[81alum]

Actually the loses this week by UCON and Louisville give Charlie Creme a chance to redeem himself by making Stanford a #1 seed next week. Of course, our women need to win their game against UCLA to be considered for a top tier seeding, but Creme seems to be too dismissive of Stanford. It will be interesting to see if the East Coast bias holds up when two of his teams lose at home by pretty good margins.

Charlie has in past years been very pro-Stanford, including several years when we did not perform as well as he predicted.  Maybe he feels burned by us. 

An objective outsider looking at the fact that we graduated our top scorer and are now playing with 2 of our best starters injured, and considering both our two bad losses (bad for different reasons) and several way-too-close wins--and we do not at this point look that impressive.  We need to prove ourselves every week, since it seems like every week we have a different team out there.  I really don't know how good we are--I have never been more unsure of that in February.  I understand the skepticism. 

An easy win over UCLA at home tonight would assuage my fears a good deal.  Let's see how that goes....

[81alum]

Actually the loses this week by UCON and Louisville give Charlie Creme a chance to redeem himself by making Stanford a #1 seed next week. Of course, our women need to win their game against UCLA to be considered for a top tier seeding, but Creme seems to be too dismissive of Stanford. It will be interesting to see if the East Coast bias holds up when two of his teams lose at home by pretty good margins.

Charlie has in past years been very pro-Stanford, including several years when we did not perform as well as he predicted.  Maybe he feels burned by us. 

An objective outsider looking at the fact that we graduated our top scorer and are now playing with 2 of our best starters injured, and considering both our two bad losses (bad for different reasons) and several way-too-close wins--and we do not at this point look that impressive.  We need to prove ourselves every week, since it seems like every week we have a different team out there.  I really don't know how good we are--I have never been more unsure of that in February.  I understand the skepticism. 

An easy win over UCLA at home tonight would assuage my fears a good deal.  Let's see how that goes....