2003–04 Stanford Cardinal men's basketball team

2003–04 Stanford Cardinal men's basketball
Pacific-10 Regular Season Champions
Pacific-10 Tournament Champions
2004 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Second Round
Conference Pacific-10 Conference
Ranking
Coaches #1
AP #1
2003–04 record 30–2 (17–1 Pac-10)
Head coach Mike Montgomery
Seasons
« 2002–03 2004–05 »
2003–04 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#6 †-Stanford 17   1   .944     30   2   .938
Washington 12   6   .667     19   12   .613
Arizona 11   7   .611     20   10   .667
Oregon 9   9   .500     18   13   .581
California 9   9   .500     13   15   .464
USC 8   10   .444     13   15   .464
Washington State 7   11   .389     13   16   .448
UCLA 7   11   .389     11   17   .393
Oregon State 6   12   .333     12   16   .429
Arizona State 4   14   .222     10   17   .370
† 2004 Pacific-10 Tournament winner
As of April 4, 2004[1] • Rankings from Coaches Poll[2]

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.[3] After going undefeated after 14 games, the Cardinal climbed to #2 in both polls (behind only Duke) by the ninth week of the season,[4] where they remained until the thirteenth week of the season when they reached #1 in both polls.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7]

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

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  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

See also

References

  1. ^ "Pacific 10 conference 2003–04 standings". http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/standings/_/year/2004. Retrieved July 10, 2011. 
  2. ^ "2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings". ESPN. http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/rankings/_/year/2004. Retrieved April 4, 2004. 
  3. ^ "2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings - Preseason". ESPN. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/rankings?seasonYear=2004&weekNumber=1&seasonType=2. 
  4. ^ "2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings (Jan. 19)". ESPN. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/rankings?seasonYear=2004&weekNumber=10&seasonType=2. 
  5. ^ "2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings (Feb. 16)". ESPN. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/rankings?seasonYear=2004&weekNumber=14&seasonType=2. 
  6. ^ "2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings (Mar. 8)". ESPN. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/rankings?seasonYear=2004&weekNumber=17&seasonType=2. 
  7. ^ "2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings (Mar. 15)". ESPN. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/rankings?seasonYear=2004&weekNumber=18&seasonType=2. 
  8. ^ http://www.databasesports.com/ncaab/tourney.htm?yr=2004
  9. ^ http://woodenaward.cstv.com/ot/coaching-legends.html