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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Cal vs Colorado men's basketball

Yesterday, i went to the Cal basketball game at Haas Pavilion on the Cal campus in Berkeley. There was a ceremony before the game acknowledging Justin Cobbs, Richard Soloman and Jeff Powers who are the three seniors on the team.They barely beat the Colorado buffaloes in overtime 66-65. Colorado led most of the game with their biggest lead being 8 points. Cal was able to hang with them because their defense got stops when they needed to and some players provided timely scoring on offense. Justin Cobbs paced them with 21 points and he got help inside from Richard Soloman and David Kravish who each had a double double with 14 points and 12 rebounds. Colorado was missing their best player Spencer Dinwiddie who was lost for the year with an injury earlier in the season. They still managed to get 24 points from Xavier Johnson and a good game from their point guard Askia Booker who almost won it. The game was  tied 59-59 at the end of regulation, but Cal almost pulled it out at the end of regulation. The Colorado point guard  dribbled down with his team looking to win the game, but Cobbs stole the ball and threw up a shot that barely missed going in. Cal ended  up missing their final 10 shots in the end of regulation and overtime, but they still managed to win by knocking down free throws. With 2 seconds left Wallace missed their first free throw in a while and Booker dribbled down court hoping to win the game. He put up a wild shot that missed and sealed the win for Cal. It was a good game because it went right down to the end and was close the whole game and i enjoyed going and seeing the final home game of the season.

The Pac-12 tournament is next week at the MGM grand arena in Las Vegas. The winner of it gets an automatic bid in the NCAA tournament while the other teams have to wait and see if they will get an at large berth to the tournament. The top four teams receive byes and they play on Thursday. They are Arizona, UCLA, Arizona State, and Cal while the other teams have to play on Wednesday I predict that either Arizona will win, but anything can happen. I would enjoy it if Cal wins because then they wouldn't have any chance of not making the tournament, but we will all find out who wins next weekend
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