It was nice to be undefeated, but it wasn't going to happen. But moments later, Jacobsen gave a different take. Maybe it wasn't realistic to think that way. But I thought if any team could go undefeated, it would be us. In many ways, Saturday's game proved Montgomery's point.
Teams win games both because they're lucky and they're good.
Montgomery said over and over, if the Cardinal didn't play its best against a team playing its best, Stanford would lose. Lavin pointed out that UCLA beat a great Maryland team by 35 points in last year's NCAA Tournament. But on that night, we played so well and they played so poorly. The Cardinal didn't play poorly on Saturday. But it's had luckier days.