03-07-2019, 11:16 PM
Tough to be sanguine after that meltdown... missing our first 21 (!) three-point attempts is unreal. At home!
However, I would note that Stanford is 5-3 in conference with its regular starting lineup playing and 3-7 without (Daejon Davis was unavailable tonight). The bench is thin and tonight the absence of a quality point guard showed. Given how awful the rest of the conference is, if Davis is available for the Pac-12 tournament, I would not be surprised if we won a couple of games. I also would not be surprised if we were one-and-done for Las Vegas.
But I'm calling my shot: next year we will have a winning record in conference play and will be in the running for an NCAA tournament bid.
However, I would note that Stanford is 5-3 in conference with its regular starting lineup playing and 3-7 without (Daejon Davis was unavailable tonight). The bench is thin and tonight the absence of a quality point guard showed. Given how awful the rest of the conference is, if Davis is available for the Pac-12 tournament, I would not be surprised if we won a couple of games. I also would not be surprised if we were one-and-done for Las Vegas.
But I'm calling my shot: next year we will have a winning record in conference play and will be in the running for an NCAA tournament bid.
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)