The 2003–04 Stanford Cardinal men's basketball team represented Stanford University in the

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. It was Head Coach

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's eighteenth and final season with the Cardinal. The Cardinal were a member of the Pacific-10 Conference and were the Pac-10 regular season champions as well as the Pac-10 Tournament champions.

Roster

Schedule and results

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Rankings

Stanford was ranked #17 in the preseason Coaches' Poll and #20 in the preseason

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. After going undefeated after 14 games, the Cardinal climbed to #2 in both polls (behind only

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) by the ninth week of the season, where they remained until the thirteenth week of the season when they reached #1 in both polls. The Cardinal remained there until dropping to #2 in the sixteenth week (behind undefeated St. Joseph's) after their undefeated streak of 26 games ended when they were upset by

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. The Cardinal returned to the #1 ranking the following week (the final poll of the season) after St. Joseph's lost 87–67 to Xavier in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 tournament.

Pac-10 tournament

NCAA tournament

Awards and honors

, Legends of Coaching Award (adopted by the

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Committee)

2004 NBA draft

References

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