[Papa John]

Some updated numbers for Stanford men's basketball:

Pomeroy: 100 (up from 112)
RPI: 71 (up from 74)
RPI SOS: 1

Games remaining:
@UW RPI=75
vs USC RPI=23
vs UCLA RPI=77
@ASU RPI=83
@UA RPI=25

It's a crapshoot trying to predict a magic number of wins, but let's just pretend that--to be in the conversation--Stanford needs to finish with 18 wins and no bad losses. The most likely snowball's-chance scenario would be a sweep of UW, UCLA and ASU (all rated below us in RPI) and a split between USC and UA. That would get us to 5th or, more likely, 6th in the Pac-12, and we would absolutely need to win our first Pac-12 tournament game against someone like ASU or WSU.

By the way, here are the records of Dawkins-coached teams for the final five games of the regular conference season:
2009: 2-3
2010: 2-3
2011: 2-3
2012: 3-2 (won the NIT)
2013: 3-2 (made NIT)
2014: 3-2 (Sweet 16)
2015: 2-3 (won the NIT)

So in year 8 of the Dawkins era, a 4-1 finish to the regular season would be groundbreaking.

[Papa John]

Some updated numbers for Stanford men's basketball:

Pomeroy: 100 (up from 112)
RPI: 71 (up from 74)
RPI SOS: 1

Games remaining:
@UW RPI=75
vs USC RPI=23
vs UCLA RPI=77
@ASU RPI=83
@UA RPI=25

It's a crapshoot trying to predict a magic number of wins, but let's just pretend that--to be in the conversation--Stanford needs to finish with 18 wins and no bad losses. The most likely snowball's-chance scenario would be a sweep of UW, UCLA and ASU (all rated below us in RPI) and a split between USC and UA. That would get us to 5th or, more likely, 6th in the Pac-12, and we would absolutely need to win our first Pac-12 tournament game against someone like ASU or WSU.

By the way, here are the records of Dawkins-coached teams for the final five games of the regular conference season:
2009: 2-3
2010: 2-3
2011: 2-3
2012: 3-2 (won the NIT)
2013: 3-2 (made NIT)
2014: 3-2 (Sweet 16)
2015: 2-3 (won the NIT)

So in year 8 of the Dawkins era, a 4-1 finish to the regular season would be groundbreaking.