Thread: Checking in with JD and Stanford: Big Weekend!

Dropped the game at ASU tonight. Only way Stanford gets in the tournament now is to beat Arizona on the road and win a couple games in the PAC12 tourney.

Wojo and Collins obviously won't be making the big dance. Amaker and Harvard can clinch at least a share of the IVY league crown with a win over Yale tomorrow at 8. If Harvard beats Brown on Saturday night too, they will be the outright IVY league champions. If both Yale and Harvard go 1-1 over the weekend, they will meet in a 1 game playoff to decide which team earns the NCAA automatic bid.

I can't imagine that JD is going to be coaching the Cardinal next year.

Originally Posted by CameronBornAndBred

I can't imagine that JD is going to be coaching the Cardinal next year.

I dunno, Chris, he was just given an extension in September after last year's Sweet Sixteen team.

Sage

Originally Posted by sagegrouse

I dunno, Chris, he was just given an extension in September after last year's Sweet Sixteen team.

Sage

Of course, I really hope you're right. If I were a fan, I'd be disappointed in seeing a step back though. Who knows, maybe they make waves in their conference tourney.

Originally Posted by sagegrouse

I dunno, Chris, he was just given an extension in September after last year's Sweet Sixteen team.

Sage

Originally Posted by CameronBornAndBred

Of course, I really hope you're right. If I were a fan, I'd be disappointed in seeing a step back though. Who knows, maybe they make waves in their conference tourney.

I think Sage is right. While JD certainly didn't do himself any favors this year, I think they will at least give him another year.

That said, I don't think next year's team has much talent if I'm remembering correctly. Randle and Nastic I think are both gone. So the writing may be on the wall.

Obviously agree that the performance this year was a step back. They had a bunch of talent that didn't live up to the potential. Should have been in the tourney - and probably easily in.

- Chillin

I'd be shocked if Johnny does not get another year, but the pressure is going to be on. The team has really swooned lately, surprising for a club where its three best players are seniors Randle, Nastic, and Anthony Brown. As recently as late January, Stanford looked like a #7 seed. But they've lost 6 of 9 since then and haven't won a road game in more than a month. As I noted earlier, his recruiting has been sub-par and he is going to have a really tough time replacing Randle, Nastic, and Brown. This year's team has been plagued by injuries too. Starting forward Michael Humphrey turned an ankle last night and probably won't play against Arizona. Stanford was missing Reid Travis for 9 games earlier this year too.

-Jason "The way they are playing, I really don't see them being much of a challenge for a surging Arizona team" Evans

Originally Posted by JasonEvans

I'd be shocked if Johnny does not get another year, but the pressure is going to be on. The team has really swooned lately, surprising for a club where its three best players are seniors Randle, Nastic, and Anthony Brown. As recently as late January, Stanford looked like a #7 seed. But they've lost 6 of 9 since then and haven't won a road game in more than a month. As I noted earlier, his recruiting has been sub-par and he is going to have a really tough time replacing Randle, Nastic, and Brown. This year's team has been plagued by injuries too. Starting forward Michael Humphrey turned an ankle last night and probably won't play against Arizona. Stanford was missing Reid Travis for 9 games earlier this year too.

-Jason "The way they are playing, I really don't see them being much of a challenge for a surging Arizona team" Evans

Yea, I hope he survives but I know Stanford, like Duke, has high expectations for its teams and I'm sure they're disappointed with the record. To compete successfully at the highest levels of Div. 1, you have to recruit top HS players. I would think you would be able to do that at Stanford, but I don't know what sort of academic record the admissions office requires of the scholarship athletes. Is it higher than a Duke or Notre Dame or Vanderbilt?

Originally Posted by duke79

Yea, I hope he survives but I know Stanford, like Duke, has high expectations for its teams and I'm sure they're disappointed with the record. To compete successfully at the highest levels of Div. 1, you have to recruit top HS players. I would think you would be able to do that at Stanford, but I don't know what sort of academic record the admissions office requires of the scholarship athletes. Is it higher than a Duke or Notre Dame or Vanderbilt?

They haven't been hindered in recruiting in football. Stanford is one of the teams that we point to and say "See? It can be done".

