SAN FRANCISCO – Stanford has been selected to finish 10th in the 2016-17 Pac-12 men's basketball preseason media poll announced on Friday during the conference's media day at its headquarters in San Francisco.
Returning 10 of its top 11 scorers from a year ago, the Cardinal will usher in the Jerod Haase era this season. Haase, who won 80 games over the last four seasons as the head coach at UAB, was introduced as the Anne and Tony Joseph Director of Men's Basketball on March 25, 2016.
He inherits a Cardinal roster that welcomes back four double-digit scorers in Reid Travis (12.8 ppg), Dorian Pickens (12.3 ppg), Marcus Allen (11.1 ppg), and Michael Humphrey (10.3 ppg) from its 15-win campaign a year ago.
Travis, who also averaged 7.1 rebounds per contest last season, returns to the lineup after being limited to just the first eight games of 2015-16 with a leg injury.
Stanford also welcomes back point guard Robert Cartwright, who missed the entire 2015-16 season after sustaining a compound fracture in his right arm last November. He appeared in 36 games as a freshman during the 2014-15 season.
2016-17 Pac-12 Preseason Media Poll
| Team (first-place votes) | Points |
|---|---|
| 1. Oregon (23) | 320 |
| 2. Arizona (4) | 298 |
| 3. UCLA | 259 |
| 4. California | 209 |
| 5. Colorado | 199 |
| 6. Washington | 167 |
| 7. USC | 163 |
| 8. Utah | 142 |
| 9. Oregon State | 122 |
| 10. Stanford | 119 |
| 11. Arizona State | 78 |
| 12. Washington State | 30 |
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The Cardinal will have to replace 2016 First Team All-Pac-12 performer, Rosco Allen, who averaged 15.6 ppg and 6.5 rpg as a senior last season. Allen, who graduated Stanford last May, is currently playing professionally for Obradoiro in the Liga Endesa in Spain.
Stanford will open the Haase era more than 6,000 miles away from its campus in Shanghai, facing Harvard in the 2016 Pac-12 China Game on Nov. 12 (Nov. 11 . The Cardinal's exciting nonconference slate also includes December trips to Kansas and SMU, and a Thanksgiving visit to Orlando, Florida to face Miami and possibly Iowa State, Gonzaga or Florida in the Advocare Invitational.
The Cardinal will host CSUN on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m. PT in the first of 15 home games at Maples Pavilion this season.