03-10-2026, 06:21 PM
That's a shame. Hopefully they keep Okorie (although if he wants to resurrect a certain team in Atlanta....) and Smith is better than just another NIT coach when all is said and done. I'll latch onto the Hoos for a run and maybe Queens College. (Can't bring myself to care about the Not In Tournament tournament.)
Someone said that this might be the first time Stanford wasn't in a bowl game, M or W NCAA Tournament, or College World Series since the '70s. Hard to prove a negative, but I find that hard to believe.
If we are going to destroy the world with data centers, might as well use them. The list since 1970 is neither long nor short. (Took Copilot some time and Python - so much cross referencing and it had a hard time deciding what a 'year' is since academic years cover two distinct calendar years. Better than me doing it, anyway.)
1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985, 2019, 2024
So five times since the 70s or 4 times if you count decades one to ten instead of zero to nine.
But if the larger point is that Stanford sports ain't what they used to be; it seems so. Stanford was crushing it from 1986 through 2018. That isn't a surprise given WBB dominance, and long stretches of strong performances in football, MBB, and baseball. The quad years (all 4 of the power sports reaching post season) are 1996, 1999, and 2001. That's the sum total. Alright, it has been a while.
Someone said that this might be the first time Stanford wasn't in a bowl game, M or W NCAA Tournament, or College World Series since the '70s. Hard to prove a negative, but I find that hard to believe.
If we are going to destroy the world with data centers, might as well use them. The list since 1970 is neither long nor short. (Took Copilot some time and Python - so much cross referencing and it had a hard time deciding what a 'year' is since academic years cover two distinct calendar years. Better than me doing it, anyway.)
1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985, 2019, 2024
So five times since the 70s or 4 times if you count decades one to ten instead of zero to nine.
But if the larger point is that Stanford sports ain't what they used to be; it seems so. Stanford was crushing it from 1986 through 2018. That isn't a surprise given WBB dominance, and long stretches of strong performances in football, MBB, and baseball. The quad years (all 4 of the power sports reaching post season) are 1996, 1999, and 2001. That's the sum total. Alright, it has been a while.