Has Jerod Haase found the formula for winning basketball on the Farm?

By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
Jan. 5, 2024

A year ago, I tweeted the following note about Stanford’s men’s basketball team:

5-9 Stanford is losing by 16 points to 2-13 Cal.

I have nothing personal against Jerod Haase, but he has not made this program into an NCAA team, and at this point I don’t know why the school would bring him back for an eighth season. #GoStanford #NCAAmbb

— Matt Milliken | masks on for safety | mostly @HOME (@memomoment) January 7, 2023

The Cardinal lost that game by 22 points and finished the 2022–23 season with a 14-19 record, including a 7-13 Pac-12 Conference mark. There was no ‪NCAA‬ tournament berth, nor any postseason invitation of any kind.

Suffice to say that I don’t have the ear of Bernard Muir, who has served as Stanford’s athletics director since the summer of 2012. Jerod Haase indeed came back for his eight year as men’s basketball head coach for the Cardinal.