02-26-2016, 11:45 AM
So per my snowball's-chance hypothesis, Stanford needs to sweep remaining games vs UCLA, @ ASU and @ UA and win at least the first game in the Pac-12 tournament (probably versus ASU) to be in the conversation for the NCAA tournament.
Right now, ESPN does not even list Stanford in its rather expansive Bubble Watch blog:
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bubblewatch
For those who don't want to look, UO, Utah and UA are locks for the NCAA tournament, C.al and U$C "should be in" and OSU, CU and UW have "work left to do."
Also, Stanford is in position to finish ahead of UCLA in the conference standings for the first time since 2003-04.
Right now, ESPN does not even list Stanford in its rather expansive Bubble Watch blog:
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bubblewatch
For those who don't want to look, UO, Utah and UA are locks for the NCAA tournament, C.al and U$C "should be in" and OSU, CU and UW have "work left to do."
Also, Stanford is in position to finish ahead of UCLA in the conference standings for the first time since 2003-04.
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)