Card Clicks: VanDerveer Says Pac-12 Deserves More Respect
by Scott Allen on Feb 9, 2025 6:30 AM PST
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Tara VanDerveer takes issue -- and rightly so -- with ESPN analyst Carolyn Peck's suggestion that Duke might be more deserving of a No. 1 overall seed than Stanford because the Blue Devils play in the ACC. Puh-lease. | SF Chronicle
The No. 4 Cardinal host USC tonight. Stanford defeated the Trojans, 61-53, in December. | Mercury News
The Stanford men look to complete a regular season sweep of UCLA. | The Stanford Daily
Jon Wilner suggests that the Cardinal's main problem is a lack of mental and physical toughness. | College Hotline
Interviews from NorCal Baseball Media Day. | GoStanford
Here's an excellent look at the recruiting rankings for every Pac-12 school's 2012 class. | Pacific Takes
David Shaw must decide how to discipline Shayne Skov. | Stanford Football Blog
Stanford student Ralph Nguyen '12 has created a popular Stanford Meme Facebook page, which features the gem below. Ouch. | The Stanford Daily
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Tara is completely correct
It’s too bad that Stanford doesn’t play Duke this year (like a few years ago). What I’ve seen from Duke recently is that, barring that Final Four run a few years ago, they get a high seed, and then fizzle mightily in the early rounds. And she is totally in the right in saying that Cal is a top-25 team and is really, really good. They’re the only team, other than Tennessee, that has put a scare in Stanford at home the past four years. And that’s including UConn.
As for the meme page, I was laughing at a lot of those last night. They’re skewed younger with references to the Axe & Palm and the Circle of Death (as opposed to the Intersection of Death), but they’re still pretty good.
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by RedOscar on Feb 9, 2025 9:16 AM PST reply actions
Here's my favorite part:
“(VanDerveer) pointed out that the No. 22 Tar Heels (17-5) are ranked even though they lost to Connecticut by 51 and Duke by 40 and their RPI is 101st in the country. ’That’s crazy,’ she said.”
Yes it is.
by Scott Allen on Feb 9, 2025 10:59 AM PST up reply actions
The east coast bias...
Is alive and well. Lest any of you thought it was fading away, this ACC nonsense should remind everyone it’s still going strong. Go PAC-12!!!
by CardiGrl on Feb 9, 2025 12:40 PM PST reply actions
Twitter is amazing
This is in response to a tweet by C&R referencing the Chronicle story:
CAROLYN PECK @CAROLYNPECK
@StanfordWBBBlog No disrespect 2 Stanford but the ACC has 4 teams in the top 10 & total of 6 in top 25. Committee has 2 consider that.
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by RedOscar on Feb 9, 2025 9:47 PM PST reply actions
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