Comments on: Basketball: Bears top OSU, clinch winning season

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 05:42:49 +0000

Cunningham is soft…was in high school and still is. He flopped when Kamped boxed him out, and When Smith came up behind him. If you can’t tell the difference, then keep enjoying the WWE.

Enjoyed this weeks games! Hoping we stick it to the FUrd

By: Uh Huh!

Uh Huh! — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:54:19 +0000

Jeff:

Do you know what the permutations are for Cal finishing either 4th or 5th?
So long as UCLA can win at WSU, it looks like Arizona and UCLA are going to finish 1-2, which would leave UW in 3rd. If we take 6th, that would match us up against UW, which would be tough! But if we can grab 5th, then we’d get a matchup against either WSU or or USC. Hmmm.

Arizona 12-4
UCLA 12-4, plays @ the Wash schools
Washington 10-6
USC 9-7, plays @ the Wash schools
California 9-8, hosts Stanford
Washington State 8-8
Oregon 7-9, plays @ the Ariz schools
Stanford 7-10
Oregon State 5-11, plays @ the Ariz schools
Arizona State 2-14

I’m going to say AZ wins both to claim 1st.
UCLA beats WSU to get 13 wins.
UW beats both UCLA and USC to end with 12 wins.
Cal beats Stanford for 10 wins.
WSU and USC is a toss up and the winner gets to play Cal in the 4-5 spot, while the loser has to match up against UW in the 6-3 spot.
Not sure if Cal would take 4th or 5th, depending on tie breakers, which I haven’t figured out, but now realize it doesn’t matter.

Okay…. thanks…

And, oh, do you know where they sell any edible hats?

By: K1W

K1W — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:23:05 +0000

@ Milo

Don’t forget those non-freshman new guys, Justin Cobbs and De’End Parker. And I want to see 6-10 Rob Thurman do some of those “best on team” dunks in a real game. The Bears may even be called “deep” next year.

This year’s Bears are finishing strong. I think they might get to 20 (W’s).

By: milo

milo — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:57:09 +0000

Over .500 in conference and a winning season is a success in my book given 4/5th of the starting line-up left.

Next season looks bright with Gut, Kamp, Crabbe, Solomon, Smith and the other frosh. Lets hope the bench develops and there’s depth. NIT is extra and looks like a good possibility.

Go Bears!

By: Uh Huh!

Uh Huh! — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:59:05 +0000

NIT is a GREAT result!
Oh yeah!

By: woodside cal

woodside cal — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:57:16 +0000

another great game,montgomery great second half coach. (disagree with him not fouling when up by three with 10 secs. left…cost us one game and almost another…. too bad we lost those close games and when crabbe was out. an invite might have been in order

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:34:02 +0000

Jeff@12 – absolutely agree 100%. Straight up good (and appropriately funny) reporting.

I don’t know X’s and O’s in b-ball like I claim to know in football, but I give huge credit to Monty. After winning the title last year and losing all of the starting scoring, then losing one starter because he decided to bail, and then losing another starter for 3 straight Pac-10 games, and playing the likes of SDSU, Kansas, Notre Dame, and Temple, for the team to finish at least above .500 says a lot about coaching. We didn’t always pull out close wins earlier in the season, but the team is playing great down the stretch, and we may even catch a break in the Pac-10 tournament.

NIT is a very good result this year.

By: jeh

jeh — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:16:54 +0000

I just want to thank Jeff F. for the finest and most intelligent coverage of the Bears in the Bay Area once again this year.

By: Jeff Faraudo

Jeff Faraudo — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:02:13 +0000

Yes, Cal would win a straight tiebreaker with Oregon because the Bears swept the head-to-head series. But it’s unlikely Cal and Ore will end up tied because the Ducks must play at Arizona. Breaking a tie with either USC or WSU would require going beyond the head-to-head (where they split in both cases) to how they did against the teams above them in the standings, starting at the top. Since we don’t know yet who will finish first, second or third, that would be complicated guesswork.

By: Bears

Bears — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:20:38 +0000

The Cal season is about one game now. Play and beat stanford.
We got slapped by them to start Pac 10 play at their place. It’s time for the team to get a big win over our rival and send MSF out right on senior day.
Big game coming up 4pm saturday at Haas!
Go Bears!