01-19-2015, 06:29 PM
(01-19-2015, 02:54 PM)burger link Wrote:[quote author=garvin link=topic=11566.msg111173#msg111173 date=1421698249]I just flipped through the rankings from that year, and we got votes but never made the top 25.
I think we may have been ranked early in Dawkins' first season. Remember, we were coming off a Sweet 16 season, and the team started off 10-0 before tanking immediately, totally and permanently in the conference opener against ASU.
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What's strange is that after the Sweet 16 season of 2007-2008, the preseason ranking was the equivalent of #50, with just two votes. Those two votes disappeared until the seventh poll when Stanford was 7-0 and they received eight votes, the rough ranking equivalent of a tie for #37 (with FSU). The next week, Stanford beat Santa Clara by a little (77-69) and Texas Tech by a lot (111-66) to a 9-0 record and the equivalent of a #33 ranking on 12/30...the day Stanford won its 10th game in a row, over Hartford by a score of 69-55. The next week, Stanford beat Arizona by 16 but was slaughtered by Arizona State 90-60. With an 11-1 record, Stanford received no AP votes, and would not receive votes for the rest of the year.
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