Comments on: Basketball: Cal climbs to No. 21 in RPI

By: rollonubears

rollonubears — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:33:29 +0000

indeed! btw, at rpi 21, aren’t we a 6 seed already?

By: Mitchie V

Mitchie V — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:02:42 +0000

My thickly veiled original point is that Cal could use a top 25 ranking and more general acceptance as a good team to help get that 5/6 seed.

Pac 10 Champs! “The crown jewel.”

By: covinared

covinared — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:51:00 +0000

Who cares? We are the PAC 10 champs!

By: rollonubears

rollonubears — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:29:19 +0000

we lost to ucla an oregon state because we lacked heart on those games, and the will to play D, from start to finish. it appears that has changed. if we trounce stanfurd, as we should, people will talk about it. if we keep playing like we did on saturday, we’ll be all over espn come 2 sundays from now. the question that remains, though, is have we gotten over that tendency to give up, once another team has a little run. az state missed all kinds of shots. some of that was pressure. some of it was just our good luck. if a few more of their 3s had fallen, would we have thrown in the towel like we usually do? if we can prove we’re over that childish behavior, we’re a legit sweet16 contender. i still don’t know, though.

By: jabes

jabes — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:18:42 +0000

No one is looking at our OOC schedule and saying “why not?”. They are looking at the Pac-10 and saying “why?”.

Losing to top-10 teams on the road won’t keep you out, but it won’t get you in either.

By: KoreAmBear

KoreAmBear — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:45:48 +0000

We were up 5 at NM with like 8 minutes to play but I felt like got fatigued (no Theo, MSF and PC both had the flu, altitude). No doubt with Theo and healthy MSF/PC we win that game. That said, let’s win out and keep improving our seed. It’s like hearts though, we need to get better or worse than 8/9 (the seeds of death). But I don’t think we want to lose to get to 10-12 seeds — so let’s win out.

By: Rocko

Rocko — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:40:52 +0000

We lost to the #1,#2,#7, & #10 ranked teams. None of those four losses were at home. KU & NM were on their home courts where they hardly ever lose. SYU was in their home state at MSG where they had the majority of fans. Yes, everybody has injured players, but we had ours when those games were played. I think we could have beaten OSU & NM if we had all our players healthy and would have won those two games if played at HAAS. What you seem to forget is lots of other teams have lost to those four teams as well, check their W-L records. There are some games that we played in the PAC-10 that we had no business losing and those are the games that will hurt us the most. However if we win the PAC-10 tourney that should help with our seating.

By: Mitchie V

Mitchie V — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:29:50 +0000

rollonubears said:
“if we win out, we’ll probably crack the top 25. who cares though?”

Well, in my secret fantasy the Bears go into the Big Dance and win two games so we can say Nyah-Nyah! to the “experts.”

But realistically hope they go in as a 5 or 6 seed. Joe Lunardi has us as a 9 seed today. That means we have to beat an 8 to play a #1. Yuk.

By: rollonubears

rollonubears — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:21:05 +0000

if we win out, we’ll probably crack the top 25. who cares though?

By: The Wisdom Cow

The Wisdom Cow — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:33:09 +0000

You can probably bet those 2 coaches votes were from a Pac 10 coach and a coach we played already this season to help their resume.