In the first 5 minutes of tonight’s game against Stanford, Oregon State scored 2 points.
By the time 10 minutes had passed, the Beavers had scored 7 points.
While Oregon State’s offense was being shut down by the Stanford defense, the Stanford offense was behaving like a normal basketball team, and had scored 23 points.
The abysmal opening to the game doomed Oregon State; while they would get the Cardinal lead into single digits on a handful of occasions, they never came close to actually taking the lead. The final score was an 80-71 victory for Stanford, with the Beavers earning their third loss in a row, and their fifth loss in their last six games.