By: Michael Protos in: Columns
14 Mar 2010If Cal’s strength of schedule delivered the Golden Bears an at-large bid, the selection committee might be encouraging power conference teams to ignore the mid-majors.
By: Michael Protos in: Conference Notes
7 Mar 2010Cal’s artificially high RPI might not fool the selection committee if the Bears need an at-large bid to make the NCAA Tournament.
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
30 Jan 2010While the Pac-10 is in danger of becoming a one-bid conference this season, the Atlantic 10 and Mountain West could put as many as nine teams into the NCAA Tournament. How is that possible?
Holy Cross head coach Ralph Willard was hoping to hear from Siena head coach Fran McCaffery to talk about what happened last week when the two teams met and had an ending that surprised just about everyone there. His preference was, understandably, to keep things in-house on the matter.

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