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Post by treasurevalleybeav on Mar 4, 2017 21:46:00 GMT -8
Has anyone EVER beat them 3 times in a season? Love to see some more history tomorrow. Either that or beating hole for the 50th straight time  |
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Post by beavs6 on Mar 4, 2017 22:12:44 GMT -8
I'm worried about a 3rd game against the tree.
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Post by treasurevalleybeav on Mar 4, 2017 22:36:44 GMT -8
Definitely a reason likely no one has beaten them that many times in a season
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Post by beavdowg on Mar 4, 2017 22:59:16 GMT -8
Both announcers on the Pac-12 network picked the Beavs to win tomorrow. Let's make it a reality!
Go Beavs!!
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Post by bennyskid on Mar 5, 2017 9:42:22 GMT -8
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Post by beavs6 on Mar 5, 2017 9:49:37 GMT -8
Good find. Wonder why TN and Stanford played 3 times in a year when they are not in the same conference. Seems like a rarity. |
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Post by bennyskid on Mar 5, 2017 11:33:03 GMT -8
It would be. They opened against them @tennessee as a regular preseason game. They met them in the finals of a holiday tournament. And they faced them in the Final Four.
Tennessee went on to beat Virginia in the finals. So no team has ever defeated Stanford three times and not won the national championship.
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Post by treasurevalleybeav on Mar 5, 2017 12:37:08 GMT -8
Thanks for the info! Surprising answer. Maybe we'll be the first conference foe ever to pull it off  |
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Post by elmirabeaver on Mar 5, 2017 15:57:39 GMT -8
So no team has ever defeated Stanford three times and not won the national championship. Okay, then. Let's beat them and win the National Championship. Works for me... |
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Post by Werebeaver on Mar 5, 2017 16:08:22 GMT -8
Thanks for the info! Surprising answer. Maybe we'll be the first conference foe ever to pull it off There's a first time for everything. Whatever "mystique" Stanford once had that defeated some teams before the ball was even tipped is gone. Now they are just another very good team that will beat us if we don't play our very best. That's all. |
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Post by bennyskid on Mar 5, 2017 16:58:38 GMT -8
The mystique may be gone - but only because Scott Rueck blew it up. Don't think for a moment that there has been any decline in the quality of these Stanford teams. I checked their recruiting results for as far back as Hoopgurlz has in the archive, and I don't see any dropoff from 2009 to today. They get from one to three 5* recruit every year - the one year they didn't (2011) they had five 4* girls. Their best recruiting years were 2014 and 2016. These teams are just as good as the ones that went to the Final Four five straight years (2007-2012). The only difference is that instead of going 18-0 or 17-1 in conference and being ranked in the top 5 all year long, they now lose 3-4 conference games (in what is now the toughest conference in the country) and therefore get ranked a peg lower.
Last night Scott called UCLA a "Final Four" team - and he was entirely sincere. Stanford is better. If Stanford could switch places with Baylor or Notre Dame, they would be 30-2 right now and ranked #2 or #3.
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