by Matt Harrington

photo credit: AP Photo–Oregon’s Chris Boucher (25) watches Utah’s Chris Reyes (20) and Dakarai Tucker defend Oregon’s Dillion Brooks as Brooks blows by towards the bucket on Sun 2-7-16

PALO ALTO–Somebody’s coming  into tonight’s game at Maple Pavilion hopping mad. The Oregon Ducks (20-5) who are coming to play Stanford tonight. In their last game last Thursday Oregon lost by 20 points at Cal. The Stanford Cardinal (11-11) are really going to be pushing tonight against Oregon as well after losing four straight. Stanford is going to have their hands full. They have been struggling defensively and they’ve been struggling offensively.

It’s really going to be tough for Stanford to right the ship and head coach Johnny Dawkins will have to work at getting the team on the same page. The Ducks coming off that loss to Cal and their going to be coming in hungry to beat Stanford. The Cardinal  might plan to prepare a trap game for Oregon where the Cardinal  sneak by and have an unsuspecting attack.

Oregon is coming up and they got chewed out by their head coach Dana Altman after the game on Thursday night and the Ducks are going to get going and that’s something that should concern Stanford.

Matt Harrington covers Stanford basketball for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to Matt’s weekly podcast right here just click below