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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Lots of great west coast baskeball stuff at Swish Appeal. In the latest, Q asks: Is Stanford Just Bored?

Something interesting happened in the AP rankings besides the University of Tennessee rising to #3 after Notre Dame got pummeled by UConn: Stanford got 960 votes, the most they’ve gotten this season since before their loss to UConn.

Perhaps that makes sense because voters felt compelled to give Stanford a few of Notre Dame’s votes after their demoralizing loss to UConn.

Yet ironically, the talk out of Palo Alto after Stanford's 66-51 win over the University of Washington was all about how they're playing "uninspired" basketball. One comment in particular from forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike stands out as particularly alarming: