And Georgia Tech in turn falls to Michigan in the WNIT final.

I'm betting that whatever the Junior University can offer will more than make up for any interruption in either of the Goulds' UC retirement plans.

WSU falls to Georgia Tech in the semis. GT will play Michigan on Saturday for the WNIT championship.

If Washington State were to win the WNIT, they still would not have a winning record on the season.

Washington State on to the semi-finals with a 74-66 road victory over Iowa.

Fingers crossed.

Cal promotes ass't Wyking Jones to head coach.

http://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/article/Cal-promotes-Wyking-Jones-to-head-men-s-11025962.php

IF I recall correctly, (always a big IF anymore,) when the Ags made the D-II Elite Eight tourney some players actually took exams on the road. Williams made some comment in a news story about adding being an exam proctor to his duties as a head coach.

Probably don't do that these days at the big "one-and-done" programs.

Congratulations. Three games into a national tournament, all on the road, all against bigger programs. Traveling to the Palouse during finals week, coming back strong and fighting to the end. ....Lots to be proud of. Great future for this team.

Go Ags.

A miracle...

http://www.sacbee.com/sports/college/article140230313.html

I think Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN are all laughing at Californiagoldenblogs for the quality of their reporting.

That aside, IF the comments about the internal misworkings of the Cal athletic department are accurate, Cal is a mess and it's no wonder they have trouble with hiring and retaining coaches.

Unnattributed blog reports, but this one says Musselman is in, and there is a lot of turmoil in the athletic department at the Mother Campus.
http://www.californiagoldenblogs.com/2017/3/22/15019780/california-golden-bears-eric-musselman-ashwin-puri-mike-williams-athletic-director

Bee has doubled their coverage of the women's participation in the WNIT. This morning they have, again in the fine print, a listing of tomorrow's games and at the end is UCD at WSU.

They also devote about two column inches to a bit on the local minor league soccer team having to cancel a match.

I think Les is going to be a guest on KHTK 1140 tomorrow, Wednesday, at noon.

Had a family member who went to St. Mary's and am aware that the Bears look down on that little college in their backyard. They just might look at a place like that like England looked at the colonies 250 years ago.

The day before Californiagoldenblogs ran the piece that sparked this thread, they ran a piece that threw out Bennett's and Les' names, then quickly dismissed them both.

http://www.californiagoldenblogs.com/2017/3/19/14976780/randy-bennett-california-golden-bears-basketball-coaching-search

Test the water, and if nothing else, you know what's out there when you're current contract is set to end.

If you're Davis or Irvine, keep Bob Williams' number on your "contacts."

If only someone on the team had taken advantage of UC travel policies, approved the hire of relatives, sat on boards whose goal was to prohibit intercollegiate athletics, or hired someone to scrub the internet. No, we just get students who are playing at an optimum level and taking it to bigger schools in a national tournament.

In the fine print on the lower right corner of page 4C of the sports section of this morning's Bee is a list of WNIT scores with the line "UC Davis 58 Colorado State 57." I think that is the most coverage the women have recieved to date.

Oh, and in the crossword on page 9C, the clue for 41 across is "Playing marble." The answer is [SPOILER ALERT] "aggie."

Yeah, I think the team can put the white home uniforms away for the year. Not trying to jump ahead of ourselves here, but should we win we might be able to make an argument that we should host Colorado, but we wouldn't get far with any suggestion that we could host Iowa.

Go Ags!