Stanford’s Haase will return for eighth season as MBB coach

Stanford men’s basketball coach Jerod Haase will return to the program next season, school officials announced Thursday night after the Cardinal’s loss to Arizona in the Pac-12 tournament quarterfinals.

The 95-84 defeat to the second-seeded Wildcats ended Stanford’s season, Haase’s seventh in charge.

Under Haase, the Cardinal has never reached the NCAA Tournament and has made the NIT once. Haase’s best overall season was 2019-20, when the Cardinal went 20-12 and was projected by some to reach March Madness before the coronavirus pandemic shut down the sports world.

The Cardinal reached the NCAA Tournament 13 times in 14 years under former coaches Mike Montgomery and Trent Johnson.

Their successors, Johnny Dawkins and Haase, have produced one berth in 15 years, and none since 2014.

While the impact of academic standards on recruiting has been cited as a reason for the football program’s downturn toward the end of David Shaw’s tenure, men’s basketball has still brought in talent.

Haase’s 2023 recruiting class is arguably his best at Stanford: Guard Kanaan Carlyle (No. 38 on ESPN’s Top 100) and 6-foot-7 wing Andrej Stojakovic (No. 23) are both four-star recruits set to arrive in the fall. He’s also brought top recruits Harrison Ingram (2021), Ziaire Williams (2020) to The Farm, but neither reached the NCAA Tournament.

Jon Wilner contributed to this story.