That...Didn't Go As Planned

I’m sure it would be needlessly expensive (not to mention a burden on the student-athletes in terms of missed classes) to extend the tournament to 5 days, or even 7, just to give teams a break in between games.

You’re right, though, in that you often see high-seeds bomb out in the first round because they just couldn’t be bothered to care. Arizona did this a couple times as a #1 seed, IIRC.

Some conferences with only 16 game regular season can end their regular season 1 week ealier in the season so that they can play the conference tourney over 2 weekends. Others are geographically close enough to play every other day since they can easily travel in a few hours. Unfortunately the Pac-10 doesn’t have those options.

4 games, 4 days. in a row
Some teams get the first day bye, some first and second day bye

This team lost in the first 5 minutes when it was clear that ASU was going to take away our 3 point shooters by marking them closely, and we were not able to respond with anything inside. What’s worse, our defense gave way too many open looks. We weren’t moving our feet on D, and drew some quick fouls.

The Arizona win was incredible! A great comeback after being down by a lot in the first half.
The USC victory was also exciting, but we DID need OT to take care of an underperforming visitor, at home.

Losing badly in games on ESPN and CBS will not help the Bears come seeding time.

Inconsistent play, and consistently getting beat inside has me worried. We have lost 3 of 5, of which 2 were blowouts and 1 was to a team that went winless in Pac10 play last year. Not good.

But hey – let’s celebrate the positive, no? This team was picked to finish 8th in the conference. 3rd place and an NCAA bid is FaNtAsTiC !!!!!!!!

An 8 or 9 seed plays the #1 in the 2nd round, if they advance at all. Even a 7 seed plays a deadly 2 seed.
But a 6 seed gets a relatively weaker 11 seed in the 1st and then only a 3rd seed in the 2nd, giving them a chance. Lots of 6 seeds beat 3 seeds, historically. 7’s over 2’s, not so much. The stats, which I have compiled or our betting league, bear this out.

If the Bears had a chance at a 6 seed, they needed to finish strong. Now it will take making it to the Pac10 champ game to gain that possibility back.

Those OSU loses really smart right about now. You have to play the entire season like every game counts. Because, at the end, they do. It’s a mindset they will likely have next year. There were games they won that they shouldn’t have this year, and games they lost that they shouldn’t have. I doubt that’ll be the case next year.

Yeah, I’m just glad the men got the split at the Arizona schools.

What’s the return time on Grey Lawson?

Owens doesn’t have any problems with the law.

He could be a role model for him.

The Bills have the potential to win the division. TO and Marshawn should make a music video together. Not much else.

I don’t like any of our match-ups reallt.. unless we’d get OSU somehow (don’t know how the TB works)

If we can beat our first round opponent

I think this means Cal plays the winner of the OSU vs. USC game in the tourney…assuming Arizona beats the ’furd.

If OSU and Stanford win then there’s a 4 way clusterfuck at 8-10 for 5th place and I’m not going to spend 30 minutes trying to figure that one out.

we’ve matched up horribly with osu both times, though. i feel like our poor shooting in each contest was not a coincident, but an effect of their defense and our frustration.

geez, ’Zona scored 50 in the first half? they want a tourney berth badly.

of course, i think they need to win today, then beat ASU in the Pac-10 tourney opener to secure an at-large bid.

I dunno…strategically, I think you gotta try to at least win the first game. Winning the whole thing would be nice, but not necessary. You’d really, really love to get a 6 seed or higher, but avoiding the deadly 8-9 game should be incentive enough.

Time to run the ‘we always get to play at home in the tourney’ gauntlet