Cal Men's Basketball Runs Over USC, 75-49
by Kodiak on Feb 9, 2012 9:15 PM PST
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PrintIt always feels good to beat USC.
For the first time in years, it's a season sweep over the Trojans.
Glorious! Victorious!
Revel now and get ready to beat up on the Bruins.
Go Bears!
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UW D is terri-bad right now. And their body language indicates they just wanna go back to the hotel and play X-box.
Tosh’s influence is already spreading!
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by CalBear81 on Feb 9, 2012 9:22 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
LOL awesome. rec’d!
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 9:30 PM PST up reply actions
PALMS OF VICTORY!
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only 4
but 7 boards and 4 assists
If Cal can win the regular season title, that would be a huge boost to Jorge’s POY candidacy.
by LEastCoastBears on Feb 9, 2012 9:23 PM PST up reply actions
The leaders
Crabbe 19
Kamp 18
Kravish 6 points, 18 rebounds
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Marques Johnson just said
3 players in lead for POY are
UW’s Ross
Cal’s Jorge
OSU’s Cunningham.
He said Jorge is in the lead spot for the award, but said that Cunningham is leading the conference in both pts and steals and the last 5 guys to pull off that double have won the award. I think Jorge getting only 4 hurts a fair amount.
OT: No more undefeated teams in Division I basketball
Murray State (23-1) lost to Tennessee State tonight, 72-68
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Is that where Bozeman is?
no bear, no care
by EchoOfSilence on Feb 9, 2012 10:16 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
I always get them confused
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by EchoOfSilence on Feb 9, 2012 11:21 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Cal shot 55.7%
Kamp was 9 of 11 from the floor; Crabbe was 8 of 12
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Yahoo had Kamp at 10/12
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 9:31 PM PST up reply actions
Kamp and Crabbe were all over the place making shots!!!
"Remember the Maine! TO HELL WITH STANFORD!"
by CruzinBears on Feb 9, 2012 10:17 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
Yo
I want to hear from the Cal fans that were there, what was like? Give us the report.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
I’m sure fiatlux will give one tomorrow :)
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 9:31 PM PST up reply actions
(with photos no doubt)
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 9:31 PM PST up reply actions
The game was really fun. The four CGBers made a good amount of noise for the Cal fans in attendance. $C has pitiful ticket sales so we moved down to the $c student section for the second half, by the Cal bench. Got a couple good Cal cheers going throughout the game, which shocked the $c students (as we were making more noise than all 20 of them)
"Remember the Maine! TO HELL WITH STANFORD!"
by CruzinBears on Feb 9, 2012 10:21 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions 3 recs
muahahahaha awesome
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 10:22 PM PST up reply actions
$C students were not happy to have us in their section. I think the cal bench appreciated it though!
"Remember the Maine! TO HELL WITH STANFORD!"
by CruzinBears on Feb 9, 2012 10:28 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
That one hot volleyball player laughed when you yelled out “She ate pizza!”
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Yeah, they weren’t happy they were being upstaged at all.
Anyway, good meeting you, man!
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by EchoOfSilence on Feb 9, 2012 10:23 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Yes!
"Remember the Maine! TO HELL WITH STANFORD!"
by CruzinBears on Feb 9, 2012 10:28 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
Great meeting you and the others as well! We’ll have to do the LA Cal fan thing more often haha.
"Remember the Maine! TO HELL WITH STANFORD!"
by CruzinBears on Feb 9, 2012 10:27 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
It was awesome! The Trojan fans were the tamest i’ve seen…
Anyway, we were the loudest there by far. It’s great to yell things and KNOW the players heard you!!
And of course, Ken yelled out the obligatory GIMME A C to nearby fans. T’was fun!
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by EchoOfSilence on Feb 9, 2012 10:18 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
i was sitting in the section next to guys. i didn’t notice you guys until i saw fiat do the c and taking a picture of the guy reading reading the newspaper.
by j.lee on Feb 9, 2012 11:01 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
Were you in the group where that guy said “Seriously, does your team even practice?”
Also, we sat in the second deck for the first half (Echo picked out some excellent Tier 3 tickets, top of the line!)
"Remember the Maine! TO HELL WITH STANFORD!"
HEY now, I expected better seats for $30!!
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by EchoOfSilence on Feb 9, 2012 11:12 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah we have had this discussion
"Remember the Maine! TO HELL WITH STANFORD!"
really…look for ticket brokers online…not official/stubhub…
and they always have tickets they’re looking to offload for games like this…
We went to the ticket window and were given three options, Echo/we chose Tier 3 as the best seats were only $30, unfortunately $C’s ticketing program is about as strong as their non-film related degrees, so we ended up in the upper deck for a high price. We figured at least we were helping that struggling $C endowment program, ya know?
"Remember the Maine! TO HELL WITH STANFORD!"
