No. 21 Stanford is 10-5 on the season, and won the outright Pac-12 Championship with a 6-1 conference record. The title was the program's first since 2015, and its first outright title since 2003.
The opening win over Santa Clara on March 12 came after 374 days between events. Stanford was among the final teams nationally to begin its season.
Stanford earned its 41st NCAA Tournament selection, and 13th in a row, and was sent to Charlottesville, Virginia where fifth-seeded Virginia will host. Stanford faces No. 40 LSU on Saturday, with the winner facing the victor of the host Cavaliers and Fairleigh Dickinson.
Stanford is 6-1 all-time against LSU, with the last meeting coming in 2013, a 4-2 loss in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament in Malibu, California.
Timothy Sah was named the Pac-12 Player of the Week on April 12 after providing the clinching point in each of Stanford's victories over UCLA and USC. Sah, who came back from a 7-6, 5-0 deficit to win against USC, is 8-3 in singles play this season. He was the second-straight Stanford player to win the honor, as Arthur Fery was named the Pac-12 Player of the Week for March 29-April 4. Fery went 3-0 in singles, including a win over the nation's No. 15 singles player, and won both of his doubles matches on the week.
Earlier this week, William Genesen was honored as the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year. He is the fourth athlete in program history to win the award.
Fery leads the team with 10 singles wins, while Timothy Sah ranks second with eight. 11 athletes have at least one victory and seven have at least four.
11 tandems have at least one doubles wins, with the pair of Fery and Alexandre Rotsaert holding a team-leading seven victories together.
Paul Goldstein has established himself among Stanford’s elite men’s tennis coaches in the program’s rich history. In six-plus seasons as the Cardinal mentor, Goldstein’s teams have posted a 111-48 record with a national ranking and a berth in the NCAA Championships in each of his first six seasons.
