Stanford Basketball

<p>Anybody follow the team?</p>

<p>Tonight Cardinals beat Huskies, so now Stanford 6-3 in Pac 10 tournament!!!!!! *woot *woot</p>

<p>Yea, lots of people do. So does Tiger Woods.</p>

<p>It was awesome. The best game I've seen. We stormed the court. Go Cardinal!</p>

<p>The team is not considered even a bubble team for the playoff however. Stanford has to win pretty much every regular-season game from now on; otherwise, the only way to get to the tournament is to win the Pac-10 championship.</p>

<p>I don't necessarily think that is true Sam. If we can get some strong showings against the top teams and beat all of the teams we're supposed to beat, we may have a shot at the bubble given strong Pac-10 tourney play (semi's/finals). We absolutely have to beat UCLA at home though, I think that is a make or break game for the season.</p>

<p>Go Card! (Chris Hernandez is incredible... he hit a game winning shot against Oregon, at Oregon, yesterday)</p>

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Eddie</p>

<p>I may be a little bit too conservative. But if you look at the record, Stanford is currnetly only 11-7 overall. Given Pac10 being considered weak (low RPI ranks) this year, I'd say you need to pass at least the 20-win mark to get into the tourney. There are only 9 games left (excluding the Pac10 tourney games) though. That's why I think Stanford has to win all the remaining games. If they lose one game somewhere, they need to beat the Zags to make it up! If they lose 2, I think they will be done unless they are lucky to win the Pac10 tourney. </p>

<p>Pac10 teams have done poorly against quality teams from other conferences. Zona played a few and if they won those games, it would have helped the Pac10 (and hence Stanford) a lot. The problem is Arizona lost ALL of those games if I am not mistaken. I thought USC got a quality win against NC but it turns out NC isn't even ranked. That Stanford lost to bad teams like UC Davis really hurts too.</p>