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Cal Hires Former Assistant Lindsay Gottlieb As Head Coach: What Kind Of Expertise Does She Bring?
Newly hired California Golden Bears head coach Lindsay Gottlieb certainly seems to fit the coaching mold that Brian McCormick described as good for women's college basketball last week. She paid her dues as an assistant coach at a top school then had time to develop expertise during a successful...
SBN Links: K-State "Owns" TAMU, The First Women's College Basketball Team & Why Cal Fans Can Root For Stanford
We at Swish Appeal pride ourselves on trying to cover as much women's basketball - year round, no less - as we possibly can without the use of a transporter.However, with tournament time upon us, some of SBN's college sites are also catching up on the action of their women's teams. First, SBN's...
How Cal, Miami Went In Opposite Directions After 2010 WNIT Finals 'Learning Experience'
As the California Golden Bears and Miami Hurricanes tried to prepare for their 2010 WNIT Finals meeting on the same flight to Berkeley, it also might have felt as though both were preparing for an even brighter future in 2011. Although both teams would lose a couple of key seniors, both were also...
How Washington's Defense Frustrated A 'Lackadaisical & Unfocused' Cal Team
Both the Washington Huskies and California Golden Bears needed a win in Seattle yesterday. Washington had something to prove after claiming they weren't actually 29 points worse than Stanford. Meanwhile, despite returning four starters from last season's WNIT championship team, Cal was at risk of...
2010-11 Pac-10 Preview: A Conference Poised To Restore Its National Reputation
I said this at the end of last season but it bears repeating: the Pac-10 will be much better this season. Not only are there a number of young rising stars poised to make a name for themselves this season, but there are a few young coaches who are developing as well and capable of taking their...
What are Gray-Lawson's Chances to "Beat Someone Out" After a Draft Day "Fall"?
Most people predicted that yesterday's WNBA draft would be unpredictable. Everyone knew that the draft was "guard-heavy" and the selection order was more likely to be determined by team needs and preferences than the talent of the prospects. Yet even with the expectation of unpredictability, there...
WNBA Draft Prospects: The Trials and Tribulations of the Undersized Combo Guard
For the sake of full disclosure: we here at SBN are big Alexis Gray-Lawson fans. Of course, by we, I mean myself, and probably most of California Golden Blogs, with norcalnick and TwistNHook leading the charge. I'm a Berkeley native, they're Berkeley alums/fans, we are all Pac-10 supporters and...
On CGB's Summary of "Cal v. Miami WNIT Championship Game Photo Essay 4.3.10 Parts I & II"
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> Normal 0 0 1 76 436 3 1 535 11.1280 </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> 0 0 0 </xml><![endif]--> I confess: I might be a little bit more excited than most people about Cal's WNIT championship because I'm...
Photo Gallery: Arizona State Defeats Cal 57-50 With a Late Run
Arizona State 57, California 50 California Golden Blogs game preview Photos by Max Simbron Arizona State celebrates after Danielle Orsillo's go-ahead shot to defeat the University of California 57-50 on Saturday afternoon.
Alexis Gray-Lawson's Defining Performance: "You gotta let players like that just play"
As a young budding basketball dork, there were certain games that I determined to be so special that I had to save the ticket stub just in case I had to validate the authenticity of my account by saying, see - I was actually there. The first such game was a double overtime game between the Golden...
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