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Basketball: How about Bears vs. Gaels?
By Jeff Faraudo
Saturday, March 13th, 2010 at 9:06 am in Basketball, Gameday, NCAA Tournament.
This morning’s ESPN.com bracketology poses a intriguing possibility: Cal vs. Saint Mary’s in a first-round NCAA Tournament game at Buffalo.
Joe Lunardi still is projecting Cal as a No. 7 after its win over UCLA, and he has the Gaels as a No. 10.
Now, this is just one smart man’s educated guess, and things can (almost certainly will) change today after Cal’s Pac-10 title showdown with Washington.
But who wouldn’t like to see this matchup of the best teams in the Bay Area?
FYI, Cal and SMC have not played since the 2004-05 season, when the Gaels won 61-52 at Berkeley. The Bears own a 61-16 all-time lead in a series that dates back to the 1914-15 campaign.
Here’s Lunardi’s latest projected bracket.
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March 13th, 2010 at 9:38 am
Gaels vs. Bears would be great…flying 2,500 miles for the match-up not so much.
March 13th, 2010 at 9:58 am
I don’t like the idea of facing Samhan, but it would be a fun matchup for the fans.
March 13th, 2010 at 10:25 am
lundardi is a clown. all his predictions are based on “if the season ended today…” it doesn’t. a real man would make a prediction about the outcome of todays game, in advance, and put his balls on the line with a bold prediction. anybody can run the numbers.
March 13th, 2010 at 11:30 am
No
Bay Area deserves a chance to see if both teams can advance.
That would be a terrible set up by the NCAA and I think unfair.
Cal UW today shapes up to be a very good game.
Looking forward to it.
March 14th, 2010 at 8:17 am
disaster matchup that would be designed to reduce west coast schools.
since there isn’t attention to teams playing in their geographical areas when lower than 1-4 seeds we should not play St marys in the west bracket.