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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3791926, member: 6927"] People shouldn't act like this result is a total shock. Arizona added good pieces primarily through the transfer portal, but they have really struggled to find the same chemistry that last year's squad exhibited. (Indeed, this is always the risk of playing the transfer market and suddenly having a bunch of good players who have no experience playing together.) Stanford, meanwhile, has consistently shown itself to be leaps ahead of last year's iteration, in no small part because the well-documented injury woes seem to be largely behind them for now. Arizona flirted with some disastrous losses earlier in the season against, frankly, weak competition, and survived primarily through sheer grit. But grit wasn't going to be enough in this one. I dare say Stanford is one of precious few teams in the country that Arizona is at this moment simply unable to compete with. [/QUOTE]