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At what point should we start to get excited about our results? Does winning the first 2 games by 20+ mean anything?

Asked by someone who has no idea which of our early season opponents are any good.

Neither opponent was good at all, but blowing both of them out is certainly better than any alternative!

Yeah - according to ESPNs Basketball Power Index (for whatever that's worth), Denver is #340 and Fullerton is 289.  Stanford is currently #94 - up from 105 last week.

Our early season schedule is definitely weak.  Upcoming non-league opponents are: Northern Arizona (#239), UC Davis (171), Norfolk St. (177), Santa Clara (119), Grand Canyon (72), Cal Poly (321), Utah Valley (212), Merrimack (202), & Oregon (30).  All of these games are at home except for Santa Clara and neutral site games with Grand Canyon (Palm Desert) and Oregon (San Jose).

ACC opponents will be a big step up obviously: Duke (2), UNC (9), Clemson (24), Miami (31), Pitt (35), NC State (41), SMU (49), Wake Forest (54), Syracuse (63), Notre Dame (66), Louisville (69), Florida St. (89), Va Tech (95), U Va (97), Ga Tech (99), Cal (106), & BC (117).

So Santa Clara, Grand Canyon, an early ACC game at Cal, and Oregon should be the games between now and the end of the year that should give a better idea of how the season might go.  For whatever it's worth, ESPNs BPI projects Stanford's record to be 16.2-14.8 (7.7-12.3 in the ACC).

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At what point should we start to get excited about our results? Does winning the first 2 games by 20+ mean anything?

Asked by someone who has no idea which of our early season opponents are any good.

Neither opponent was good at all, but blowing both of them out is certainly better than any alternative!

Yeah - according to ESPNs Basketball Power Index (for whatever that's worth), Denver is #340 and Fullerton is 289.  Stanford is currently #94 - up from 105 last week.

Our early season schedule is definitely weak.  Upcoming non-league opponents are: Northern Arizona (#239), UC Davis (171), Norfolk St. (177), Santa Clara (119), Grand Canyon (72), Cal Poly (321), Utah Valley (212), Merrimack (202), & Oregon (30).  All of these games are at home except for Santa Clara and neutral site games with Grand Canyon (Palm Desert) and Oregon (San Jose).

ACC opponents will be a big step up obviously: Duke (2), UNC (9), Clemson (24), Miami (31), Pitt (35), NC State (41), SMU (49), Wake Forest (54), Syracuse (63), Notre Dame (66), Louisville (69), Florida St. (89), Va Tech (95), U Va (97), Ga Tech (99), Cal (106), & BC (117).

So Santa Clara, Grand Canyon, an early ACC game at Cal, and Oregon should be the games between now and the end of the year that should give a better idea of how the season might go.  For whatever it's worth, ESPNs BPI projects Stanford's record to be 16.2-14.8 (7.7-12.3 in the ACC).