2003–04 Stanford Cardinal men's basketball team

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Ranking
Coaches	No. 1
AP	No. 1
Home arena	Maples Pavilion

2003–04 Pacific-10 Conference
men's basketball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No. 6 Stanford†	17	–	1	.944	30	–	2	.938
Washington	12	–	6	.667	19	–	12	.613
Arizona	11	–	7	.611	20	–	10	.667
Oregon	9	–	9	.500	18	–	13	.581
California	9	–	9	.500	13	–	15	.464
USC	8	–	10	.444	13	–	15	.464
Washington State	7	–	11	.389	13	–	16	.448
UCLA	7	–	11	.389	11	–	17	.393
Oregon State	6	–	12	.333	12	–	16	.429
Arizona State	4	–	14	.222	10	–	17	.370

† Conference tournament winner As of April 4, 2004^[1] Rankings from Coaches Poll^[2]

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.^[3] After going undefeated after 14 games, the Cardinal climbed to #2 in both polls (behind only Duke) by the ninth week of the season,^[4] where they remained until the thirteenth week of the season when they reached #1 in both polls.^[5] 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.^[6] 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.^[7]

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

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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)^[9]

References

[1] "Pacific 10 conference 2003–04 standings". Retrieved July 10, 2011.

[2] "2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings". ESPN. Retrieved April 4, 2004.

[3] "2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings - Preseason". ESPN.

[4] "2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings (Jan. 19)". ESPN.

[5] "2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings (Feb. 16)". ESPN.

[6] "2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings (Mar. 8)". ESPN.

[7] "2004 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings (Mar. 15)". ESPN.

[8] ttp://www.databasesports.com/ncaab/tourney.htm?yr=2004

[9] ttp://woodenaward.cstv.com/ot/coaching-legends.html

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