2003–04 Stanford Cardinal men's basketball team
2003–04 Stanford Cardinal men's basketball | |
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Pacific-10 Regular Season Champions Pacific-10 Tournament Champions | |
Conference | Pacific-10 Conference |
Ranking | |
Coaches | No. 1 |
AP | No. 1 |
2003–04 record | 30–2 (17–1 Pac-10) |
Head coach | Mike Montgomery |
Home arena | Maples Pavilion |
{{2003–04 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball standings}} The 2003–04 Stanford Cardinal men's basketball team represented Stanford University in the 2003–04 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was Head Coach Mike Montgomery's eighteenth and final season with the Cardinal. The Cardinal are a member of the Pacific-10 Conference and were the Pac-10 regular season champions as well as the Pac-10 Tournament champions.
Rankings
Stanford was ranked #17 in the preseason Coaches' Poll and #20 in the preseason AP Poll.[1] After going undefeated after 14 games, the Cardinal climbed to #2 in both polls (behind only Duke) by the ninth week of the season,[2] where they remained until the thirteenth week of the season when they reached #1 in both polls.[3] The Cardinal remained there until dropping to #2 in the sixteenth week (behind undefeated St. Joseph's) after their undefeated streak of 26 games ended when they were upset by Washington.[4] The Cardinal returned to the #1 ranking the following week (the final poll of the season) after St. Joseph's lost 87–67 to Xavier in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 Tournament.[5]
Pac-10 tournament
First Round (March 11) | Semifinals (March 12) | Finals (March 13) | ||||||||||||
1 | Stanford | 68 | ||||||||||||
8 | Washington State | 47 | ||||||||||||
1 | Stanford | 70 | ||||||||||||
5 | Oregon | 63 | ||||||||||||
4 | California | 82 | ||||||||||||
5 | Oregon | 87 | ||||||||||||
1 | Stanford | 77 | ||||||||||||
2 | Washington | 66 | ||||||||||||
3 | Arizona | 76 | ||||||||||||
6 | USC | 73 | ||||||||||||
3 | Arizona | 85 | ||||||||||||
2 | Washington | 90 | ||||||||||||
2 | Washington | 91 | ||||||||||||
7 | UCLA | 83 | ||||||||||||
NCAA tournament
Round One (March 18) | Round Two (March 20) | ||||||||
1 | Stanford | 71 | |||||||
16 | Texas-San Antonio | 45 | |||||||
1 | Stanford | 67 | |||||||
8 | Alabama | 70 | |||||||
8 | Alabama | 65 | |||||||
9 | Southern Illinois | 64 | |||||||
Awards and honors
- Mike Montgomery, Legends of Coaching Award (adopted by the John R. Wooden Award Committee)[7]
References
- ↑ "2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings - Preseason". ESPN.
- ↑ "2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings (Jan. 19)". ESPN.
- ↑ "2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings (Feb. 16)". ESPN.
- ↑ "2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings (Mar. 8)". ESPN.
- ↑ "2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings (Mar. 15)". ESPN.
- ↑ http://www.databasesports.com/ncaab/tourney.htm?yr=2004
- ↑ http://woodenaward.cstv.com/ot/coaching-legends.html