UCLA at Stanford was the most critical game on the schedule Sunday, and I still don’t know its result. I’m staying the bleep off the Internet until it’s rerun on P12 Network in 18 hours.
It was a very bad idea to play chess Saturday, after attending UCLA at Cal plus watching Utah at Arizona *and* doing schoolwork Friday night.
A first-place tie as the #1 seed is a bad tournament, and I couldn’t get out of bed Sunday. At 10 a.m., the alarm sounded, but no dice, and I was still in bed nine hours later.
In one respect, watching USC at Cal on P12 Network improved on being there, because the Network got background on the 10th anniversary of Cal’s Final Four team that I couldn’t get. They talked to Coach Gottlieb about that Cal team, and like I said, it takes going through gatekeepers and paperwork to talk to Coach G. these days. She’s like a coaching cult figure now, considering her NBA experience.
The Golden Bears and Trojans were tied to start the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th, and the overtime. Cal’s season-long difficulty in putting together 40 minutes was not in clear evidence, and they played all 45 (I’m guessing they scored a season-best in second chance points). USC’s difficulty finding someone to score was also manageable, for Sisoko scoring 30-some.
It was the best of both teams, in late February.