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Cal Women's Basketball vs. Virginia: Wahine Showdown Gamethread
When: 5:00 pm PTTV: NoneRadio Stream: Cal Bears All Access (Free!) Live Stats For multiple reasons, this is an important game for the Bears. Logically, this is Cal's 3rd game against solid, potentially tournament quality opposition. The Bears have looked like a tournament team against Rutgers and...
Women's Basketball Schedule Features Joanne Boyle, Ohio St., Rutgers, Texas
Lindsay Gottlieb and the Cal women's basketball team will face a non-conference schedule both intriguing and challenging this year, with exciting matchups at home, on the road, and in neutral locations. True, there was a coaching change and a high-impact transfer over the off-season, but Cal has...
What Will Lindsay Gottlieb Bring To Berkeley?
The first year I truly started following Cal basketball closely was the 2008-09 sweet 16 team, which also happened to be the first year after Lindsay Gottlieb left to coach at UC Santa Barbara. I knew she had left, and that she was popular amongst the team and its fans, but I didn’t realize...
Cal Women's Basketball Coaching Search: Final Three Candidates?
After a couple weeks with nary a credible news source or meaningful rumor, yesterday finally saw two interesting pieces of news related to Cal's women's basketball coaching search. Some have speculated that Cal would be directly competing with UCLA for coaching candidates, but the announcement...
Joanne Boyle To Virginia: Initial Reactions
It's still technically possible that this post is premature. I certainly hope it turns out to be. But if the saying about smoke and fire is true, we're all choking on lots and lots of smoke. There are reports from official Virginia area news sources, SBN blogs, and finally a reliable Cal source...
Women's Week In Review: Bitter End To Disappointing Season
The 2010-11 Cal women's basketball season was an exercise in unrealized hope and optimism. Fairly or not, back-to-back top 15 recruiting classes and a dominating WNIT championship run created certain expectations. It became clear early in the year that those expectations were unrealistic. And...
Women's Week In Review: Positive Signs For 2012?
Cal's run to the semi-finals couldn't help but make me wonder what might have been. The team that rolled through the Galen Center last week would never have lost 5 total games to Washington, Washington St. and Oregon that collectively cost the Bears 3rd place in the Pac-10 and a potential NCAA...
Women's Week In Review: Mooch Saves Senior Day
Sage Indendi hit a three, and again the Bears faced an early double digit deficit after sleep-walking through the first ten minutes of the game. Unless things changed quickly it was clear Cal was facing a regular season ending eight game losing streak. Cal was missing layups, runners, free...
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