As of Monday evening, three Bay Area teams have been assured NCAA Tournament berths – the Stanford women, the Cal men (the Bears are in, period, end of discussion) and now the St. Mary’s men, who prevented having to go through six days of anxiety by coming up with their biggest win since at least ...
For Rhetorical Tuesday this week, we offer three timely questions without expecting an answer.
– How can a college player be unaware that he can’t see?
– Have Cal fans heard that the Bears might win their first conference title in 50 years?
– Can’t NBA scouts see what Landry Fields can do?
Since we tend to look at things ...
There is an aversion to conference championships on the West Coast.
Cal was in control of the Pac-10, then loses by 16 points on Thursday to Oregon State, a team that earlier this season lost to Seattle at home by 51 points and scored just 35 points in a loss to Stanford, but seems to have ...
It’s Rhetorical Tuesday, and JakesTakeOnSports has two rhetorical questions to offer:
No. 1: How can a player who leads the Pac-10 in turnovers be a contender for Pac-10 player of the year?
No. 2: How can a player who leads the West Coast Conference in scoring, rebounding and blocked shots, all by sizable margins, and plays for ...
It’s four weeks until Selection Sunday (we hate the names created by the networks, but it’s an easy handle for our purposes), and it’s become fairly evident what awaits the Bay Area basketball teams in the postseason:
CAL MEN – The Bears would have to collapse to miss getting into the NCAA Tournament now. Even though ...
Items for the day after Thursday’s college basketball action:
– St. Mary’s junior Louella Tomlinson holds the Division I record for blocked shots as of Friday and will no doubt hold it when she finishes her career, but she may not have that record at the end of this season. Stranger still is that one of ...
Because St. Mary’s junior Louella Tomlinson will probably break both the NCAA Division I single-season and career records for blocked shots in Thursday’s critical home game against No. 22 Gonzaga, you simply assume she knows what he’s talking about when she says the key to blocking shots is not jumping.
If anyone else had said it, ...
St. Mary’s should comb its hair, straighten its tie and shine its shoes, because it needs to look good for its appearance on national television on Thursday. The image the Gaels portray during that two-hour exposure may determine whether they get into the NCAA Tournament.
It might seem that with a 21-3 record and no losses ...
Perhaps a snapshot of the Pac-10 and West Coast Conference standings should be taken right now, because Bay Area teams are alone in first place in both conferences, but neither is feeling particularly comfortable about its status.
St. Mary’s moved a half-game ahead of Gonzaga in the WCC with its 73-57 victory over San Francisco on ...
A star player being ejected, coaches planning to go without shoes, a team going more than 10 minutes without scoring and still almost winning, a 35-point performance by a player in a loss, and a player scoring seven points in eight seconds to pull out a game that seemed lost.
Those were just some of the ...
