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Monique Reid, who grew up in Louisville and has been a lifelong Cardinals fan, missed most of last season with a knee injury. She re-injured the knee in January and will require surgery when the season ends. Until then, she plans to leave it all on the court.

Cal dives into matchups against conference heavyweights this week. It'll have to play solidly to maintain its spot in the Pac-12 race and the weekly power rankings.

Having the opportunity to play on the second-to-last night of the season is an accomplishment for any team. That is the salve on the pain that comes from Cal's defeat, from being 20 minutes of good basketball away from the national championship game.

Georgia coach Andy Landers made sure his seniors knew what they signed up for when they arrived as freshmen. Cal's seniors -- the three who stayed and played -- were already halfway through their careers when coach Linsday Gottlieb arrived.

The Cardinal and Golden Bears split their regular-season series, playing twice in the same week in January. Cal's win at Stanford ended the Cardinal's 81-game conference win streak.

LAS VEGAS -- Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak says he's a firm believer in "the basketball gods." So time and time again this season, whenever he'd pass through the gym an hour or so after practice and see Jarred DuBois still on the court, taking shot af...

Does anyone want to win the Pac-12? The regular-season championship trophy has been dangling in front of the Oregon Ducks, UCLA Bruins and Cal Golden Bears all week, but no one has stepped up and grabbed it. Cal was manhandled by Stanford -- at ho...

Will the race for the Wooden Award really be decided on the final day of the regular season? If you plan to vote for Victor Oladipo or Trey Burke, probably so. Oladipo's Indiana Hoosiers meet Burke's Michigan Wolverines Sunday in Ann Arbor in a game ...

Arizona and UCLA were ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, in the preseason Pac-12 media poll. Yet neither team will be in first place when they square off Saturday at Pauley Pavilion on "College GameDay." UCLA (11-4 in conference) trails league lea...

John Gasaway explains which five college basketball teams, including Louisville and Kansas, are peaking at the right time.

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In most leagues, the race for the conference title is down to two or three teams. The Pac-12 is different. Arizona and Oregon are tied for first place in the conference standings at 10-4. But five other teams are within two games of the Wildcats and ...

Cal athletic director Sandy Barbour wasn't at Sunday night's game against USC. She was traveling back to the Bay Area, but upon landing, was quickly apprised of what occurred during the Bears' game against the Trojans. Cal coach Mike Montgomery had...

Who wants it? Or rather, does anyone want it? More and more these days the Pac-12 title seems like a greased pig being chased around a pen. Teams get their hands on it, but none of them can sustain a grip. Arizona? UCLA? Colorado or Oregon? Eve...

It's time to stop hating on the Pac-12. Or at the very least, let's tone down the criticism. The quest for the league title is as entertaining as any conference race in the country, and the parity in the Pac-12 has produced some of the closest, most ...

Just when everything seemed set up for Oregon to win the Pac-12 title, the Ducks got lambasted by Stanford on Wednesday, and now nothing is certain. Whatever happens, it appears that the race for the league crown is going to be one of the most intere...

Oregon has been the best team in the Pac-12 thus far. And also the luckiest. The Ducks already have defeated Arizona and UCLA -- the league's other top teams -- and because of the scheduling imbalance, they don't have to face either school again. Tha...