Stanford Cardinal NCAA Basketball News

Coach Johnny Dawkins has senior forward Landry Fields and not much else. What he needs is somebody to help Fields provide leadership for a team depleted by graduation and unexpected problems.

"Everybody keeps saying it's a rebuilding year," said Samhan, the quotemaster of Moraga.

A handful of schools began the exhibition season Sunday with blowout victories. Of course, the scores really don't matter unless you're the USC Trojans and you need a second half comeback to beat Division II Cal State Dominguez Hills.

The No. 2 Stanford women's basketball team made its competitive debut Sunday at Maples Pavilion, using its size and strength, as well as its shooting touch, to roll to a 107-49 exhibition victory over Vanguard University.

When the Stanford women's basketball team returned to school this fall, they weren't just hitting the books for their classes.

The Pac-10 basketball season doesn't tip-off for the Stanford women until Jan. 2, 2010 when the Cardinal hosts Cal.

For nearly two hours, some of the best Pac-10 basketball players surrounded Quincy Pondexter.

Two medical setbacks and a legal case have left Stanford's already thin roster depleted two weeks before the men's basketball season opener.

To no one's surprise, Stanford's men's basketball team was picked to finish last in the Pac-10 by a vote of 37 media members who cover Pac-10 basketball.

Stanford men's basketball player Jeremy Green was arrested over the weekend at a campus dormitory on suspicion of felony domestic violence, campus police said Thursday.

Johnny Dawkins has little time to ponder the great challenge he faces in rebuilding Stanford's proud basketball program.

Stanford guard Jeremy Green has been suspended indefinitely by coach Johnny Dawkins for a violation of team rules.

Johnny Dawkins has little time to ponder the great challenge he faces in rebuilding Stanford's proud basketball program.

Landy Fields was so much better than everyone else on the floor during Stanford's intrasquad scrimmage on Tuesday that it's difficult to know what to think.

The Stanford women's basketball team was last seen exiting the Final Four at the hands of UConn.

Stanford freshman Andy Brown will miss the season with a left knee injury. Brown, a 6-foot-8 forward, tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during the Cardinal's practice Saturday, the school said Monday.

University issued the following news release: Cancun Challenge organizers announced the official game times for this fall's Division I men's basketball event played in Cancun, Mexico.

The Cardinal won 20 games overall a year ago and still finished ninth in the Pac-10. Now, without three departed senior starters, it's hard to imagine Stanford mounting a charge toward the league's upper division.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: PF Andrew Zimmerman, a 6-8, 215-pound redshirt sophomore, becomes eligible to play after transferring from nearby Santa Clara , and will compete immediately for a starting job.

Stanford basketball coach Johnny Dawkins must feel like his head is going to explode with all the issues he has to consider as preseason practice gets underway on Friday .