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USC 81 Arizona 64 The host Trojans assisted on 22 of their 27 FGM, and they did so in the darndest fashion. Juju Watkins threatened to break down her defender one-on-one, until one or two Wildcats went to help. Then Watkins gave up the ball to get 4 assists, and if the ball kept moving, […]
Among the six Pac-12 teams above .500, four of them are playing against a team below .500. The other two — Oregon St. and Utah — play each other. One-half game separates the Beavers and the Utes, so there are heavy tiebreaker implications. I haven’t been writing, which is the surest indicator that I’m not […]
I’m eager to play chess Saturday, because I haven’t completely been at the board on Friday nights. I’ve played three draws against three lower-rated opponents so I could get home to watch basketball. It occurred to me that Coach Rob would talk to me about this. When you’re not playing hard, you don’t want the […]
The four best teams in the Pac-12 played amongst themselves last Sunday, though I’m loath to say that doesn’t include Utah. USC 73, UCLA 65 was so critical to the state of our dissolving conference that I watched that game despite knowing the score already. My takeaway from last weekend’s games — whereas you might’ve […]
During one of northern California’s coldest, wettest spells of the year, I spent Friday night in the garage. Around midnight, while I was compiling numbers from Stanford at Cal — Stanford 78Cal 51 Stanford was better and Cal was worse while Cameron Brink was on the floor. After factoring out the last five minutes of […]
48 Texas at San Antonio61 Oregon The term “also ran” got its start in racing forms. One horse won, one horse placed, one horse showed, and the rest of the field “also ran”. “Also ran” is not such a bad thing. An Olympics also-ran is pretty effing great, whether in 4th place or last — […]
Utah guard Gianna Kneepkens, on the watch list for national player of the year and shown in the background picture above, is out for the season following a foot injury suffered Saturday. Utah coach Roberts said in a press release that the “entire program is devastated for Gianna”. I’m a grain of sand in the […]
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 […]
Could this afternoon’s visit to Haas Pavilion from the Trojans be USC coach Lindsay Gottlieb’s last visit to Berkeley? Could also be the last chance I get to talk with her. In one of Coach Gottlieb’s early years at UC Santa Barbara, the Gauchos visited Fresno State, and by the time Coach left the team […]
Today, each of the six Pac-12 teams with league records greater than 7-7 plays against a conference opponent with a record less than 7-7. In almost every league in the country, that would make for a dreadful boring day, except #7 and #8 in the Pac-12 are Washington State and Oregon, who are vying for […]