Arizona, UCLA, Colorado, Oregon and our Bears are dancing. But how do you explain high seeds for Arizona and UCLA compared to their peers?

Should the Bears be able to make it to the Final Four this year, this would be their path to Atlanta.

Could this be a best case scenario for the Golden Bears????

Breathe a sigh of relief, Cal fans: The Bears are in the NCAA tournament, and they don't even have to take a trip to Dayton!

March Madness kicks off in earnest with the selection of the 68-team field for the 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Is Cal in or out of the Big Dance? Find out and follow the chatter on CGB's Selection Show Open Thread

Cal lost consecutive games to Stanford and Utah. Should the Bears be worried about missing the tournament? The consensus says "no."

Will the California Golden Bears dance? If Cal basketball does get in, will they get a good seed? Will they be forced into the play-in game? Or is there a nightmare NIT bid on the horizon?

Pac-12 regular season champion UCLA tries to win the conference tournament title against Oregon. Are you watching? Follow and comment on the action on CGB's open thread

Cal basketball had about as disastrous a trip to Las Vegas as you can imagine. What did the loss to the Utah Utes expose about the Golden Bears?

Cal was unceremoniously bounced by the Utah Utes in the quarterfinals of the Pac-12 tournament Thursday night. Can the Utes keep going toward an improbable NCAA tourney bid? Utah-Oregon and UCLA-Arizona are your Pac-12 tourney semifinalists.