Cal at UCLA Women's Basketball game PLUS (!) Men's Post-Game Thoughts
by TwistNHook on Mar 1, 2009 11:22 AM PST
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PrintFirstly, let's get to some post-game thoughts about the men's basketball game. This is my thought about the game. Honestly, if I was Neuheisal, I'd be upset. The UCLA basketball team does a better job at scoring 7 points in 1 possession than your football team. It's not often that a basketball team outshines a football team at scoring touchdowns.
But that's your 2008 UCLA Bruin football squad for ya! Their passion bucket, not quite as "runneth over" as the basketball team.
And to make matters worse, it was Cal doing its best Kevin Craft impersonation with 14 turn-overs on the day (and, IIRC, 12 in the first half).
A few more thoughts:
1. PC has 16 points on the day. Certainly, not a bad offensive day against a rugged UCLA D, right? But IIRC, he scored about 11 of those in the earliest part of the game and then got 2 quick fouls. So, for the vast majority of the game, he scored 5 points.
2. Collison, excuse me, DC led all scorers with 22. You have to give him great respect. He's been one of the best players of the Howland era and the clear leader of the UCLA team this year. He was, in particular, a beast in the second half. Cal played much better in the second half with far fewer turn-overs. But Collison by my count scored 17 of his points in the second half. Ouch. Cal only lost by four, so limit the first half turn-overs and limit the second half Collison and you can make up 4 points pretty easy there. This was a winnable game, but Collison just took it over in the second half.
3. Finally, Dragovic's facial hair leads me to believe he has a large store of roofies somewhere in his house. He must be an extra from Deuce Bigalow 3: Eastern European Adventure. And what's up with the accent over the C? I'm going to need a guide as to which consonents do and do not allow accents over them. Soon, we'll have tilde's over Ls and umlauts over an S. I can't handle this modern work a day world.
"Nicola Dragovic celebrates his touchdown!" via seattlepi.nwsource.com
Also, don't forget, there is also the woman's game today against UCLA. Cal is coming off of a brutal, but significant victory over USC. Win out and Cal would win the Pac10 title! Here is the broadcast information:
Sunday, Mar. 1, 12:00 p.m.: No. 4 Cal at UCLA, Los Angeles, Calif. (Radio: KALX 90.7-FM, TV: FSN)
And behind the fold, there is more information regarding the UCLA woman's team.
SCOUTING UCLA The UCLA Bruins are also trying to erase the memory of a stunning upset, theirs coming at the hands of Washington in Seattle last Friday in a game without their leading scorer, Doreena Campbell.
The Bruins have only won two of their last eight games, but have won four of their last six games at Pauley Pavilion. The Bruins own a 12-3 record on the home court this season, the most wins a UCLA team has posted in Pauley Pavilion since the 1998-99 team went 13-3.
The Bruins are a strong rebounding team, ranked second in the Pac-10 and No. 8 in the nation in rebound margin, outrebounding their opponents by an average of 9.7 per game.
In the first meeting of the season between the two teams, the Bears trailed, 23-22, at the half, but opened up the second period on a 7-0 run. Ashley Walker's 17 points fueled the comeback with the Bears outscoring the Bruins 42-25 after halftime. Devanei Hampton had a double-double with 11 points and 12 rebounds. The Bears outrebounded the Bruins 36-26 in the game.
UCLA leads the all-time series 39-14 with Cal winning the last four meetings including a dramatic 73-70 overtime victory at Pauley Pavilion last season.
STARTERS IN LAST GAME
Ht.,Yr. 08-09 GP/GS PPG RPG
11 F Atonye Nyingifa 5-11, Fr. 24 GP/9 GS 6.0 ppg 4.3 rpg
31 C Moniquee Alexander 6-6, Jr. 24 GP/7 GS 5.0 ppg 5.0 rpg
2 G Tierra Henderson 5-10, Sr. 18 GP/16 GS 6.4 ppg 4.2 rpg
10 G Allison Taka 5-8, Jr. 24 GP/1 GS 2.8 ppg 0.3 rpg
13 G Erica Tukiainen 6-0, Jr. 24 GP/23 GS 8.5 ppg 3.4 rpg
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As I said earlier,
there were a bunch of big name football and basketball recruits on hand….
I’ll have more information when the Rivals post is up, but Lache Seastrunk was definitely there… along with Randall Carroll’s teammate Anthony Jefferson, who is studly (we also gave him his first offer).
You ain't got it like Marshawn got it
I have found the game on DirecTV channel 655.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:00 PM PST reply actions
Alexis Gray-Lawson is done. She is on crutches.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:00 PM PST reply actions
UCLA is 15-1 when leading at the half.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:00 PM PST reply actions
I’m not sure.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:04 PM PST up reply actions
Hampton has tied the game with that free throw.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:02 PM PST reply actions
Change of possession?
