The CBS online streaming package of March Madness has been the easiest four dollars I’ve spent this year. With high-definition coverage of all 67 games, it is the perfect way to follow the tournament for a TV-less college student like me. Well, almost perfect. Like in many other great American Read More…
Amidst the neon-green crowd at Notre Dame’s Purcell Pavilion Tuesday evening, Cal’s season came to a close in the second round of the NCAA tournament. But from a different angle, the Bears’ campaign only reached its halfway point. Since head coach Lindsay Gottlieb took over the program last April, Cal Read More…
The Cal women’s basketball team reenacted its entire season in the span of 40 minutes Tuesday evening. There were always two sides to this year’s Cal team: the squad that could singlehandedly claw its way back into a contest, epitomized by its Jan. 28 overtime thriller at Stanford; and the Read More…
The Cal women’s basketball team fell, 73-62, to top-seed Notre Dame in Purcell Pavilion in the second round of the NCAA tournament. The Bears kept the first half of Tuesday’s contest close. The team was utterly at a loss to break Notre Dame’s zone defense; unable to play to its Read More…
In the first-round game against Liberty, Notre Dame star guard Skylar Diggins scored just seven points. But Diggins’ stat line from Sunday afternoon should come with a buyer’s beware sign: With a 20-plus-point lead early in the first half, Diggins diverted her attention from scoring to rebounding and passing. The Read More…
Think of the French Revolution, and what comes to mind? Likely, thousands of sans-culottes storming the Bastille in their liberty caps and ending French totalitarian rule once and for all. In 1960, historian Albert Cobban argued au contraire. Cobban’s “Myth of the French Revolution” pointed out that France remained an Read More…
It was the first time any current Cal player competed in an NCAA tournament game. And after Sunday morning’s 84-74 drubbing of Iowa, it won’t be the last. The last time the Cal women’s basketball team received an NCAA berth was in 2009. For the first time since the team’s Read More…
For the first time since 2009, the Cal women’s basketball team has won an NCAA tournament game. On Sunday morning, the eighth-seeded Bears topped ninth-seeded Iowa, 84-74, at Purcell Pavilion in Notre Dame, Ind. Five different Cal players reached double digits in the game. In particular, junior guard Layshia Clarendon Read More…
In the Tournament Selection Show on Monday, ESPN analyst Carolyn Peck argued that the Cal women’s basketball has the best chance of upsetting top-seeded Notre Dame in the second round. Peck compared Cal to West Virginia, who upset the Fighting Irish earlier this season. If only Cal’s March Madness route Read More…
With less than four minutes left in the game, the Cal men’s basketball team was on pace to make history — the program’s worst loss ever in the NCAA tournament. The Bears avoided that black mark, closing a 25-point deficit and losing to South Florida by just 65-54. Nine more Read More…
