[ColoradoTree]

Well, any hope of hosting died with that loss to Cal, so we'll be on the road. If travel considerations factor in, don't be surprised if we're the 2 seed at Pepperdine or UCLA rather than somewhere else across the country. 

Reminder: Stanford has never failed to host the first two rounds of NCAAs. Stanford has also never failed to reach the final site (traditionally 16 teams, was scheduled to just be 8 with a "super regional" round first last year, but not sure if that's happening this year).

In a full schedule year, we probably play enough good teams at National Indoors that we're a top 16 team. In past years where we've dropped a few Pac-12 matches, we still find our way into the top 16. I'm thinking of 2016, when we were 14-5 at the end of the regular season, lost to ASU and Cal in conference (plus to Pepperdine, Vanderbilt, and Ole Miss), and pulled off an absolute white-knuckle ride to a national championship (including four different NCAA matches by a 4-3 scoreline). But that's obviously not this year. But we're not so far off that, talent-wise and results-wise, at least. (Of course, we had Lampl and Lord holding down 5 and 6 as freshmen and just crushing people, and we had Taylor Davidson at 2, so even though we'd often lose doubles, we could usually get a win out of those three, and then one of Zhao at 1, Doyle at 3, or Hardebeck at 4 would take us over the top. In the five competitive postseason rounds that year, we only won the doubles point once, but Lampl and Lord each went 5-0 in singles, Davidson went 3-1, Hardebeck 2-2, Zhao 2-3, and Doyle 1-4. There was a clutch gene on that team, though, that this team doesn't have.)

[ColoradoTree]

Well, any hope of hosting died with that loss to Cal, so we'll be on the road. If travel considerations factor in, don't be surprised if we're the 2 seed at Pepperdine or UCLA rather than somewhere else across the country. 

Reminder: Stanford has never failed to host the first two rounds of NCAAs. Stanford has also never failed to reach the final site (traditionally 16 teams, was scheduled to just be 8 with a "super regional" round first last year, but not sure if that's happening this year).

In a full schedule year, we probably play enough good teams at National Indoors that we're a top 16 team. In past years where we've dropped a few Pac-12 matches, we still find our way into the top 16. I'm thinking of 2016, when we were 14-5 at the end of the regular season, lost to ASU and Cal in conference (plus to Pepperdine, Vanderbilt, and Ole Miss), and pulled off an absolute white-knuckle ride to a national championship (including four different NCAA matches by a 4-3 scoreline). But that's obviously not this year. But we're not so far off that, talent-wise and results-wise, at least. (Of course, we had Lampl and Lord holding down 5 and 6 as freshmen and just crushing people, and we had Taylor Davidson at 2, so even though we'd often lose doubles, we could usually get a win out of those three, and then one of Zhao at 1, Doyle at 3, or Hardebeck at 4 would take us over the top. In the five competitive postseason rounds that year, we only won the doubles point once, but Lampl and Lord each went 5-0 in singles, Davidson went 3-1, Hardebeck 2-2, Zhao 2-3, and Doyle 1-4. There was a clutch gene on that team, though, that this team doesn't have.)