No Coasting: Bruins Zero In To Crush Oregon State
by Nestor on Mar 5, 2009 9:16 PM PST
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PrintNow that's what we were talking about. Bruins start senior week by crushing Oregon State in a satisfying blowout win.
Earlier today I was dreading Bruins might be looking to coast to the Dance through this last week of the regular season. I was afraid that they would come out without focus and without the intensity that allowed them to gain momentum from big road wins last week.
No worries. Bruins did come out a sloppy in early mins as they found themselves tied 11-11 early in the first half and then they turned on the jets finishing the half with a 43-19 lead and never looking back. The final score was 79-54. Here is the box score.
The player of the game? No contest:
Photo Credit: Victor Decolongon/Getty Images (via Yahoo)
JS puts together perhaps one of the most spectacular first half performance (I think he had outscored the Beavers 22-19 at the half) in recent memory to finish the night with 27 points.
The others seniors weren't too shabby. DC almost notched a triple double with 6 points, 8 assists and 11 boards. PAA started off a little shaky picking up 2 quick fouls in the first half. No doubt he was probably a little jittery infront of his parents but he ended up having a typical PAA second half finishing the night with 9 pts and 3 boards.
All in all a great start for the seniors in this special week. We will have more on this game tomorrow and look ahead to Senior Day. For now I will leave it up to you for all the insta analysis, comments, reactions in our post game thread.
GO BRUINS.
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My mistake
BTW how awesome would it be for SUC to miss the tournament due to OSU beating them again (leaving them 8-10 in the conference)? I say this because Timmeh sold out with a PACKAGE DEAL and might not even get a tournament berth with his rent-a-player DeRozan.
It would be two years in a row with a rent-a-player
and exactly zero Tourney wins to show for it.
by bornagainbruin on Mar 6, 2009 12:25 PM PST up reply actions
Potentially three in a row
with Renardo Sidney joining the trOJies.
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
All my hard work really paid off tonight.
I feel like I’m in the zone like Shipp in the first half tonight.
Hmmm
Don Maclean says that Stanford beating ASU hurts the conference rank? Less NCAA bids?
I'm leaving you West Coasters in charge
Way too late for a geezer to be awake.
68-63 Cal over UA
~3 mins left
and UA just turned it over to them
Wow Randle hit a huge 3 with the shot clock winding down
And then Nic Wise fouled out on charge in the ensuing posession
Budinger is such a pussy -
Hard deliberate foul, but nowhere to be found when it’s time to play d
sjh
Ahhhh
Great start to the final homestand for our seniors.
And now, on to Oregon. Since we’re on ABC (sigh) I don’t know how much coverage they’ll give to Senior Day festivities.
If anyone will be at the game, let us know how it goes and… video?
I figured you meant pacific
but I’m west coast anyway. Thanks!
76-73 Cal
26.3 left – Cal missed 2 front ends of 1 and 1
Don Maclean has faith
Faith in the seniors. Faith in Coach Howland. To go deep into the tournament.
I have faith as well.
GO BRUINS
Bright analysis and commentary
He knows what a great job CBH is doing this year.
No one mentions him as coach of the year, but DM makes clear this is not as good a team as last year but CBH has it moving forward through preparation and coaching.
sjh
Question
What is coach Howland’s middle name?
It's not on wikipedia or the official site
or the first 50 google results
Budinger misses the 3
Fouled Randle, 2.4 seconds left
Cal with the victory
not a good stat
why did our point guard get 11 rebounds……
big men not doing their job
GO BRUINS!!! CHEER LIKE CHAMPIONS!!!
DC did the job
DC got a couple of early rebounds and after that was very aggressive going crashing the glass. One time he even went up with PAA and ND to fight for the rebound. I think it was really 2 fold. First he could taste the triple double and wanted it. Second, the Princeton offense that OSU runs means that bigs are out on the perimeter which means that in order to sure up the rebounding, you need everyone to hit the glass.
The sad thing is
It really isn’t worth it to troll. There are options that can wipe out their entire presence from BN alongside the ban. Comments, fanposts, fanshots, everything. It literally takes 4-5 mouse clicks.
In case anyone's interested
The UCLA women’s basketball team won in Eugene, OR with a 40 ft buzzer beating shot
This article has a link to a video of it
Knowing what happens, it’s a bit of an anticlimax, but still. link
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