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
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

^[6]

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

Stanford Cardinal men's basketball

Venues	Stanford Pavilion (1922–1968) Maples Pavilion (1968–present)

Culture & lore	Stanford Tree "Come Join the Band"

People	Head coaches

Seasons	1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Helms and Premo-Porretta national championships in bold; NCAA Final Four appearance in italics; NCAA championship in bolded italics

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