Cal Athletics hires Charmin Smith as women’s basketball head coach
Cal has earned ten 20-win seasons, made nine NCAA Tournament appearances and reached the Final Four for the first time in 2013 with Smith on staff.
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Cal women’s basketball slated to face UNC in NCAA Tournament
The Bears are the No. 8 seed in the Greensboro regional side and are set to face off with No. 9 North Carolina on Saturday in Waco, Texas.
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The Hunger for Madness
Vik-Tory Lap
I genuinely believe that building a bracket and betting on it is arguably the worst thing for basketball, because the financial incentive takes the humanity out of sports.
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Body and Soul: Mo Mosley’s creativity extends beyond the court
Looking at the pages offers insight into the thoughts and ideas that run through the head of MaAne’ “Mo” Mosley; she is a creative soul with a passion for writing, often articulating her thoughts best by hand.
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Cuonzo’s Destructive Wake: examining the damage done a year later
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What Cal has now, one year into the destructive wake of Martin’s tanking of that game, is its worst overall record since the late 1970s.
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Cal women’s basketball obliterated by Baylor in 2nd round of NCAA Tournament, 86-46
When the Cal women’s basketball was selected for the NCAA Tournament, it came as a bit of a surprise. The team had posted a dismal 6-12 record in the Pac-12 Conference, and chances of selection seemed slim. But the team made it to the tournament as the ninth seed. In
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Toy with my emotions, March
I’m heated. Not because Cal didn’t make the NCAA tournament ─ its late-season collapse spelled more than enough doom for the Bears ─ but because numbers have failed me. Numbers never lie, but clearly the metrics for giving a bid to the Big Dance stand far beyond what’s apparent to
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Potential Final Four Teams
The excitement of March Madness is only days away, but before we can kick off the Big Dance, there are, of course, those brackets to fill out. But making the perfect bracket is almost impossible to do, so here are some thoughts about predicting the Final Four teams. East Region:
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Cal women’s basketball earns a No. 9 seed in 2017 NCAA Tournament
“In order to make history, you have to do historic things.” This is the Kobe Bryant quote that inspired Kristine Anigwe’s 50-point performance back on Dec. 8. Now, with the Bears earning a No. 9 seed in the 2017 NCAA Tournament and Twitter acknowledgement from the Black Mamba himself, Anigwe
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Cal men’s basketball misses out on NCAA Tournament, receives No. 1 seed in NIT
Two days after falling in a close match against Oregon in the semifinals of the Pac-12 Tournament, Cal men’s basketball (21-12) barely missed out on reaching the NCAA Tournament, for what would have been its second year in a row at the Big Dance. Listed as one of the four
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