Posts Tagged ‘cal

To give you an idea of how wide open the Pac-10 tournament is this year, you can take the bottom feeders (WSU, Oregon, Stanford, OSU) out of the picture and make a convincing argument that any of the remaining five (USC is ineligible) teams could walk away with the trophy and the conference’s automatic berth in [...]

Washington had a golden opportunity to accomplish several things Thursday night – shake their road bug-a-boo, move into a first-place tie in the Pac-10 and grab the tiebreaker from Cal, and try to impress the NCAA tournament committee thanks to a rare, ESPN-televised, East-Coast friendly start time. Unfortunately, the Huskies failed on all fronts, and [...]

Last week was a topsy-turvy one in the Pac-10, what with Washington pulling off the stunning (although not so much to some) upset of USC, Oregon knocking off Utah, Oregon State failing to clip Cincinnati and Washington State actually beating somebody. It was also a seismic week for my picks, which went haywire. Now that [...]


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