[SkiBum80]

embarrassing now

Indeed. Maybe travel?

You've played this card a hundred times when Stanford loses on the East Coast.  ENOUGH.  I'm sick of reading about this excuse.

Maybe the issue isn't exactly East coast travel.  But just travel and being away game in general. In other words, not like a physical exhaustion from travel flying east, but rather a mental lapse after some long travel and then being away at another venue, different locker room and court, different lighting, maybe a slightly different court feel, usually without friends or family or as much fan support, staying in a hotel instead of your bed, maybe too much A/C or heat, maybe mattress not comfortable, etc. etc. and then results in some lack of peak concentration and performance.  In other words, consider if instead of flying east they had a 5 hour bus ride to play UC Santa Barbara, maybe a similar situation where they don't always bring their top concentration and energy?
This gets into the age old speculation of if there is, and when there is, a home field advantage, then why?

[SkiBum80]

embarrassing now

Indeed. Maybe travel?

You've played this card a hundred times when Stanford loses on the East Coast.  ENOUGH.  I'm sick of reading about this excuse.

Maybe the issue isn't exactly East coast travel.  But just travel and being away game in general. In other words, not like a physical exhaustion from travel flying east, but rather a mental lapse after some long travel and then being away at another venue, different locker room and court, different lighting, maybe a slightly different court feel, usually without friends or family or as much fan support, staying in a hotel instead of your bed, maybe too much A/C or heat, maybe mattress not comfortable, etc. etc. and then results in some lack of peak concentration and performance.  In other words, consider if instead of flying east they had a 5 hour bus ride to play UC Santa Barbara, maybe a similar situation where they don't always bring their top concentration and energy?
This gets into the age old speculation of if there is, and when there is, a home field advantage, then why?