Cal wins in Pac-10 first round

It's so hard to be a Cal fan...you live in a world of psychological layers where you come to intimately know the creed of the parent of an addict: "You can't want it more for them than they want it for themselves". I've come to a happy place with Ben Braun - he's not my ideal coach, but he's a gentleman and he's a respectable representative for my alma mater. But I just can't figure out these teams - I run around telling people, "Forgive them...they know not what they do".

But that said, they get another shot at UCLA in the Pac-10 tournament, and that makes me happy. I think Cal got screwed in that last game against the Bruins, but teams get screwed all the time - as my father would say, "That's why they call it basketball".