[NU Sports] What's the matter with Stanford basketball?

[Mark Ament]

mlinhardt at netzero.net wrote:

>Based on RPI, Pomeroy rankings, and Sagarin we are much better than Stanford at basketball.  
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>I did not think that would ever happen.
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>They have been a #1 or #2 seed in the tournament in recent memory.
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>NU RPI 73, Pomeroy 108, Sagarin 106
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>Stanford RPI 182, Pomeroy 142, Sagarin 157
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>RPI
>http://kenpom.com/rpi.php
>Pomeroy Rankings
>http://kenpom.com/rate.php
>Sagarin
>http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/bkc0506.htm
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>Their football teams did not go bowling either.  Usually Stanford is a model for Northwestern as to what revenue sports programs can be.  I wonder if their sports list has threads like "if only we could be as good as Northwestern" and "we should fire...".
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>Marc Linhardt
>Tech '93
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Before you get too self-satisfied with our relative performance vis a 
vis Stanford, they did win the Sears Cup for like the 10th straight time 
this past year.