Golden Nuggets: Randle and PC Continue to Make History
by Berkelium97 on Mar 8, 2010 5:00 PM PST
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PrintCal was well represented in the awards given out by the Pac-10 today. Randle won Pac-10 Player of the Year, Randle and PC were chosen to be on the Pac-10 all-conference first team, Theo and Boykin made the second team, and Jorge filled a spot on the five-man all-conference defensive team.
By earning spots on the first team for the second year in a row, Randle and PC became part of a select group of Cal players twice chosen for first team all-conference honors.
Jerome Randle and Patrick Christopher are just the 10th and 11th Cal players to earn multiple first-team all-conference honors since the league went to a single division in 1955-56.
By making the all-Pac-10 first team for the second straight year, they join the select company of ex-Cal stars Darrall Imhoff (1959 & ‘60), Bill McClintock (1960 & ‘61), Russ Critchfield (1967 & ‘68), Kevin Johnson (1986 & ‘87), Brian Hendrick (1990, ‘91 & ‘92), Lamond Murray (1993 & ‘94), Jason Kidd (1993 & ‘94), Sean Lampley (2000 and ‘01) and Leon Powe (2004 & ‘06).
Hendrick is the Bears’ only three-time all-conference selection.
After the jump JO looks at O and D-lines, baseball upsets no. 17 Arkansas in the final game of their three-game series and softball goes a perfect 5-0 in an otherwise tough weekend for Cal sports.
Cal Football
- Best was awarded the CFPA 2009 Elite Running Back Trophy during Saturday's Cal-Stanford women's game.
- JO previews the D-line. The biggest question is who will replace Tyson Alualu. Owusu showed promise in his first game, but was quiet after that; Guyton performed well as a backup, but isn't a lock for the starting role; and the 6'6", 300lb RS freshman DeAndre Coleman should be in the mix.
- JO previews the O-line. The competition for guard spots should be intense and will lay the foundation for the rest of the hierarchy of O-line positions.
- Cal baseball gave up 5 runs in the eight inning as it lost its first match to no. 17 Arkansas 7-3. Down 9-1 early on, Cal battled back, but couldn't prevail and lost its second match to Arkansas 9-5. Cal put together a complete game in its 6-0 triumph over Arkansas in the final game of the series.
- No. 4 men's swimming and diving fell to no. 3 Stanford 897-829.5. Nathan Adrian repeated as the conference champion in the 100 and 400.
- No 15/13 softball closed out a perfect 5-0 weekend with a 5-1 win over UNLV.
- No 5 women's tennis lost 5-2 to no. 14 Stanford.
- No. 4 women's water polo lost 7-4 to no. 1 USC.
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Theo and Boykin made 2nd team.
Jorge all defensive team
Christopher honorable mention for defense.
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Question:
Am I being a homer for thinking that Jamal and Theo should both be on the 1st team, and that they are both better than Roll and Wise? Hell, they’re the 1st and 3rd most offensively efficient players in the Pac-10 according to Kenpom.
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Probably
Theo and Jamal were gifted with being part of a strong senior unit, whereas Wise and Roll did pretty much all they could with inferior teams. Second-team is probably where they should be; you can argue it both ways though.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Mar 8, 2010 8:42 PM PST up reply actions
The more I think about it, the more interesting the debate sounds in my mind.
How do you account for the teammates around you? Roll managed to be pretty efficient despite the fact that he was playing with Malcolm Lee at point and Dragovic at forward (yuck).
But Theo and Jamal, as I mentioned above, were two of the most efficient offensive players in the conference. Because Cal had four excellent offensive players on the court most of the time, they rarely put up bad shots and played very intelligently. The numbers tell me that Theo and Jamal are better than a number of players on the 1st team, but those guys had to shoulder a bigger load on worse teams.
The decisions you make are probably an indication of how you evaluate players in general. Or, in my case, how big a homer you are!
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The coaches do pick these, so I’m guessing a lot of this has to do with how much coaches hate going against certain players. While Theo and Boykin might be fundamentally sound they don’t really have a ‘scare quotient’ on them. Roll has killed a few teams this year, including us.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Mar 8, 2010 9:02 PM PST up reply actions
Am I being a homer for thinking that Jamal and Theo should both be on the 1st team, and that they are both better than Roll and Wise?
I don’t know about Jamal and Theo making first team. I could see it for Jamal maybe. But the Roll choice does puzzle me. Am I the only one thinking that Roll must have compromising photographs of a majority of Pac-10 coaches? Why else would he be on the first team All Pac-10 team? Unless the category is 1st team All Pac-10 lucky ass shots to win games you shouldn’t win.
I am a Vereenian.
Interesting note from Farudo
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– How much can the Bears help their NCAA seeding at the Pac-10s? If they win it all, I’m guessing they climb to No. 5. Provided they win a game or two, they can be a No. 6 or 7. If they lose to the Oregon-WSU winner, figure they’re back in that dreaded 8-9 game with a No. 1 seed looming in the next round.
I don’t really see Cal climbing all the way to a 5 (even 6 would be wonderful), but if they did, how awesome would that be! That might even put them in San Jose.
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I would love to get a 6, honestly. Gives us a fighting chance at moving on in the tournament. Lunardi has us in his latest bracket, so I don’t think a 6 is out of the realm of possibility.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Whether we’re a 6, 7, or 8, our “fighting chance” really depends on who the 3. 2, or 1 seed is in that region. If we’re a 7 or 6 and an Ohio State or Michigan State is the 2 or 3, I’m not too optimistic about our chances. OTOH, if, say Kansas State or New Mexico is the 3 seed to our 6, or if we’re a 7 seed in a bracket where KSU is the 2 seed, I give us more of a fighting chance.
I am a Vereenian.
I dunno, 6 seems significantly better than 7 or 8. Our current projected second round (as an 8) is Kentucky – eep. But I’d give us a fighting chance with our full team against several 3 seeds (NM, Nova, etc). 5 seems unreachable unless we smoke every team in the tourny by 20 to impress people. Also, the 3 seeds might not make it to the second round, whereas the 1 and 2 always do
Actually, if we were a 5, and I didn’t love me some Bears. I would probably choose us as the classic upset special 12-5 game.(where 12 seeds are almost 40% wins in past decade or so)
We’ve been that upset before (losing to Wisconsin-Green Bay in 1994). We also narrowly averted an upset to Princeton in 1997 in a 5/12 game.
We also played a close game as a 6 seed, needing a late Jason Kidd basket to beat 11 seed LSU in 1993. (Of course, we then improbably upset 3 seed Duke in the 2nd round!)
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