Stanford to keep Haase as men's basketball coach
Stanford men's basketball coach Jerod Haase will return to the program next season, school officials announced Thursday night after the Cardinal's loss to Arizona in the Pac-12 tournament quarterfinals.
The 95-84 defeat to the second-seeded Wildcats ended Stanford's season, Haase's seventh in charge.
Under Haase, the Cardinal has never reached the NCAA Tournament and has made the NIT once. Haase's best overall season was 2019-20, when the Cardinal went 20-12 and was projected by some to reach March Madness before the coronavirus pandemic shut down the sports world.
The Cardinal reached the NCAA Tournament 13 times in 14 years under former coaches Mike Montgomery and Trent Johnson.
Their successors, Johnny Dawkins and Haase, have produced one berth in 15 years, and none since 2014.
While the impact of academic standards on recruiting has been cited as a reason for the football program's downturn toward the end of David Shaw's tenure, men's basketball has still brought in talent.
Haase's 2023 recruiting class is arguably his best at Stanford: Guard Kanaan Carlyle (No. 38 on ESPN's Top 100) and 6-foot-7 wing Andrej Stojakovic (No. 23) are both four-star recruits set to arrive in the fall. He's also brought top recruits Harrison Ingram (2021), Ziaire Williams (2020) to The Farm, but neither reached the NCAA Tournament.
— Michael Nowels ST. JOHN'S FIRES MEN'S BASKETBALL
COACH ANDERSON
St. John's fired men's basketball coach Mike Anderson on Friday, one day after his fourth season in charge ended with an overtime loss to No. 6 Marquette in the Big East Tournament quarterfinals.
Athletic director Mike Cragg announced the move just two years after Anderson was the Big East coach of the year, earning him a contract extension through the 2026-27 season. But the Red Storm never made the
NCAA Tournament under Anderson and went 1815 during a rocky 2022-23 season.
Even before the move became official, there was speculation St. John's would target Iona coach Rick Pitino as Anderson's replacement. The 70-year-old former Kentucky and Louisville coach has roots in the Big East and grew up on Long Island, not far from the St. John's campus in Queens.
Golf STORMS INTERRUPT SOME
OF THE CHAOS AT PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP >> Chad Ramey became the only player to reach double digits under par at The Players Championship. The TPC Sawgrass, as usual, had the final say.
Ramey put two tee shots in the water on the islandgreen 17th hole Friday for a quintuple-bogey that cost him a three-shot lead on a day of wild swings and, eventually, wild weather.
The second round was suspended with half the field unable to finish the round because of a storm system expected to dump a half-inch of rain on the Players Stadium Course.
Christiaan Bezuidenhout of South Africa and Adam Svensson of Canada shared the lead at 8-under par, both doing what it takes to stay in front on this course. They didn't make a bogey Friday — Bezuidenhout through 14 holes, Svensson through 11 holes — and they have only one for the week.
Ben Griffin was the clubhouse leader at 6-under 138. Two-time major champion and Cal alum Collin Morikawa was 6 under through 11 holes, while Min Woo Lee was at 6 under with three holes left in his round.
Players were to return at 7 a.m. Saturday to finish the second round. The third round is schedule for threesomes off both tees and should be able to finish before sundown. That depends on the pace of play, and some of that depends on Sawgrass.
Jon Rahm missed all of this. The world's No. 1 player had a bad stomach bug and withdrew just before his tee time.