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Cal is No. 2 in the country but trails No. 6 USC in the Pac-12 standings. Separation in the league could come this weekend, as four Pac-12 teams ranked among the top six in the country face off.

Tarah Murrey's improvement has given Cal another weapon as the Bears take on USC with a shot at the national title game on the line.

Newcomer Cal and giant-killer Louisville offer a new storylines next to old favorites UConn and Notre Dame.

Since watching Notre Dame win the 2001 title, South Bend native Skylar Diggins has been focused on leading the Fighting Irish to another. The senior's last shot has arrived.

From a region full of senior point guards to a pair of Pac-12 vs. SEC showdowns in another, we take a quick look at the next round now that the Sweet 16 is set.

Baylor and Tennessee are together again. If chalk holds, the Final Four could be a repeat of 2012. And of course, Baylor could again be doing the last dance in New Orleans. Yes, this year's bracket looks awfully familiar.

After grabbing 26 rebounds Thursday to break a 19-year-old Pac-12 record, Cal's Gennifer Brandon nabbed our weekly honor.

There are always different faces in new places every college season. But it's still strange to get used to it when very familiar faces aren't in the same places anymore. For the first time since the year of the Bicentennial and Jimmy Carter's electi...

What a full scholarship at Cal-Berkeley entails: $24,793 resident, $47,671 nonresident (includes tuition, room, board, supplies, etc.) Cost of attendance: For resident living on campus: $31,566; off-campus $27,094. Nonresident living on campus: $54,4...

Penn State's senior class accomplished a feat few athletes can claim: It won an NCAA championship in each of its four years.

As accustomed as Penn State's seniors are to winning titles, Cal's senior class has seen its season end at the hands of the Nittany Lions for the past four years.

There is no "get rich quick" scheme that will work in the rugged Pac-10. Cal's rise is the result of coaching, recruiting and a whole lot of hard work.

Cal dropped two games to USC in the regular season. But the Bears got the best of their Pac-10 foe when it mattered most, with a title-game appearance on the line.

On Saturday, Penn State's Alyssa D'Errico will go for her fourth straight NCAA championship. But getting to the 2010 title game was anything but a given.

Penn State has ended Cal's NCAA tournament run in each of the past three seasons. But the Bears are planning on a different ending to the 2010 season.

By the time the women's volleyball Final Four participants were set this weekend, we'd seen the top three seeds eliminated, a heart-wrenching story of courage, and a Jerry Springer-type moment between coaches after the tournament's most emotionally charged match.