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Pac-10 Tournament Open Thread: Evening Games
by norcalnick on Mar 11, 2010 5:30 PM PST
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72 comments
SCROLL DOWN FOR CAL-OREGON POST-GAME DISCUSSION
Men's Tournament
2 seed Arizona St. vs. 7 seed Stanford
When: 6:00 PM PST
TV: FSN
Streams: Check Comments
3 seed Washington vs. 6 seed Oregon St.
When: 8:30 PST
TV: FSN
Streams: Check Comments
Women's Tournament
8 seed Arizona vs. 9 seed Washington St.
When: 6:00 PST
TV: None
Streams: Official Pac-10 stream
7 seed Washington vs. 10 seed Oregon St.
When: 8:15 PST
TV: None
Streams: Official Pac-10 stream
What to watch for: Can Washington and Arizona St. continue their late push to make the field of 64? Can Oregon St. or Stanford overcome difficult match-ups and pull the upset? Will this be the last we have to see of Landry Fields, Quincy Pondexter, Derek Glasser, Eric Boateng, or the Tarver brothers?
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Cal vs. Oregon Post Game Thread: Bears Roll Ducks One Last Time, Get Ready for Bruins
by norcalnick on Mar 11, 2010 4:50 PM PST
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19 comments
Jerome Randle didn't miss a shot in the first half (FG 8-8, 3Pt 4-4, FT 2-2, 0 PF, 22 Pts). It felt like Jamal Boykin didn't miss anything in the second half. Patrick Christopher was excellent throughout. Max Zhang returned and block partied it up. Nikola Knezevic made shots. Omondi Amoke dunked it up late. The second unit played most of the final ten minutes. That's about what we wanted in this three day tournament of exhaustion, right?
Who wants to beat UCLA one more time? I know I do.
Your five questions:
1. Has anything you've seen in the first two games of the tournament changed your prediction about the eventual champion?
2. Who is your player of the game, and why?
3. What was the play of the game?
4. The game was over when:
5. Who wins when [Cal or Oregon] faces off against [UCLA or Arizona]? Sorry, I wrote this the evening before the games! Damn these games that happen during working hours!
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Rumors that Masoli's football locker has been "cleaned out."
Has Masoli been kicked off the team?
about 6 hours ago
HydroTech
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Cal vs. Oregon: Pac-10 Tournament Game Thread
by norcalnick on Mar 11, 2010 2:00 PM PST
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439 comments
Time: 2:30 PM PST/5:30 PM EST
TV: FSN
Radio: KFRC 1550 AM
Streams: Check the comments
Oregon survived Washington St. last night after forcing overtime on a miraculous, buzzer-beating tip-in. That earned them the right to face Cal approximately 17 hours later. Hopefully Oregon will be tired after playing 45 minutes of intense basketball last night, but Oregon will be playing for their season and presumably for their coach as Ernie Kent enjoys what everybody is assuming will be his last hurrah.
In two previous matchups Cal beat the Ducks handily. In Berkeley Cal sprinted to a 27 point halftime lead and cruised to a blowout victory. In Oregon Cal shrugged off a sleepy first half to pull away for a lazy 15 point victory. I'll accept either outcome for today's game. Cal doesn't need to win the Pac-10 tournament, but it would be a real relief for all of us if they win this game to remove any sliver of doubt on Selection Sunday.
Welcome to March basketball, California. Comment away and Go Bears!
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Pac-10 Tournament Open Thread - Arizona vs. UCLA
by norcalnick on Mar 11, 2010 11:30 AM PST
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28 comments
4 seed Arizona (16-14, 10-8) vs. 5 seed UCLA (13-17, 8-10)
Time: 12:00 PM PST/3:00 PM EST
TV: FSN
Streams: Check the comments
The best quarter-final game in terms of match-up and intrigue is also the first (good job, Pac-10 schedulers). Two teams that expect to be playing deep into March each year will now need to win the entire tournament to do so. Can Ben Howland orchestrate a stunning turnaround? Can Derrick Williams lead Arizona to their 26th straight NCAA tournament appearance? It starts today.
What to watch: Two members of the Pac-10 All-Freshman team go at it down low when Reeves Nelson and Derrick Williams tangle. Nelson is returning from an eye injury and how he fares against Williams will probably decide the outcome of this game. This also may be your last chance to see Nic Wise, Nikola Dragovic and Michael Roll play Pac-10 basketball. I'll let you decide if that makes you happy or sad.
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A Comprehensive College Basketball Tournament
by ragnarok on Mar 11, 2010 3:00 AM PST
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17 comments
This time of year, everyone is focused on the upcoming NCAA tournament. And they should be. It's a great tournament, in which any team can get hot for a couple games and make a name for themselves. It's enduring popularity is attested by the untold millions of man-hours that are wasted by basketball fans slacking off at work or playing hooky so they can take in the tournament's first few crazy days.
But before we can get to that, we have to select the 64 (ok, 65) teams that are given bids to this tournament. Some teams will play their way in through their conference tournament, while others will be given at-large bids based on their play over the course of the season. And everyone's concerned about seeding -- who you play, and where you play, and which teams you get to avoid until later rounds. In some room somewhere, some group of people figure all this out, and the results are mostly fair. A few teams every year get left out that most people thought should be in, but it's always a case of one team with a marginal résumé being selected over another with an equally marginal résumé.
Still, there's always the arguments that fans of their teams will have...what if our team was just given a chance, or perhaps an opening game that wasn't against a No. 1 seed in an area 8 miles from their campus? What if everybody stood on equal footing? And there's always the nuts (usually fans of perennial bubble teams) that say, "Maybe we should expand the NCAA Tournament again. What about 96 teams?" What about it, indeed. While we're on the subject, what about 128? Or 256? OK, when you start extending the logic ad absuritum, you start to see how such a premise not only strains the NCAA's powers of orgnization (the logistical nightmares of a tournament that is already three weeks long can only multiply by extending it another week, and that doesn't even account for finding places for all these teams to play), but also its bottom line (how many tickets can you sell for a No. 1 vs. No. 64 seed opening game? or, for that matter, No. 19 vs. No. 46?).
No, I think we should keep the tournament at its current size (actually, I think we should lose the play-in game and the last at-large bid -- hardly anyone will miss either one). However, I think I've got a better idea:
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Cal Pro Day
by CaliforniaEternal on Mar 11, 2010 12:28 AM PST
19 comments
I went to Cal Pro Day at Memorial Stadium today. The weather in Strawberry Canyon was just fantastic so that made for a pleasant morning. JO made a list of participants. Jahvid did not participate in any of the activities. They started with the 40 yard dash. The scouts were using stopwatches to time everything, and several spectators in the crowd were also timing with their phones and comparing times. A whole lot less accurate than the slow motion video the NFL combine uses for the official times. After the 40 they split up into different drills like the shuttle run, cone drills, and various position drills. I took this little video of Syd'Quan Thompson running the 40. I also have a few pictures from the event and some SAHPC construction shots as well.
19 comments | 6 recs |
Men's Basketball: California vs Arizona (2010-02-25) torrent
Found this game online, need to unrar the files to watch though.
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