"Casey Jacobsen banked in a game-winning jump shot with 3.6 seconds left and Stanford alum Tiger Woods leaped from his front-row seat as the Cardinal prevailed 84-83 in front of Jerry West and Oscar Robertson amid a crowd of 19,804, the largest to watch a college basketball in the state of California."
""It was an exciting time to be part of the Stanford family. Basketball was big. Basketball was important in the Bay Area at the college level," Madsen said. "Over here at Cal and also at Stanford, we're trying to get that back to where it was back then.""
""We're global brands," Smith said of Stanford and Cal. "And these are global brands (in) basketball and it puts us on a level"
Mark Madsen recalls No. 1 Duke visiting Oakland in 2000-01 and Casey Jacobsen's game-winning bank shot before a crowd of 19,804 that included Tiger Woods, Jerry West and Oscar Robertson. Cal and Stanford have struggled recently: Cal has not completed a winning season since 2016-17 and most recently played in the NCAA Tournament the year before that, while Stanford has not reached March Madness since 2014. This week both programs host Duke and North Carolina for four ACC games in the Bay Area, with Duke games expected to sell out and Carolina tickets selling fast. Kyle Smith says the move to the ACC elevates both programs' national profile.
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