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Message: [QUOTE="jonson, post: 3791977, member: 6034"] I think this is the best Stanford team--in a decade? (or so)--and legitimately the #1 team in the nation at this point. Last year (after Jones was injured) they were undone by turnovers and scoring droughts--the latter due imo to being overly dependent upon Williams and the volume shooting of one of the Hull twins (don't remember which), both of whom were inconsistent. This year there are many more scoring options, including Wilson from 3 and Brink, who, with Jones, is a star in the making. (I suppose one could say Jones is already there.) I'd like to think Oregon might give them a challenge, especially in the second meeting or maybe in the tournament, but they've got a ways to go to get there. Arizona, on the other hand, seems to me basically the same team as last year despite the infusion of new talent: overly dependent upon McDonald and even more prone than Stanford was last year to long scoring droughts. Given the talent in Tucson, the whole also seems to me less than the sum of its parts. [/QUOTE]