Stanford forward Reid Travis (22) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Arizona, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, in Tucson, Ariz. Arizona defeated Stanford 74-67. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

Taking a look at how Stanford performed last week in Arizona and at Arizona State. Arizona is one of the top schools in the country. The last time Arizona and Stanford met was at Maples Pavilion where the Wildcats dominated the Cardinal. Fast forward to last week the Cardinal made a game of it against the Wildcats with tenacity in Tucson. It was a very close game and it could have gone either way the Cardinal were down just by three or four points at the half.

Unfortunately they lost not only to Arizona but they lost to ASU on the trip and also earlier at Maples as well. It was thought that ASU was a team that the Cardinal could handle apparently they couldn’t. That’s too bad because if Stanford were able to pull it off against either Arizona or ASU that would have been a good deal for them.

Jerry Feitelberg does the Stanford Men’s basketball podcasts each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com