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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3792842, member: 1220"] Stanford seems to be the obvious best team in the Nation this season. They not only have quality at ever position, but quality depth behind the starters. Depth goes a long way when it comes to consistency. Teams like Arizona and also UCLA this season have quality starters by little depth. This is why when their starters have off games they can not compete with solid teams like Stanford. Oregon also appears to have depth behind quality starters, but we shall see how they will match up against Stanford. This does not mean that Stanford is unbeatable. We need to remember that any team can be beaten by a team close to their level of talent on a given night. However, the odds decrease when a team has the level of talent and depth that Stanford posssesses. We should also always put individual games into perspective and not allow them by themselves to dictate our complete opinion of any team. Teams and players play on a sliding scale and individual games will fall somewhere between their good and bad performances. We can not really judge where a teams performance level is based on a single game. [/QUOTE]