Stanford fires coach Jerod Haase after eight seasons

Stanford has fired males’s basketball coach Jerod Haase, the college introduced Thursday evening, lower than 10 minutes after the Cardinal’s season ended within the Pac-12 match.

Stanford misplaced to No. 22 Washington State 79-62 within the quarterfinals, bringing a near a 14-18 (8-12 Pac-12) season.

“I’ve not gained right here to the extent that I anticipate,” Haase mentioned after the sport in an emotional information convention. “Similar to I maintain my crew accountable, I am being held accountable, and I’ve no situation with that.”

Haase failed to succeed in the NCAA match in any of his eight seasons on the helm, ending above .500 within the Pac-12 simply as soon as.

“Whereas the on-court outcomes fell wanting our expectations, Coach Haase led our males’s basketball program with nice integrity and made a deeply optimistic affect on many Cardinal student-athletes,” athletic director Bernard Muir mentioned. “As we embark on the seek for our subsequent head coach, I want Jerod and his household all one of the best sooner or later.”

Haase led Stanford to a 19-16 (11-7) file in his second 12 months and had the Cardinal on the precipice of the NCAA match in 2020. However they misplaced their final three video games and certain would have missed the sphere had the match not been canceled.

Stanford has struggled over the previous three seasons, with Muir releasing a press release after the 2021-22 marketing campaign that Haase can be again as coach however wanted to indicate enchancment. The Cardinal then had their worst marketing campaign since Haase’s first 12 months in cost, ending 14-19 general and 7-13 within the league.

This season, regardless of the addition of two top-50 recruits, they could not generate momentum. Stanford scored 100 factors and beat Arizona on New 12 months’s Eve, however a six-game shedding streak in February and early March sealed Haase’s destiny.

Haase completed his Stanford profession with a file of 126-127.

“If this system was good proper now, I might nonetheless be the coach,” Haase mentioned. “It isn’t good. There should be some developments and enhancements. … It’s an inflection level as a result of there’s so many large adjustments, large choices which are happening proper now. I consider Stanford is a spot of nice ingenuity, creativity and want to guide. The reality is a whole lot of these are onerous choices, particularly while you worth the scholar-athlete, you worth the expertise, you worth improvement of gamers. They don’t seem to be straightforward conversations, and [there are not] a whole lot of straightforward options.”

Previous to taking up in Palo Alto in 2016, Haase was the coach of UAB for 4 seasons. He led the Blazers to the NCAA match in 2015, the place they beat Iowa State within the first spherical as a 14-seed earlier than shedding to UCLA. He additionally spent 13 seasons as an assistant coach below Roy Williams at Kansas — the place he performed his faculty ball — and North Carolina.

The varsity mentioned a nationwide search would start instantly. Washington State’s Kyle Smith and Princeton’s Mitch Henderson are anticipated to be main candidates, sources instructed ESPN.

Info from The Related Press was used on this report.