Cal vs. WSU

women's Pac-12 basketball tournament

Transcript

00:00 If you just look at the records, Cal and Washington seem to be pretty even.

00:04 And Cal won both of the regular season games against Washington State.

00:08 The first one was tight, it went in overtime and Cal barely pulled out.

00:12 The second one in Pullman, Cal was clearly the better team throughout the game.

00:17 They led by 18 points with less than seven minutes to go and

00:19 they sort of bumbled their way to a seven point win.

00:23 There was never really much doubt that they were gonna win the game, but

00:26 they didn't play so well in the last couple of minutes, made the game closer.

00:31 So you have to wonder why, with similar records,

00:36 why Washington State looks like it has a better chance of getting in the NCAA

00:40 tournament than Cal does.

00:42 As we all know, the non-conference games count as much as the conference games.

00:47 And the net, the NET rankings, play a role in the selection of the teams.

00:53 The NET considers a lot of things, including who you play, where you play, and

00:57 the margin of victory to some degree.

00:59 And Washington State came into the Pac-12 tournament with a number 25

01:04 net ranking, while Cal was 62.

01:07 So that's a big difference.

01:09 So that probably plays a major role in why Washington State was projected,

01:15 in at least a couple of projections, to be in the NCAA tournament and Cal was not.

01:20 Cal is predicted, was put in the next four out category by ESPN.

01:25 There's the first four out, which is the next four that would have gotten in, and

01:29 then there's the next four out.

01:30 So it's outside of the top four contenders to get into the NCAA tournament.

01:36 And those are just projections.

01:37 We'll have to see what happens when the actual announcement of the field is made.

01:42 But these projections are usually pretty close.