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!

"I just looked up WSU and apparently they were auto-qualifiers. How they got auto-qualification by losing in they quarter final of the Pac-12 Tournament by 30 points is beyond me but whatever."

The WNIT selection process states: "Thirty-two (32) spots in the Postseason WNIT will be filled automatically by the best team available in each of the nation’s 32 conferences, after the NCAA Tournament committee makes its picks." http://www.womensnit.com/event-info1.html

WSU finished tied for 7th with Cal. Cal had a significantly better overall record http://pac-12.com/sport/womens-basketball and only lost thier quarterfinal game by 18 to OSU, while WSU lost by 30 to Stanford. http://pac-12.com/womens-basketball/womens-basketball-tournament

Seven Pac 12 teams including Cal were invited to the NCAA's, leaving WSU as the auto-bid.

Further,(same cite): The host site for each game is selected by the WNIT committee based on several factors such as fan base, host bids, facility availability, tournament seed, travel constraints, etc.

This should provide some incentive for our road warriors.

Go Ags!

Not even in the fine print towards the rear of the sports section*. Not even one of their crack investigative journalism capsules that reads "according to the UC Davis website."

*They do however include the first leg schedules for the quarterfinals of the European Champions League (soccer) for games to be played on the 11th and 12th of April.

Wanna go 2 outta 3?

It was fun. Wish we could have kept it in the 20 point range, but Kansas is Kansas. Enjoy the ride.

I was going for the cheap laugh...you said "his MO" and he went to Missouri.

Kind of coincidental that the Bears stunk up the NIT and before the ink was dry on that story he had left Cal and signed with Mizzou. Think this has been in the works for awhile.

Gotta think Cal will make another pitch for Randy Bennett at St. Mary's.