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Note: I'm not using the NEW COMMIT banner for PWOs anymore since that seems to be what most of you wanted. Totally cool with me.

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Three key players with eligibility remaining, none a likely high draft pick as far as I know (though Kelly could go Day 2 I suppose).

NCAA.org site has Men's College Basketball Attendance Data all the way back from 1978. (1978 means 1977-1978 season and so forth)

Here's some info on Stanford attendance under the respective coaches.

DiBiaso

• Overall Average - 4,220 (1978-1982)
• Season Low Average - 3,694 (1980)
• Season High Average - 4,750 (1978)

Davis

• Overall Average - 4,972 (1983-1986)
• Season Low Average - 4,258 (1983)
• Season High Average - 5,721 (1986)

Montgomery

• Overall Average - 6,016 (1987-2004)
• Season Low Average - 3,533 (1993)
• Season High Average - 10,088 (1999 - included non-Maples games... other than that 1989 is High with 7,406)
• Interesting to note - 2004 season with the undefeated winning streak had average attendance of 6,344

Johnson

• Overall Average - 6,498 (2005-2008)
• Season Low Average - 5,438 (2006)
• Season High Average - 7,331 (2008)

Dawkins

• Overall Average - 5,290 (2009-2016)
• Season Low Average - 4,393 (2016)
• Season High Average - 6,724 (2009)

Haase

• Overall Average - 3,565 (2017-Present - including 2023 season to date average)
• Season Low Average - 2,360 (2022 - Post COVID Season)
• Season High Average - 4,169 (2018)
• 2023 season to date average currently at 3,296

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Guess you will have to keep doing nothing to get paid. Honestly, no surprise.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35564875/sources-broncos-finalizing-deal-saints-sean-payton

Screw it, I'll start.

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Umeh reports a 4.0 GPA, is currently in 4 AP classes, and wants to study Computer Science. Texas also offered today. Texas A&M, USC, Notre Dame, Iowa, and Nebraska (among others) have offered in the past month.

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Eubanks has followed 13 more 2024s in addition to Umeh, and I'll continue to use him as the barometer until something changes. There are also some follows from before the staff turnover, but I'm not sure how those still factor in now.

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Did that experiment work?

3-11 FGs (not to mention 2-6 FTs) 4 TOs. 4 PFs. 8 points.

You decide-

A. Promising, a work in progress
or
B. We need to tweek some things
or
C. This go small thingy works against some teams and not others so we'll use it when appropriate
or
D. It is obvious she's not a 4

I'm just surprised we could win with her only scoring 8.

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At first, when I saw that our team had only a score of 406.75 in yesterdays competition, I was surprised, concerned, and a bit mystified, given that we had scored 420.1 last week. Of course when I looked at the full results and saw that 5 of our best gymnasts weren't competing for Stanford, but for team USA, the reason for the lower score became obvious. So I thought I'd figure the score if all were competing for us, and the score came out to 424.70. For comparison, 423.628 won a national championship for us last year, with Oklahoma 2nd at 414.555.

Bear in mind that that score is deceptively high, since the team can't compete 10 iguys in each eveny and cherry pick the 5 best scores. On the other hand, if every one was competing, people wouldn't have to compete in as many events, and might be fresher and possibly score higher.

In any event, given that its early season, and we're missing agruably 2 of our 3 best gymnasts, these results seem fantastic to me. But not really surprising, since we seem to have a super team.

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One of the good things about this game was that it clarified the starters.

Our 5 starters played far more minutes than the rest of the team - as it should be.

Now, maybe that was just a small lineup thing that doesn't apply going forward.

We'll see

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amazing

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Read that here. I also included a link to the final minute of Stanford's victory over Rhode Island in the Elite Eight. That was fun to watch.

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Ok, here is the women's basketball recruiting notes thread for January. The December thread is here.


Just copying and pasting what I wrote in the December thread:

For 2024, 4-star forward Toby Fournier (Crestwood Secondary, Ontario, Canada) included Stanford in her top eight in October. Stanford also is on 4-star point guard Shay Ijiwoye (Desert Vista, Phoenix, AZ), 2024 4-star combo guard Avary Cain (Saint Joseph, Santa Maria, CA) and 2024 5-star guard/forward Jordan Lee (Saint Mary's High School, Stockton, CA). Lee visited in the fall.

Other 2024 names: 4-star guard Mikayla Blakes (Rutgers Prep, Somerset, NJ), 5-star forward Joyce Edwards (Camden High School, Camden, SC), 4-star guard Tajianna Avant-Roberts (La Jolla Country Day, La Jolla, CA), 5-star guard Morgan Cheli out of Mitty, and 5-star post Blanca Thomas (Charlotte Catholic, Charlotte, NC).

For 2025, obviously 4-star guard Hailee Swain is already committed out of Holy Innocents in Marietta, GA. Two others I have in 2025 are 5-star wing Jasmine "Jazzy" Davidson out of Clackamas High School in Oregon and then 4-star forward Sienna Betts out of Grandview High School in Aurora, CO. Sienna is the younger sister of Lauren Betts.

I also forgot to circle back on visitors for the Tennessee game. The only visitor they had was Hailee Swain. That was it. I mentioned Swain visited earlier, but I said I was going to circle back on who else was there.

Outside of that, not a lot of new developments from last month to this month. With signing day behind us in November, December was kind of a more quiet month.

As far as how the 2024 recruits rank, ESPN Hoop Gurlz rates them as follows: Joyce Edwards is #2, Blanca Thomas is #9, Jordan Lee is #15, Morgan Cheli is #18, Mikayla Blakes is #21, Toby Fournier is #23, Tajianna Avant-Roberts is #24, Avary Cain is #31, and Shay Iwojie is #52. Stanford will obviously take whoever of that group wants to come, but ideally, they'll get a nice blend of size and guard-play in this group as is always the goal. Ultimately, if they can land Edwards and Thomas, that alone would make this class really freaking good. They land those two and then add one other player from this list, that would be fantastic.

One thing that does help is that a couple of these targets are local (Cheli and Lee). It's always a plus to have some local players who are rated this high. I'll check to see if anyone else on that list has been added as a potential target.

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Former Columbia commit 2023 DT Braden Marceau-Olayinka, who visited this past weekend, has flipped to Stanford.

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