Originally Posted by JasonEvans

I'd be shocked if Johnny does not get another year, but the pressure is going to be on. The team has really swooned lately, surprising for a club where its three best players are seniors Randle, Nastic, and Anthony Brown. As recently as late January, Stanford looked like a #7 seed. But they've lost 6 of 9 since then and haven't won a road game in more than a month. As I noted earlier, his recruiting has been sub-par and he is going to have a really tough time replacing Randle, Nastic, and Brown. This year's team has been plagued by injuries too. Starting forward Michael Humphrey turned an ankle last night and probably won't play against Arizona. Stanford was missing Reid Travis for 9 games earlier this year too.

-Jason "The way they are playing, I really don't see them being much of a challenge for a surging Arizona team" Evans

I hope he gets 2 more. Though it's true he loses his top 3, he has several promising players on board, but it's more likely they'll be good in 2016-17 than 2015-16. He will have 3 very good interior players by 2016-17: Jrs Travis and Humphrey, plus So C Josh Sharma, a good one. Plenty of size and talent to rotate those 3 for the 2 interior spots. A real strength. PG will be in good hands, Jr Cartwright will be solid. Wings will depend on how good the Allen twins turn out to be.

Expectations will be down for 2015-16, but they'll win some good games while rebuilding. Johnny still has some real if young talent, so losing this year's 3 good seniors means a bumpy ride next season. Much smoother in 2016-17. I think he'll still be there.

Stanford's season was defined by two agonizing losses to UCLA. At UCLA, excellent FT-shooter Randle missed a FT with 2 seconds left at end of first OT that would have won it. This after Standord had led by 14 under 10. Horrible loss. Then lost @ home to Bruins by 2.

Originally Posted by subzero02

Wojo and Collins obviously won't be making the big dance. Amaker and Harvard can clinch at least a share of the IVY league crown with a win over Yale tomorrow at 8. If Harvard beats Brown on Saturday night too, they will be the outright IVY league champions. If both Yale and Harvard go 1-1 over the weekend, they will meet in a 1 game playoff to decide which team earns the NCAA automatic bid.

Buffalo has a pretty good shot as well.

Originally Posted by subzero02

Wojo and Collins obviously won't be making the big dance. Amaker and Harvard can clinch at least a share of the IVY league crown with a win over Yale tomorrow at 8. If Harvard beats Brown on Saturday night too, they will be the outright IVY league champions. If both Yale and Harvard go 1-1 over the weekend, they will meet in a 1 game playoff to decide which team earns the NCAA automatic bid.

In what must be a defensive battle (or a horrible offensive outing by both teams), Yale is leading Harvard with a little over 10 minutes left, 35-28.

Originally Posted by CameronBornAndBred

In what must be a defensive battle (or a horrible offensive outing by both teams), Yale is leading Harvard with a little over 10 minutes left, 35-28.

Is that a basketball score or did you leave out a decimal point from each number and meant to quote their GPAs?

Originally Posted by CameronBornAndBred

In what must be a defensive battle (or a horrible offensive outing by both teams), Yale is leading Harvard with a little over 10 minutes left, 35-28.

Yale ended up winning 62-52, in what was actually an interesting game. I watched the game and, in spite of my affection for Tommy, found myself rooting for Yale for a couple of reasons. First, one of my daughters graduated from Yale. Also Matt Townsend, a 6'7" forward on the Yale team who had 8 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists and a blocked shot, is from the high school where my wife teaches - and oh, he is a Rhodes Scholar.

The Yale team also lost a kid who would have been a starter because he choose to spend his senior year as a Wiffenpoof rather than a bball player.

Originally Posted by Tappan Zee Devil

The Yale team also lost a kid who would have been a starter because he choose to spend his senior year as a Wiffenpoof rather than a bball player.

I looked it up. The Wiffenpoof are the most famous college a capella group around. 14 Yale seniors each year are chosen to be members of it.

Of course, only 5 Yale students (senior or otherwise) are chosen to start on the basketball team

-Jason "congrats to Yale... they seem likely to be going to their first Big Dance in decades" Evans

hope this video insert works-please forgive me if not.

most (if not all) seniors tapped to be a Whiffenpoof take the year off. I'm not sure you can play for the basketball team if you're not enrolled!