STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Stanford made significant strides on defense last season and now coach Jerod Haase is looking for the same on the offensive end with an experienced roster and highly touted...
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Oscar da Silva is impressed with Bryce Wills’ development into a complete basketball player.
Wills, who was a game-time decision to start due to a sore ankle, scored...
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Oscar da Silva is a tough matchup for anyone. He can score inside and outside and that versatility was on display Sunday night in Stanford's 75-57 victory over Washington...
SEATTLE (AP) — There’s a point in every college basketball team’s season when it’s now-or-never time, and Stanford has reached that point.
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Oscar da Silva handled a lot of the scoring for Stanford. Everyone on the court contributed on defense.
Da Silva had a career-high 27 points and added 15 rebounds,...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Playing in Pauley Pavilion for the first time, Tyrell Terry thought of Russell Westbrook and Lonzo Ball.
Then the Stanford freshman went out and made his own memories with...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jerod Haase believes Stanford is getting close to becoming an elite defensive team. With an up-and-down offense still searching for consistency, that's critical for the...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — If opponents didn’t know who Stanford freshman Tyrell Terry was before Monday night, they should now.
Terry had 20 points and 11 rebounds and Stanford whipped...
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Stanford coach Jerod Haase didn't even name a captain last season because he could not find someone he thought deserved it.
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Even without point guard Daejon Davis, Stanford just kept rolling, widening the gap from start to finish in beating Washington State 98-50 on Thursday night.
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Not even a 35-minute delay at halftime to replace the backboards distracted Josh Sharma or his Stanford teammates.
Sharma scored 22 points and had 12 rebounds to help Stanford beat UCLA 104-80 on Saturday night.
"We came out strong in the second half," Sharma said. "We got it up to a 20-point lead in a short amount of time. We tried to stay focused and stay loose."
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Marcus Sheffield hasn't scored much this season. When he's needed, though, he's ready.
Sheffield, who missed of all last year with an injury, scored a season-high 16 points, including a key 3-pointer, and Stanford rallied to beat Southern California 79-76 on Wednesday night.
"I stay prepared, come in and play defense," Sheffield said. "The shots are going to come."
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Stanford knew exactly who the masked man was at the center of Oregon's defense.
Yet it still didn't matter, as Kenny Wooten blocked more shots than the Cardinal made for most of the first half.
"We were very clear on who he was and what he did," Stanford coach Jerod Haase said, "but we didn't execute the game plan very well."
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — A key component of Stanford's game plan was to come out confident and attack the basket, Oscar da Silva said.
"I tried to be aggressive right from the get-go. I tried to take it at their bigs, get into their zone from the high post, and that worked really well," da Silva said.
The sophomore guard tied a career-high with 23 points and had nine rebounds and a career-high seven assists as Stanford handled Oregon State 83-60 on Thursday night.
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Stanford coach Jerod Haase would like to see KZ Okpala improve his passing and defense over the next few years.
Okpala's scoring? Not an issue at all.
Okpala scored a career-high 30 points and had eight rebounds, and Stanford held on to beat California 84-81 on Sunday.
It's the 12th time this season that Okpala has had 20 or more points, most in the Pac-12 teams and eight more than he had all of last season.
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Daejon Davis scored 15 points with six assists and Stanford beat Washington State 78-66 on Saturday.
WSU cut the lead to 69-64 on Robert Franks' two free throws with 2:28 left but then knocked a potential defensive rebound out of bounds. Bryce Wills made an easy dunk on the next possession to extend the lead and Stanford (9-9, 2-4, Pac-12 Conference) scored six unanswered points in the final 55 seconds.
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Oscar da Silva acknowledged he hasn't always brought the right mindset into a game. He changed that Saturday.
Da Silva scored 21 points and had 10 rebounds, KZ Okpala added 21 points and nine rebounds and Stanford downed Arizona State 85-71 on Saturday to earn its first conference victory.
"He was awesome," Stanford coach Jerod Haase said of da Silva. "He has to be one of the guys who play at a high level. I'd like to see Oscar play like that more consistently."
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Stanford's best player left the program. Reid Travis is now wearing a Kentucky uniform as a graduate transfer.
The Cardinal will try to fill the big shoes of the departed big man, the team's leading scorer and rebounder last season after he was such a fixture during four years on The Farm.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Stanford coach Jerod Haase believes that in due time college basketball will get past its recruiting corruption scandal and regain its credibility.
Programs everywhere are paying close attention to the federal trial on college basketball corruption in Manhattan.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Getting the ball to Reid Travis early is the key to Stanford's offensive success. He gets a few baskets, the opposing team has to adjust and the Cardinal can play free and easy.
They sure did against rival California.
Travis triggered a quick start, finished with 19 points and 13 rebounds, and led Stanford in a 76-58 rout over Cal in the first round of the Pac-12 tournament on Wednesday.
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Stanford had a rough nonconference experience, losing to the likes of Eastern Washington and Portland State. Arizona State was a perfect 12-0 at the same time, with wins over Xavier and Kansas.
The Pac-12 season turned things around for both schools, right through the frantic finish of the teams' regular-season finale.
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — It took a little bit of luck and a pair of big free throws from Dorian Pickens in the final seconds to keep Stanford from getting swept by California this season.
More critically, the Cardinal kept their hopes alive for a first-round bye in the Pac-12 tournament, a break that would be huge for coach Jerod Haase's team.
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Stanford freshman Daejon Davis, coming off a nightmarish 11-turnover game, scored 17 points to help spark the Cardinal to a 70-54 win over Montana on Wednesday night, snapping a four-game losing streak.
"Wins feel great regardless of my stats. If I turn the ball over 100 times and we win, I'm happy for my team," Davis said.
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Joel Berry II had no intentions of repeating his poor shooting performance from the last game.
He showed up at Maples Pavilion more than a half-hour before his teammates for Monday's shootaround, putting up some 200 extra shots from all over the floor — and it worked wonderfully.
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Robert Cartwright enjoys going cold turkey and when it happened seven times in the first half, it makes for an easier game.
For Stanford, going cold turkey means getting three defensive stops in succession and that led to a runaway game.
Cartwright set a career-high for the second straight game, scoring 21 points in Stanford's convincing 84-54 victory over Washington State on Thursday night.
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Stanford returned to the basketball court Friday night after as many as eight of its players completed final exams in the morning.
"I didn't have the guts to play a high-level Division I team today," coach Jerod Haase said after his Cardinal beat Division II Cal State East Bay 79-55.
Reid Travis powered his way to 24 points and 13 rebounds for his fifth double-double of the season and Stanford (7-3) made its first seven shots from the field to take charge from the start.
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — At the family home in South Lake Tahoe, Carol Haase sent her husband out to the shed to search for just the right pieces of wood.
The creative mother of five had begun planning yet another important project in a long list of them for her kids. Son Jerod Haase, in his first season as Stanford men's basketball coach, had commissioned her to create a pair of wood-burning art pieces — including one for outside the Cardinal locker room at Maples Pavilion.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Dorian Pickens hit a tie-breaking 3-pointer with 3 seconds to play and Stanford beat Indiana State 65-62 in the consolation round of the AdvoCare Invitational on Friday.
Pickens' game-winner came just 3 seconds after Indiana State had tied it at 62 on a 3 by Brenton Scott.
"I promise at some point we're going to have some pretty games," Stanford coach Jerod Haase said. "It was certainly a grind."