Okay CGBer's - Final call for group tickets to CGB Night to watch Cal Men's BBall against Stanfurd. 30 tickets have been spoken for, but only 24 have been purchased. (If you said you were buying tix, get 'er done - You know who you are!). Cal ATO was nice enough to give us an additional 15 tickets seated with the original group.

***Most importantly, we need to figure out whether we're going to try to meet-up prior to the game. Our original plan (Raleigh's) went up in smoke. Literally. No rooms are available in Haas and the Alumni House is already in use.

Plan B: Meet at Bear's Lair. (Might be crowded?)

Plan C: Attend the Cal Alumni Association Hoops Party - ($25 general, $20 CAA members, $10 young alumni)

When/Where: 3pm at the Alumni House

• Chalk Talk from Travis DeCuire, Assistant Coach of Men's Basketball
• Special guest speaker, Rich Feller, Head Coach of Women's Volleyball
• Special guest speaker, Teresa Kuehn-Gould, Deputy Director of Athletics and Senior Woman Administrator
• Delicious food from Top Dog
• One drink ticket for a non-alcoholic beverage, can be upgraded for an alcoholic drink
• No-host bar for alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages at each party
• Performance from the Cal Straw Hat Band and Cal Dance Team

Plan D: ??? Please post below in comments if you have other ideas.

Tickets will be $24 each (as opposed to the standard $35) plus a small fee for either printing at home, will-call, or shipping.

*Please note that the game has been moved from Sat, 1/28/12 to Sun, 1/29/12 at 5:30pm. (probably for tv)

Our online ticket window is now live. For CGBer's who have already rsvp'd in the comments, I should have already emailed you directly with the link, login ID, and password for ticket purchase.

More details after the jump:

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This is the third of a three part series with Samsung Enhanced Content in which we've sold out to the man which will break down the relationship between technology and sports (the first part broke down Shane Vereen's first touchdown against Arizona State, and the second broke down the Pac-10 Odds). Today read on as a I mount a startling defense of the BCS computers and why we should bow down to our electronic overlords.

First off, this is not a defense of the BCS in general. I like to think that I, like most other rational college football fans, would prefer a playoff. But if we're stuck with the current system of having #1 play #2 for the national championship, it makes far more sense to let the computers handle the job than let pollsters make that determination.

Reason #1: Mack Brown

Good old Uncle Stew:

Personally, I think Cal is the better team -- both have excellent running backs and similar defenses, but the Bears have a more balanced offense. In their respective biggest games of the season, Cal was much more competitive with No. 1 USC than Texas was with No. 2 Oklahoma. However, I have no problem with anyone who looks at both teams' bodies of work -- considering the Longhorns boast the tougher schedule -- and say Texas is more deserving. That's his or her prerogative. (And if it's a her, hopefully it's Britney Spears wearing what she does in her My Prerogative video). The voters are certainly under no responsibility to uphold the Pac-10 Rose Bowl tradition.

What I do have a problem with is voters who seemed to think Cal was the better team for a month or more, then suddenly using a 26-16 victory over Southern Miss as an excuse to change their mind. So Southern Miss isn't Southern California, but they're not Southern Methodist, either. Any road game, nevertheless one 2,500 miles away, is tough, and the Bears got the "W." It was no more an indictment of the Bears than Texas' near-loss at Kansas. Voters had 10 weeks to come to the conclusion that Texas is a better team than Cal. You're telling me it finally dawned on some voters a week after the 'Horns' season ended?

Computers aren't susceptible to whiny coaches who inexplicably forgot how to coach this year.

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(Note: Washington State preview material will be coming tomorrow morning. Sorry for the delay.)

This is the second of a three part series with Samsung Enhanced Content which will break down the relationship between technology and sports (the first part broke down Shane Vereen's first touchdown against Arizona State)  Today we looked at advanced metrics (Vegas lines, heh) based on technologies available to us (online sportsbooks, yippee!) and use that to calculate win probabilities and likelihoods of who will win the 2010 Pac-10 Conference (see last week's projections!). Technology is amazing at making us all degenerates!

With Washington getting totalled by the Furd last weekend and Oregon State, this leaves only four legitimate contenders for the crown (and it's the same four from last year!):

Oregon, Oregon State, Furd, and Arizona.

Oregon and Oregon State remain in control of their own destinies. Furd and Arizona have losses to Oregon and Oregon State respectively, so they need some help...but they also matchup this weekend in a critical tilt in Palo Alto, with the loser likely relegated to dark horse status in the Pac-10 title race.

So here are the odds we and Berkelium97 calculated that would give these teams the Pac-10 title.

Odds Oregon wins the Pac-10 (most likely scenarios include winning out or winning three of four except OSU): 71.50%
Odds Oregon wins out and goes to the National Championship game:  50.28%
Odds Oregon State wins out (including beating Oregon) and heads to Pasadena: 3.843%
Odds Furd wins out and Oregon loses two: 4.354% (whew, that's a relief)
Odds Arizona wins out and Oregon State loses one: 0.3157% (yikes. Sorry Wildcats fans.)

Ducks fans should be quaking in their boots. I have no idea where the other 18% would go and would end up winning those scenarios, but let's just say that this approximation indicates Oregon is at least eight times more likely to win the Pac-10 than all the remaining contenders COMBINED.

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This is the first of a three part series with Samsung Enhanced Content which will break down the relationship between technology and sports. Today we break down a pretty good play from the Cal-Arizona State game.

Back in the old days when we all had CRT TVs and our eyes went bad and started bleeding, I would never have been able to understand what went down in a football play. Instead of enjoying the process, I was always interested in the outcome of the play. Things were moving too fast and it was impossible to figure out what happened at the heart of the game. Running plays were impossible to diagnose because you had to keep track of an offensive line in motion. And it's still not that easy to figure out what's going on in a passing play unless you're in the stadium and get the wide view of what's going on in the game.

Nevertheless, things have improved monumentally today. Thanks to the Internet age, where games can be TiVo'ed, rewatched, recorded, captured, and broken down by any Joe Six-Pack out there like myself, we can gain a more cerebral and intelligent understanding of the game without resorting to cliches and misconceptions. One such example is how it helped me understand the beautiful specimen of football excellence that is Shane Vereen.

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