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Pretty hard to recruit against that for most schools. I assume they used Phil Knight money. In the mean time, Stanford declares poverty and cuts sports.

The Stanford University Board of Trustees will meet with 36SportsStrong, the alumni group working to restore the 11 teams slated for termination.  They are meeting with university president Marc Tessier Lavigne at his request.

Stanford has maintained that the decision is one of financial necessity.  The alumni group has created a detailed analysis that proves that the savings are limited, given that they're among the least expensive sports.  Through extensive fundraising, the group has raised more than $50 million so far towards saving the program, and they are asking for a five year runway to ensure that the sports remain endowed.

The decision to dump the sports have brought a rash of bad publicity.  Wrestler Shane Griffith won a national championship wearing a black singlet because he did not want to represent the Stanford name.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/annki...084676.php

6-0 soph Koi Love from Vandy to Arizona.  Vandy had a short season but Love averaged 21 points and 9 rebounds

Shelly and Chavez on the portal out of Oregon

Here's a really good article about Haley on USA.com. They are doing a terrific job of covering Women's BB. Many other good articles there in addition to this one.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nc...845313001/

Didn’t want to start a new thread, but Sean Miller is out as coach at Arizona.

BC

#30 in the world this year.

Sunday's Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race saw the 75th installment of the women's Boat Race, which featured Stanford alumna Anja Zehfuss '20 rowing at 2-seat in the Oxford boat.  In a dramatically close race throughout, there were two lead changes, with Oxford losing a few seats off the start and taking the lead just before four minutes into the race.  Cambridge hung on and maintained contact, coming back from down almost 3/4 of a length to overtake Oxford around nine minutes into the race.  Cambridge would hold on to nearly a length lead through the finish line (~16:30 total race time).

Video link here. The first ~42 minutes are dead, and the women's race is followed by the men's race:

My summaries of the six tournament games and the victory parade are posted on the Fast Break Club site, www.stanfordfbc.org.

Nice piece by fivethirtyeight...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/sta...538twitter

Quote:“This team to me has been a team of sisterhood. And a sisterhood — if you aren’t really a family, if you don’t really care about each other, 100 days on the road could really get old,” VanDerveer said last week. “But we’re going into our third week and … it’s great to be around these young women. And I think they really enjoy being around each other. … And so basketball then, when you’re out there, is more than just passing to somebody; you’re playing hard for each other.”

Pretty amazing that in the age of COVID-19, we wound up playing more minutes than any other division 1 team.

Also, nice sentiment by Barnes:

Quote:“I’m trying to build a program like Tara has, build a program like Geno [Auriemma at UConn] and Dawn [Staley at South Carolina], all the other trailblazers in this profession,” Barnes said after the game. “I’m not satisfied with just being here, being in the tournament; I want to build a program where you’re surprised when they don’t win. Like when you look at Tara, Geno, Dawn, it’s surprising if they don’t win a championship; it’s a disappointment.”

BC

https://gostanford.com/news/2021/4/6/wom...draft.aspx

No surprise.

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Can we infer anything from the fact that Wilson did not join Ki in declaring?