Lol we paid 30 for 200-level seating.
no bear, no care
by EchoOfSilence on Feb 9, 2012 11:23 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Thanks to Echo, we basically donated an extra $80 to USC…. We could have sat where we sat for $10. He will not live that down with me…
Hey, at least you won’t forget me! HAHA
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by EchoOfSilence on Feb 10, 2012 8:07 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
Where u the guy that was yelling out “Do you guys even PRACTICE??”
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by EchoOfSilence on Feb 9, 2012 11:10 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
got onto the court after the game
(the guy that runs the galen center events is formerly of the ucpd)
For the first quarter of the game there were literally 15-20 non-band $C fans in the student section, and maybe only 4-5 non rally com.
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Good
I like first place
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They’re both 6-5 so I don’t know if it makes a difference. I’m rooting for quadruple OT.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 9:44 PM PST up reply actions
Why only 4 OTs?
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There was an epic 6 OT Syracuse-UConn game… I don’t want anything too memorable associated with ’furd, I guess.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 9:47 PM PST up reply actions
I don’t mind it being memorable as long as they lose.
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Which “they”? We play UCLA on Saturday.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 9:51 PM PST up reply actions
Why can’t it be both? ;-)
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That’s not classy.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 9:47 PM PST up reply actions
Dunno about standings-wise, but I’m rooting for UCLA only because teams tend to come out harder after a loss, especially on Saturday after a Thursday loss. Not that they’re going to overlook Cal, but they won’t have the threat of getting swept at “home” hanging over them.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Good to be in First
But honestly, the team I am most afraid of at this point is Arizona. They have a favorable schedule to finish the year and they have the tiebreaker with us…
3 teams will tie for first
UW, Cal, and Arizona all play each other only once I believe.
So, the 3 top teams all end up having the advantage of not playing each other but once.
Coincidence?
It very well may come down to the tourney, and that doesn’t favor Cal b/c of the night after night format. Cal needs to win out at this point. Going to be a tall order.
Arizona and UW play each other again in Seattle
by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 9, 2012 9:46 PM PST up reply actions
DID SOMEONE SAY GUARENTEE?!
DOOOOOOOOOOOM
by The Red Mamba on Feb 9, 2012 9:49 PM PST up reply actions
It’s short for the only player to be Pac-10 freshman of the year and player of the year at the same time.
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The man is permanently stoned, drifting quite far from shore.
Anything he might now imbibe just might bring him back a league or so.
We need a chant for Saturday. When was the last time Cal had a chance to go 4-0 against the LA schools?
SWEEP LA! SWEEP LA! SWEEP LA!
it would also be the first sweep of UCLA since the 93-94 season
by LEastCoastBears on Feb 9, 2012 9:50 PM PST up reply actions
yeah, thus the 4-0?
I thought that’s what was asked
by LEastCoastBears on Feb 9, 2012 9:52 PM PST up reply actions
I thought he was asking when was the last time we had a CHANCE to do it. That answer might not be 1958.
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Er, 1958-59
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Uh, we had a chance to do it last in 2011. Before that, we had a chance in 2010, then again in 2009 and 2008. In 2007, we also had a chance and also in 2006 and 2005. Don’t forget about 2004, 2003, 2002, as we were playing 4 games against those 2 schools in those years as well. Then again, there was 2001 all the way down to 1991, and before that back to 1981 and back another 10 years to 1971…. ah, another 10 years to 1961, and 1960 and 1959, too!
I think a chance to sweep meaning we went into the final game 3-0.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 10:20 PM PST up reply actions
chance to sweep
apparently in 1994 (when we last swept the two UCLA games) we had the chance to do it, but of course lost the last game (@U$C)
by LEastCoastBears on Feb 9, 2012 10:02 PM PST up reply actions
Didn’t we so something special that year too?
by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 9, 2012 9:54 PM PST up reply actions
We beat Jerry West
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67-44 Oregon, 6:50 left
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They just showed a graphic on the UW-UO broadcast
The Pac-12 tourney bracket “if the season ended today.” It had UW as the 1 seed and Cal as the 2 seed.
In just a few minutes, when UO finishes off this win over UW, those seeds are reversed, bitch!
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Turned from Washington v. Oregon..
To the Hitler vs. Stalin…errr…Stanford vs. UCLA game…
Lawrence Ross
I'm still watching UW/UO
UW looks quite disinterested.
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hah
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 10:03 PM PST up reply actions
I really think we should win out
I realize i’m angering the wrath of juju, but the rest of our games are not too bad…
I'm liking our chances in LA better than CO at the end,
if only because it seems so like us to die at the end. I’m used to it.
I’m quite worried about that one.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 10:09 PM PST up reply actions
at UCLA, at Colorado, and at Furd is a lot to ask
if we’re 75% favs in each (which I doubt), that’s still only 42% to sweep…plus then we’ve got to get all the rest, which reduces the chances even further
Indeed. I’d be happy with 5-1, and I do think that’d be enough to get us a piece of the conference title.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
I’ll be happy with a W on Saturday. The margin for error is so thin right now, especially with a shallow team with a questionable bench…getting any road win against a competent team is a major victory.
