Cal 4 Washington St. 0 8:33
Were I still using Twitter, this would’ve gone there: Kemery Martin just made two of the best passes of her career.
Author: Frisco Del Rosario
Friday 2/3
Considering our respective rankings before last night’s chess game, I expected to beat my opponent quickly, leave the chess club early-ish, and save myself from watching basketball at dawn. That’s as hazardous a manner of thinking for chessplayers as it is for basketball teams (and any competitive entity); our game was next-to-last to finish, and […]
Santa Clara 77 Gonzaga 72
Santa Clara beat Gonzaga 77-72 Thursday at the Leavey Center. It was Gonzaga’s first conference loss of the season, and SCU’s first win over Gonzaga in seven years. Brynna Maxwell made her first five 3-point attempts, but the last two were both blocked during the game’s final minute.
How cool and warm is this hat?
Given our continued record low temperatures, I wanted a hat with earflaps. Pulling down the cuff of a standard knit beanie used to do — before eyeglasses plus surgical masks. Now I’m set for a trip to the Rocky Mountains, Pacific Northwest, or, well, Berkeley for chess tonight.
Here, Bulldogs
West Coast Conference leader Gonzaga visits San Francisco and Santa Clara this week. I think I should go to at least one of those games, because I’ve never actually seen Brynna Maxwell set a gym on fire. I’m a little amused that she almost surely wouldn’t know me on sight (same with Kemery Martin at […]
Told you
Stanford 62 Oregon 54 I told you Cameron Brink would triple with points, rebounds, and blocks. I didn’t think she’d do it the next day. I also said Stanford would crush Oregon, because Oregon isn’t such a good basketball team, ranked in the Top 25 earlier because sportswriters like Coach Graves, and don’t like change. […]
Scoreboard watching
With the exception of Arizona, every team in the region with a record better than.500 plays another Sunday. The Big 10 teams host the mountain teams, with tournament seed implications. I’d watch those games, but I’m off to watch two old men voice cartoon laboratory mice.
A long Friday night
UCLA at Colorado: Tied with 2 seconds left in overtimeOregon St. at Stanford: Tied with 2:10 in the fourthOregon at Cal: 1-point game with 1:28 remainingSouthern Cal at Utah: UU’s 20-point lead reduced to 6 with 3:06 to go As ever, it’s in how you want to look at it. I think: This is why […]
Unlike professionals, I don’t have to venture forecasts or predictions for every pregame
Oregon at Cal Cal is likely to run into Arizona, Washington St., or Oregon in the first round of the conference tournament. How good is the Pac? Arizona and Oregon could finish in the top 25 yet have to win four games in the tournament. That’s bad news for #11 Cal and #12 Arizona St. […]
Brynna Maxwell forms a personal subchapter of the 1800 Club
Among the trivial performance measures to amuse me over the years is the notion that if you sum a player’s FG%, 3FG%, and FT%, then multiply by 1000, and get a result of 1800 or better, you’ve got an excellent shooter. In other words, a player recording .500, .400, and .900 can shoot it. If […]