The possession didn’t change.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:04 PM PST reply actions
UCLA pressed and they left Hampton all alone under the hoop.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:05 PM PST reply actions
Damn, UCLA has captured the lead again.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:06 PM PST reply actions
That would’ve been really nice if Morris had converted.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:13 PM PST reply actions
We need to tighten up our defense.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:15 PM PST reply actions
How many more empty possessions can you have?
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:19 PM PST reply actions
s'up yall
watching the game, forgot about the blog :-)
I haven't seen that many tear-stained dollar bills since my dad hired a stripper for my uncle's funeral.
That was one horrible pass.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:24 PM PST reply actions
do we know what happened to Gray-Lawson??
and HOLY CRAP, 18 turnovers???
I haven't seen that many tear-stained dollar bills since my dad hired a stripper for my uncle's funeral.
I think she slipped driving to the hoop and messed up her knee.
She’s on the bench in crutches.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:26 PM PST up reply actions
We need Lexi.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:25 PM PST reply actions
This is probably our worst defensive game of the season.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:27 PM PST reply actions
not sure i can take another emotionally devastating loss after last night…
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
It’s on FSN Florida Plus Alternate, which is DirecTV channel 655.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:28 PM PST up reply actions
Mike Sweeney the cameraman?
damn, I didn’t realize the A’s were so cheap!
I haven't seen that many tear-stained dollar bills since my dad hired a stripper for my uncle's funeral.
Tukiainen is killing us.
We’re down by five!
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:33 PM PST reply actions
you can really tell how much Alexis means to our team… not even athletically, you can tell the team is emotionally affected. They’re out of sync, and they just look lost. Alexis is so important to the soul of this team.
I haven't seen that many tear-stained dollar bills since my dad hired a stripper for my uncle's funeral.
totes?
I haven't seen that many tear-stained dollar bills since my dad hired a stripper for my uncle's funeral.
ok, i had to look that one up. new to me. but I got it.
I haven't seen that many tear-stained dollar bills since my dad hired a stripper for my uncle's funeral.
Are you def totes for cereal like fuck that you didn’t know what totes meant?
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This doesn’t look good at all.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:36 PM PST reply actions
Ugh, I had to mute so I didn't hear their f***ed fight song.
I haven't seen that many tear-stained dollar bills since my dad hired a stripper for my uncle's funeral.
They were forcing things.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:59 PM PST up reply actions
We still should get a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament, but it’s going to be a tough game against Arizona State. We’ll probably see Arizona State in the Pac-10 tournament.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 1:42 PM PST reply actions
would we still get a 2 seed? I dunno, it was already gonna be difficult for us to get a 1 seed ‘cause the Pac-10 isn’t seen as a strong conference. Well. time will tell…
I haven't seen that many tear-stained dollar bills since my dad hired a stripper for my uncle's funeral.
ESPN has us as a 3 seed
but I don’t believe it’s possible for us to go to Berkeley. Berkeley is hosting the sweet 16 and elite 8 and a team can’t have a home game after the first 2 rounds. But Stanford is allowed to play a regional final in the Bay Area, which is totally not horribly unfair and insane!
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well, at least they say it's only a knee sprain...
so maybe she sits out the Pac-10 Tournament and she’ll be okay by the time the Big Dance comes around.
I haven't seen that many tear-stained dollar bills since my dad hired a stripper for my uncle's funeral.
I’m more worried about Lexi than the game… We can make a deep tourney run
You ain't got it like Marshawn got it
I agree. This game is unfortunate. However, we need to think big picture here. Big picture is we are going to the NCAA Tourney. Even if we lose the rest of our regular season games and then lose in the first round of the Pac10 Tourney. Sure, the seed would be lower, but a team without Lexi is going to be wildly different anyway and perhaps not at the level of a 1 or 2 seed. We’ll see.
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I think the Hack-a-Shaq
should be implemented earlier in women’s games… if you have the players to foul
You ain't got it like Marshawn got it
You want to make women’s basketball more unwatchable?
by BearsNecessity on Mar 1, 2009 1:51 PM PST up reply actions
where’d you find that pic? I couldn’t find any good ones.
I haven't seen that many tear-stained dollar bills since my dad hired a stripper for my uncle's funeral.
had to add another one...
I know, i know, it’s not right.
I haven't seen that many tear-stained dollar bills since my dad hired a stripper for my uncle's funeral.
I don’t think so.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 1, 2009 2:00 PM PST up reply actions
In my (incredibly limited) experience
The women’s refs REALLY let them play. I’ve watched Cal play Stanford multiple times the last few years, and Cal and Stanford have 2 of the best inside games in the nation. When they meet up they beat the absolute crap out of each other and the refs let them. I haven’t seen any evidence that the refs are biased in either direction – the fouls tend to be pretty even, but the games get really really ugly, and if I weren’t a Cal fan they would be hard to watch. Bodies fly.
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