Agreed. To ask a team with a grand total of 2 road wins before tonight to come out and pull of a road sweep? Seems like a lot.
Oh, and you want to do it again in the mountain states in 2 weeks? Not even worth thinking about right now.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
I mean, if you take a step back, since the heartbreak versus Zona, we haven’t done a damn thing. Saturday is an actual test, and I pray to God we pass.
We haven’t had a CHANCE to do a damn thing. We did blow out two terrible teams and give our starters a decent amount of rest, though, which isn’t bad.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 10:27 PM PST up reply actions
Yea true
I’m most worried about @colorado due to altitude and all that stuff. But we might have to win out if we wanna win the conference. In Monty I trust!
by ucsdgoldenbear on Feb 9, 2012 10:02 PM PST up reply actions
Good, good
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The University of Oregon is definitely our friend right now . . .
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 10:12 PM PST up reply actions
…and that’s an argument against? :)
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 10:21 PM PST up reply actions
You mean, like, “if that’s your sober reality, maybe you should try getting high and see if it gets better.”
Sky’s the limit!
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 10:27 PM PST up reply actions
Remind me to never go to concord!
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UW is gonna need a bigger boat.
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by alpha1906 on Feb 9, 2012 10:01 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
at least they kept it close and made UCLA work to hang on
by LEastCoastBears on Feb 9, 2012 10:07 PM PST up reply actions
STANDINGS
Cal 9-3 19-6
UW 9-3 16-8
Ore 8-4 17-7
Ariz 8-4 17-8
Colo 8-4 16-8
Furd 6-5 16-7
UCla 6-5 13-10
WSU 5-7
OSU 5-7
ASU 4-8
Utah 2-10
USC 1-11
Best part of the Oregon/UDub game:
Oregon student section chanting JUST LIKE FOOT-BALL clap-clap-clapclapclap
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It was fantastic."
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Tonight turned out exactly the way we wanted
…as opposes to last Thursday which was the exact opposite.
by Glanko on Feb 9, 2012 10:18 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Watershed in what way?
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 10:23 PM PST up reply actions
In the sense that if the ball bounces a little differently and we pull it out, we come out of the toughest stretch of the season smelling like a rose, are in the driver’s seat for the conference, a significant favorite to dance, and boot Zona out of the title race.
Instead, we lose a coinflip and now we’re on a high wire.
I also think there’s a positive psychological effect from winning games like that.
It’s still very possible to achieve our goals, but it would be a lot more comfortable if we had pulled that out.
Well, the Huskies losing tonight kind of evens it out IMO. We’re back in the driver’s seat, inasmuch as we are in 1st place and control our own destiny.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 10:36 PM PST up reply actions
Doesn’t change the RPI hit (16 spots, I believe), the loss of the opportunity to get the closest thing to a resume win left on our schedule (Zona has the 2nd highest RPI in the Pac-12), and now Zona is coming up like a freight train behind us, with five of six very good matchups for them down the stretch.
I’m not saying it wouldn’t have been nice to beat them, and obviously with that loss it makes things harder. But if we take care of business from here on out, we should be okay.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 9, 2012 10:44 PM PST up reply actions
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Not feeling too good about @UCLA
but I’m feeling good about the rest of our games.
I think @UCLA is a bigger challenge than is @Colo at this point in the season.
5-1 should win the Pac-12 outright (tough but doable). I think Arizona has one more loss on their schedule, and Washington has two.
HUGE disappointment if we do any worse than 4-2
Cal
(we won the Pac-12 with a 13-5 record in 2010)
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by Thoroughbred on Feb 9, 2012 11:11 PM PST up reply actions
Last Note
Monty’s conference records (in order):
11-7, 13-5, 10-8, 9-3
Cal
by Thoroughbred on Feb 9, 2012 11:14 PM PST up reply actions
Right now if I had to bet, I’d probably bet 4-2, based on what we’ve done on the road this year. WSU and OSU are not good teams. However, if we can pull a W Saturday (and depending on how it goes), I might start feeling good about 4-1 the rest of the way.
Really, really wanna get this road sweep.
Fuck it
We’re going 6-0 beech-ezzz. Fuck you JuJu, see y’all in the NCAAs!!!!
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| Fresno St. | Sat 09/03 | W 36 - 21 |
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Sat 09/10 | W 36 - 33 |
| Presbyterian | Sat 09/17 | W 63 - 12 |
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Washington
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Sat 09/24 | L 23 - 31 |
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Thu 10/06 | L 15 - 43 |
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USC
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Thu 10/13 | L 9 - 30 |
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Utah
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Sat 10/22 | W 34 - 10 |
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Sat 10/29 | L 14 - 31 |
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Washington St.
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Sat 11/05 | W 30 - 7 |
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Oregon St.
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Sat 11/12 | W 23 - 6 |
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Sat 11/19 | L 28 - 31 |
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Fri 11/25 | W 47 - 38 |
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