseum • Pullman, Wash. • 7 p.m. • Pac-12 Networks RESULTS Overall ................................................................................12-11 Stanford ................................................................................................12-11, 5-7 Pac-12 Pac-12 ....................................................................................5-7 Washington State .................................................................................9-16, 1-12 Pac-12 Home ..................................................................................10-5 Series Record .................................................................................Stanford leads, 74-60 Away ....................................................................................1-5 Location ................................................... Pullman, Wash. • Beasley Coliseum [11,671] Neutral .................................................................................... 1-1 Television ................................................Pac-12 Networks [Jim Watson, Kevin O’Neill] SCHEDULE Radio ................................................................KNBR 1050 AM [John Platz, Scott Reiss] N13 Green Bay (1) .........................W, 93-89 (OT) N15 Charleston Southern (1) ................W, 93-59 N19 SMU [ESPN2] ................................. L, 85-70 TRIP TO THE EVERGREEN STATE N22 at Saint Mary’s [ESPNU] .........................L, 78-61 Coming off a 76-72 victory over No. 11/12 Oregon this past Saturday, Stanford hits the road this week with N26 vs. #8/9 Villanova (2) [ESPN2] ................L, 59-45 a trip to the Evergreen State. The Cardinal will face Washington State Thursday at 7 p.m. in Pullman and N27 vs. Arkansas (2) [ESPNU] ............................W, 69-66 Washington Saturday at 5 p.m. in Seattle. Stanford will play four of its final six regular-season games on D12 Dartmouth [P12NET] ......................W, 64-50 the road, closing the regular-season slate against Arizona State and Arizona in the Grand Canyon state. D15 DePaul [FS1] ..................................W, 79-60 D19 RV/RV Texas [ESPN2] ...................... L, 75-73 ROSCO ALLEN’S LAST SIX GAMES D21 Sacramento State [P12NET] ............W, 70-60 Senior Rosco Allen (15.4 ppg overall) is averaging 19.7 ppg in his last six contests. Allen has led or tied for D27 Carroll College [P12NET] ................W, 83-38 the team lead in scoring in each of the last six games. Five of his six career 20-point games have come in J1 • #21/22 Utah [ESPNU] .............W, 70-68 (OT) the last 10 contests, including a career-high tying 25 points at Colorado and against No. 11 Oregon. J3 • RV/RV Colorado [ESPNU] ............... L, 56-55 J6 • at RV/RV Oregon State [ESPNU] ......... W, 78-72 J10 • at RV/RV Oregon [ESPNU] .................... L, 71-58 ALLEN’S SECOND-HALF PRODUCTION J14 • -/RV California [FS1] .....................W, 77-71 Of Rosco Allen’s 118 total points in his last six games, 86 have come in the second half, including 20 points J21 • #12/11 Arizona [P12NET] .............. L, 71-57 in the second period at Colorado on Jan. 27 and all 16 in the final period at California on Feb. 6. J23 • Arizona State [P12NET] ................W, 75-73 J27 • at RV/- Colorado [P12NET] ...................L, 91-75 SHEFFIELD IN PAC-12 PLAY J30 • at RV/RV Utah [P12NET] ....................... L, 96-74 Freshman Marcus Sheff ield is averaging 9.9 points in 25.4 minutes per game in 11 Pac-12 F6 • at -/RV California [ESPN2] ................... L, 76-61 contests, aft er averaging 4.0 points in 11.2 minutes in the Cardinal’s 11 nonconference games. F11 • Oregon State [FS1] ....................... L, 62-50 Sheff ield was inserted into the starting lineup three games ago. F13 • #11/12 Oregon [P12NET] ...............W, 76-72 F18 • at Washington State [P12NET] ............... 7 p.m. F20 • at Washington [P12NET] .........................5 p.m. MOST STEALS IN 19 YEARS F25 • USC [P12NET] .................................8 p.m. Stanford’s 6.9 steals-per-game average is its highest since the 1996-97 season (6.9 spg). With F27 • UCLA [FOX] ................................ 1:30 p.m. 159 steals already this season, the Cardinal is on pace to record at least 200 steals for the M3 • at Arizona State [FS1] ............................. 8 p.m. fourth time in the last five seasons. The 6.9 spg average is fourth-best in the Pac-12. M5 • at Arizona [CBS] ...................................... 1 p.m. M9-12 Pac-12 Tournament (3) ................................ TBD STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE All Times Pacific | • Pac-12 Conference | Home games in BOLD Stanford has played the second-toughest schedule in the nation, according to ESPN’s Daily (1) NIT Season Tip-Off - campus sites – Stanford, Calif. RPI on Feb. 16. The Cardinal has played four top-25 teams, with victories over No. 21/22 Utah (2) NIT Season Tip-Off – Barclays Center - Brooklyn, N.Y. on Jan. 1 and No. 11/12 Oregon last time out. Stanford has four RPI top-40 wins already with (3) Pac-12 Tournament – MGM Grand Garden Arena - Las Vegas, Nev. victories over Oregon (4), Utah (16), California (23) and Oregon State (38) in the RPI rankings on Feb. 16. PROJECTED LINEUP No. Name Pos. Yr. Ht. Wt. PPG. RPG. Notes 1 Christian Sanders G Sr. 6-4 185 4.3 2.2 Team-best 2.7 apg, re-inserted into the starting lineup last time out against Oregon 14 Marcus Sheff ield G Fr. 6-5 180 7.1 2.7 Lone freshman to play in all 23 games, inserted into starting lineup last three games 25 Rosco Allen F Sr. 6-9 220 15.4 6.3 Ranks sixth in the Pac-12 in scoring in conference games and 10th overall 10 Michael Humphrey F So. 6-9 218 9.1 5.9 Eighth in Pac-12 in blocks (1.3 bpg), sealed win over Oregon with block in final seconds 30 Grant Verhoeven C Sr. 6-9 245 3.4 2.3 Career-high 13 points last time out against Oregon, averaging 11.5 ppg in last two games OFF THE BENCH 15 Marcus Allen G Jr. 6-3 190 11.5 4.0 Third in the Pac-12 in steals (1.7 spg), second on team in scoring among regular starters 11 Dorian Pickens G So. 6-5 210 11.4 3.4 Second on the team with 36 three-point field goals 3 Malcolm Allen G Jr. 6-1 180 2.4 0.8 Averaging 11.0 minutes per game, nine points in 20 minutes at California 20 Josh Sharma C Fr. 7-0 210 1.6 1.5 Career-best eight points in six minutes at Oregon State 21 Cameron Walker F Fr. 6-7 200 1.2 1.2 Totaled 10 of his 22 points on season in last five games 22 Reid Travis F So. 6-8 245 12.8 7.1 Out indefinitely with stress reaction in left leg, has missed last 15 games 2015-16 Stanford Men’s Basketball Game Notes at Washington State #GoStanford AGAINST WASHINGTON STATE QUICK FACTS Stanford leads the all-time series, 74-60, and has won five of the last six meetings between the two teams. The Cardinal had its five-game winning streak against the Cougars snapped with an Location .................................................