12-21-2021, 11:43 AM
The Stanford men (127 NET ranking) are spending the early part of the holidays on Oahu in an eight-team tournament that also includes BYU (25), Hawaii (215), Liberty (128), Northern Iowa (162), South Florida (262), Vanderbilt (99) and Wyoming (19).
The bracket is here: https://espnevents.com/hawaiian-airlines...c/bracket/
Stanford drew Wyoming for its opening game on Wednesday at 2:30 pm Pacific time (or 20 minutes following the early game). My cable provider is showing the game on ESPNU, although that is sometimes variable.
Wyoming is 9-1, with home wins over Detroit Mercy, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Hastings College (Neb.), Denver, McNeese State and Utah Valley, and road wins over Washington, Grand Canyon, Cal State Fullerton. The loan loss was a shellacking on the road at Arizona. The Cowboys are led by Graham Ike, who is averaging 19.6 points and 8.5 rebounds per game, although they have five players who are averaging double figures. They have some good 3-point shooters, especially Drake Jeffries, who is 35-67 (!) from deep. In fact, Jeffries only has three FG attempts that were not 3-pointers.
Stanford has yet to win away from Maples Pavilion this year.
This tournament closes out the nonconference portion of Stanford's regular season schedule. It's an opportunity, however unlikely, for a couple of Quad 1 wins before conference play resumes on Jan. 2 versus Cal. Covid willing of course.
The bracket is here: https://espnevents.com/hawaiian-airlines...c/bracket/
Stanford drew Wyoming for its opening game on Wednesday at 2:30 pm Pacific time (or 20 minutes following the early game). My cable provider is showing the game on ESPNU, although that is sometimes variable.
Wyoming is 9-1, with home wins over Detroit Mercy, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Hastings College (Neb.), Denver, McNeese State and Utah Valley, and road wins over Washington, Grand Canyon, Cal State Fullerton. The loan loss was a shellacking on the road at Arizona. The Cowboys are led by Graham Ike, who is averaging 19.6 points and 8.5 rebounds per game, although they have five players who are averaging double figures. They have some good 3-point shooters, especially Drake Jeffries, who is 35-67 (!) from deep. In fact, Jeffries only has three FG attempts that were not 3-pointers.
Stanford has yet to win away from Maples Pavilion this year.
This tournament closes out the nonconference portion of Stanford's regular season schedule. It's an opportunity, however unlikely, for a couple of Quad 1 wins before conference play resumes on Jan. 2 versus Cal. Covid willing of course.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)
