2000 STANFORD INVITE
MARCH 4–5, PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA

....onto that other record-holding team, the Black Tide. Hollywood and James are gone, we know, and Brandon Steets is ineligible. But Ernie Aubin, and Adam Glimme, and Tommy Burfeind, and Oren Skoog, and Jamie Houssian are in the house. But it's a different Tide team this year, and they've already lost to UC San Diego. Twice. At their own tournament. Definitely a new year. So here in Stanford, they were logically seeded 5th, third seed in the pool behind UCSD and Brown.

First game of the day: a UCSD – UCSB rematch. Could the Black Tide get back some respect on these San Diego boys? What a peculiar situation – when was the last time the Black Tide were getting short-shrift on the respect department? One year can be a long time for college teams.

Well, the ghost of Tides past came right back to put the Fear in San Diego, who went down 9-3 in the match. The Squids looked completely out of sync. They were playing 7 different games on each point. No one was making connections at all. They looked loose when they should have been tight, and tight when they should have been loose. Is it true that you're only as good as your last game? Santa Barbara won by four...

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