California next up for Huskies
by John Berkowitz on Jan 9, 2009 6:57 PM PST
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Next up for the Washington Huskies are the surprising California Golden Bears who are having a resurgence under new coach Mike Montgomery. You might remember Montgomery from his days at Stanford when he built Stanford into a national power before bolting for the big bucks of the NBA.
California had been an underachieving group until Montgomery showed up this season and he has the Bears on top of the standings with a 3-0 record to start the conference season and a 14-2 record overall. The Bears throttled 17th ranked Arizona State by 30 points last weekend in a game that rocked the mentality of the league. With that resounding win everyone knew the Bears were back.
On Thursday night Cal hit the road against WSU and ground out a 57-50 win in Pullman to start the road trip.
One of the keys to the game on Saturday will be shutting the Bears down on the outside. Cal is hitting 49.5 percent from three point range so far this season. Cal is led by the trio of PG Jerome Randle and swingmen Patrick Christopher and Theo Robertson all three of those guys can really light it up. Randle is second in the Pac-10 in scoring at 18.8 per game.
Husky notes:
Elston Turner is again doubtful at best to play while nursing a high ankle sprain suffered against Morgan State.
Romar said it is almost a certainty that the game against Lehigh will not be rescheduled. However, he said he still hopes to schedule a replacement game against someone, possibly Seattle U.
AD Scott Woodward hopes a series in the future with Gonzaga can be resumed but nothing solid has been planned. Ultimately it is up to Romar and he isn't in to playing the Zags on a home and home basis.
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Huskies vs. Zags
It’s a popluar opinion or myth that the reason UDub dropped Gonzaga from it’s schedule was out of fear. This is NOT true. The point is Gonzaga plays in smaller conference and just like every other big boy program we want the game either at Bank of America or at a neutral site. Does Arizona play Northern Arizona on a home and home schedule? Does Ucla play Cal State Fullerton using home and home? Does Oregon when they schedule Portland State?
This is a Pac 10 program and we don’t bow down to nobody, especially to a program from the WCC. All this fear talk stems from Gonzaga and everybody seems to be buying into it. The UofW is a big time program and just like Carolina, Duke, Syracuse, and Kansas we are going to meet our demands and some of those demands are related to the revenue assoiciated with ticket sales.
I hope the rivalry between the Huskies and Zags gets going again, but it should be scheduled at Bank of America or at a neutral site. They want us that bad? They’ve got to meet our demands. We are the Pac 10 they are NOT.
Yes but Few...
I’m quite certain if the game is going to be scheduled for Key Arena, then surely Few wants the following season’s game at the Spokane Arena.
The truth be told Gonzaga and Few want the Zags to be a big boy program. With all due respect they are, but we should not assist them in any way. We don’t schedule teams from inferior conferences with home and away scheduling. Nor does Arizona, UCLA, Kentucky, Duke, Carolina, and Kansas, along with all the other major programs. They want us, they’ve got to come to us. I vote no in scheduling home and away for the Zags. They are the WCC where we are the Pac 10.
Not beating Gonzaga
Don’t think for a second that not beating Gonzaga figures in the equation along with the fact that Romar and Few are not friendly.
Could that be in regards to the Heitvelt thing?
Again we schedule all the other NW schools, but we don’t incorporate it with home and home scheduling. We do with WSU because of the Pac 10 alliance.
I’ll admit it, when Gonzaga came up in 99 and made their initial run the the tournament, I followed them for a few seasons. About the time Lorenzo Romar was hired I began to hate the Zags. And when Adam Morrison was a junior any fanhood I had for Gonzaga was GONE! His chest thumps looked choreographed, the floppy hair and the “stache” thing was not easy on the eyes! I don’t like what Gonzaga has become. Loved the last second loss to Ucla in the NCAAs a few years ago- sWeeeet! Nowadays I root for anybody that Gonzaga plays.
Game Today
can someone give me the time and channel the game is on? How does ESPN put on Missouri vs Nebraska over Cal vs UW!!!! Ridiculous!
FSN 3:00PM pst
We get very little ESPN exposure for basketball, most of the time just some marquee non-conference games. All I’m wondering is why they’re televising strong man contests on a Saturday with so many great basketball games going on right now.
FSN and the Pac 10
There are a lot of times when they televise a big 12 game. My question is why? This is FSNorthwest, so why in the world are you televising texas/big 12 games? If there is a NWest team playing, televise that, if not go for the next available Pac-10 contest.
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