Jerod Haase and the Stanford Cardinal will enter the 2019-20 college basketball season mostly hoping they can reach their full potential.

To be able to do such a thing has little to do with chemistry or cohesion, at least not at the start. Instead, it's about avoiding injury and other medical calamities.

“The most important part for our team this year it’s probably going to be health. Trevor Stanback is in a medical hardship and he’ll be done, and he’s helped out with the team but he won’t be playing,” Jerod Haase said.

From a numbers standpoint we’re down, and we don’t have a full complement of players necessarily. But having said that, the guys that we have, we’re really excited about, but that goes back to the number one factor being injury prevention. If we can keep guys on the floor, I like what we have but we’ve got to make sure we keep them out there.”

Expect junior point guard Daejon Davis to do the heavy lifting for the Stanford Cardinal when the college basketball season tips in less than two weeks.

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