03-08-2022, 04:39 PM
For anyone who is interested in probabilities, ESPN's BPI gives Stanford a 40.5% chance of defeating the Sun Devils. The last point spread that I saw was ASU -3.5. Ken Pomeroy gives #9 Stanford a 43.8% chance of defeating the #8 Sun Devils, a 3.5% chance of then defeating #1 Arizona, a 1.4% of winning the semifinal game and a 0.3% chance of earning the Pac-12's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
Here are the Pac-12 conference tournament results so far for Coach Haase:
2017: #9, lost in the first round vs #8 ASU
2018: #5, won in the first round vs #12 Cal; Lost in the quarterfinals vs #4 UCLA
2019: #10, lost in the first round vs #7 UCLA
2020: #7, lost in the first round vs #10 Cal
2021: #6, lost in the first round vs #11 Cal
So other than the unsightly 1-5 record, it's worth noting that Stanford has never defeated a better-seeded team under Haase. They'll get one more chance on Wednesday.
Here are the Pac-12 conference tournament results so far for Coach Haase:
2017: #9, lost in the first round vs #8 ASU
2018: #5, won in the first round vs #12 Cal; Lost in the quarterfinals vs #4 UCLA
2019: #10, lost in the first round vs #7 UCLA
2020: #7, lost in the first round vs #10 Cal
2021: #6, lost in the first round vs #11 Cal
So other than the unsightly 1-5 record, it's worth noting that Stanford has never defeated a better-seeded team under Haase. They'll get one more chance on Wednesday.
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)
