Stanford fires Jerod Haase after eight seasons with zero NCAA Tournament appearances

The Stanford basketball program has now gone 10 years since their last NCAA Tournament appearance, and on Thursday they decided that head coach Jerod Haase was no longer the right person to end that streak as the program fired him.

The decision comes after their second-round loss to Washington State in the Pac-12 Tournament by a score of 79-62. 

Haase was an elite recruiter for the Cardinal, but when it came to on-the-court product, Stanford was average at best. Five-star recruits have come and gone during Haase's tenure which started in 2016-17 with nothing to show for it, and this season was no different.

Haase was hired following a 26-7 season at UAB in 2015-16, and a tenure that saw him accumulate an 80-53 record. He was unable to replicate that success in Palo Alto, accumulating a record of 14-17.

With two top-55 freshmen on a team loaded with experienced upperclassmen and the Pac-12 as weak as ever, the Cardinal found themselves near the bottom of the conference standings. While they could shoot it with the best of them, that was about all that was good on offense and they often fell cold down the stretch. They struggled to get consistency, never formed an identity, and they were also frequently dominated on the boards, while struggling defensively. 

Heading into the season, athletic director Bernard Muir made it clear that progress needed to be shown, otherwise, Haase's time was up.