Once again Stanford is outrebounded and has more turnovers than its opponent. Good thing these first two games don't count!
FWIW (not much), Oregon is #79 according to the kenpom.com preseason rankings, 15th in the 18-team B1G. Santa Clara, who beat Stanford a few days ago is #92.
Stanford is #67 according to kenpom.com, 11th in the 18-team ACC. If that ranking counted and stood--neither of these are true--67th would not be good enough to make the expanded NCAA tournament field.
To pass the time until our first "real" game on Nov. 2, here are the kenpom.com rankings of our nonconference opponents:
vs #151 Eastern Washington
vs #199 Oakland
vs #237 Rice
@ #78 UNLV
vs #110 UC Irvine
vs #189 Sac State
neutral #86 Colorado (Acrisure tournament in Palm Desert, CA)
neutral #44 Grand Canyon or #54 St. Louis (Acrisure tournament in Palm Desert, CA
vs #179 Portland
@ #19 Texas A&M (SEC/ACC Challenge) @ 6:15 pm Pacific time
vs #137 Pacific
vs #188 Northern Colorado
vs #154 San Jose State
vs #172 Saint Thomas
FWIW (not much), Oregon is #79 according to the kenpom.com preseason rankings, 15th in the 18-team B1G. Santa Clara, who beat Stanford a few days ago is #92.
Stanford is #67 according to kenpom.com, 11th in the 18-team ACC. If that ranking counted and stood--neither of these are true--67th would not be good enough to make the expanded NCAA tournament field.
To pass the time until our first "real" game on Nov. 2, here are the kenpom.com rankings of our nonconference opponents:
vs #151 Eastern Washington
vs #199 Oakland
vs #237 Rice
@ #78 UNLV
vs #110 UC Irvine
vs #189 Sac State
neutral #86 Colorado (Acrisure tournament in Palm Desert, CA)
neutral #44 Grand Canyon or #54 St. Louis (Acrisure tournament in Palm Desert, CA
vs #179 Portland
@ #19 Texas A&M (SEC/ACC Challenge) @ 6:15 pm Pacific time
vs #137 Pacific
vs #188 Northern Colorado
vs #154 San Jose State
vs #172 Saint Thomas
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)