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Stanford men's basketball alltime team (third team, backcourt)
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A three-guard squad that features players from 1941 to 2006 characterizes our third-team choices for the Stanford men’s basketball alltime squad. The third-team backcourt is revealed here, and the .png)
frontcourt is named in another article posted today.
The fourth-team selection were revealed on Wednesday and the Stanford women’s alltime basketball team was named last week.
The alltime, third-team guards:
Chris Hernandez, G -- Herndanez is the most recent player to make our alltime list, and he was the personification of tough. He missed all but two games of his scond season with a broken foot, and played much of his career with a back problem that limited his practice time, but not his playing time. A three-time all-conference selection, Hernandez played on some of Stanford’s best teams and was a major reason they were so good. As a third-year sophomore, he was the starting point guard on the 2004 Cardinal team that started the season 26-0 before losing its final regular-season game, but still finished the regular season ranked No. 1. He never averaged more than 15.2 points in a season, but his value could not be measured in points, because he was considered the best floor general of his era and nearly always came up with the big shot. Hernandez’s three free throws with two-tenths of a second left to send a game against Washington into overtime (a game Stanford won) were indicative. In 2004, Arizona coach Lute Olson called Hernandez the best opposing floor leader he had seen in his 21 years of coaching, and called Hernandez the best point guard in the country at the time. Hernandez led the team in assists three times and in steals three times. His 43.1 percent careeer shooting on three-pointers ranks seventh best in Pac-10 history, and his 85.6 percent free throw percentage ranks 10th best in the conference. Hernandez is currently finishing up the season as a key member of the C.B. Valladolid team in the Spanish League.
Keith Jones, G – Jones was named all-conference twice (1983, 1984) and his 16.3 career average ranks eighth on Stanford’s alltime list. He led the Pac-10 in scoring in 1984, when he aveaged 20.0 points and he averaged 19.8 points as a junior. His 1,516 points points rank 11th in school history and he probably would be in the top five – possibly the top three – if he had not been limited to nine games his sophomore season. Jones also had 205 career assists and 128 steals, the latter ranking seventh on Stanford’s career list. Jones’ most impressive quality was his efficiency. His 51.9 career field-goal percentage ranks second alltime among Stanford guards (only Todd Lichti is better), and his 55.9 shooting percentage in 1983 is the best single-season percentage by a Stanford guard. (Shooting percentage statistics we not kept before 1950.) The Cardinal finished fifth in the Pac-10 in Jones’ senior season, which may not sound like much, but considering Stanford had finished higher than that just once since 1967 (4th in 1973), it was noteworthy.
Ron Tomsic, G – A three-time all-conference player (1952, 1953, 1955), the 5-11 Tomsic averaged 16.3 points for his career, which is tied for eighth on Stanford’s alltime list. He averaged better than 19 points in two of his seasons, and he missed most of the 1954 season with a knee injury. He is the only Stanford players to score 38 points or more in a game three times. His 1,416 points were a Stanford record at the time of his graduation. He was a member of the 1956 United States’ gold-medal-winning Olympic team that included Bill Russell and K.C. Jones and won its games by an average margin of more than 53 points a game. Tomsic averaged 11.1 points in the Olympics, third-best on the team (and more than Jones), and scored a team-high 18 points in the semifinal victory over Uruguyay. Tomsic and Jim Walsh, Tomsic’s teammate on the 1956 Olympic team, are the only two Stanford players to play on U.S. Olympic basketball teams.
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