COLLEGE BASKETBALL / Cardinal win by 3rd largest margin ever

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It took Leland Stanford exactly one game to set up a criterion it may pass the remainder of the season chasing.

In their season opener on Friday, the No. Twenty-Three Cardinal rolled up their peak point sum in 17 old age and their third-largest margin of triumph ever while demolishing Harvard University 111-56 in the Basketball Travelers Classic at Maples Pavilion.

The victim was recent Wolverine State manager and former Duke participant Tommy Amaker, who, in his first game as the Crimson's head coach, watched Leland Stanford set his squad away in the game's first six minutes.

"This team, in footing of attack to games in practice, is the best since I've been here," Leland Stanford manager Trent Samuel Johnson said.

It was a successful but uncomfortable season introduction for Leland Stanford junior Antony Goods, who vomited on the bench in the first half.

"I believe it was some spicy chicken," Commodity said.

Nonetheless, Commodity made five of six efforts from three-point range, including 3-for-3 in the 2nd half, to complete with 17 points in 16 proceedings of playing time. No starter motor played more than than 17 proceedings as the Cardinal took a 21-3 Pb 5 1/2 proceedings into the game and coasted.

"Obviously, we were a batch larger and stronger," Samuel Johnson said after watching his squad outrebound Harvard University 50-19.

Stanford surpassed the 100-point mark with 6:29 left, putting the Cardinal in ternary figures for the first clip since December 2003, when they beat out Harvard University 100-59. The Cardinal seemed within range of the school record they put in a 129-108 triumph over Yale University in December 1985, but Leland Stanford had to settle down for its sixth-highest point sum and the most since it beat out UC Irvine 117-87 in December 1990.

The Cardinal could not quite fit the school-record 65-point winning border they established in a 92-27 win over Duquesne in 1937, but that and the 59-point win over New Hampshire in 1999 were the lone wider winning borders than the 55-point triumph Friday.

Not only did the Cardinal whip the Red in every manner imaginable, but Leland Stanford did it with its best two participants virtually absent. Brook Lopez is academically ineligible until Dec. 19, and Lawrence Hill, the team's lone All-Pac-10 participant last season, played only two proceedings before being forced to sit down out the remainder of the first one-half with two fouls. By the clip he returned in the 2nd half, Leland Stanford was already into refuse time.

Don't pencil Leland Stanford into the Concluding Four yet, though. Harvard University was 12-16 last season and is picked to complete 6th in the eight-team Ivy League this season.

Leland Stanford fresher Josh Jesse Owens showed his explosive potentiality by getting 12 points and eight recoils in 19 minutes, and newcomer John Drew Shiller, a transportation from USF, demonstrated he might go a valuable outside menace by making four of five from three-point range.

In the first game of Friday's doubleheader, UC Santa Barbara beat out Northwestern State 92-71. Leland Stanford will play Northwestern State tonight and UC Santa Barbara on Sunday.

Perhaps Harvard University sophomore Jeremy Maya Lin will have got better success tonight. He was The Chronicle's Bay Area Player of the Year in 2005-2006, when he led Palo Alto High School to a triumph over Ma Dei in the Division two state title game. He is a starter motor for the Red but failed to score, going 0-for-6 from the floor. 50-point wins

The greatest wins in Leland Stanford history:

Pts

Score

Opponent

Year

65

92-27

Duquesne

37-38

59

119-60

N. Hampshire

99-00

55

111-56

Harvard

07-08

53

95-42

Lehigh

97-98

51

71-20

UOP

35-36

51

105-54

Seattle

85-86

51

101-50

Cal

99-00

51

100-49

SF State

00-01

50

55-5

Davis Farm

18-19

50

89-39

San Jose St.

88-89

50

92-42

Puget Sound

92-93

Source: Leland Stanford mass media usher

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