Braun says young Cal players will benefit from NIT berth
(03-16) 21:36 PDT — Cal sophomore forward Ryan Anderson had to rush from the Staples Center to catch a flight Thursday after the Bears lost 88-66 to UCLA in the Pac-10 tournament, but he found the time to make one heart-felt statement.
“It will be a huge disappointment if we have to sit at home and see other teams continue to play,” he said. “To play in a postseason tournament would be huge, experience-wise. We can learn what it feels like and come back hard next year.”
Instead of sitting at home during the postseason, Anderson and his teammates will be playing at home after accepting a bid Sunday to play in the National Invitational Tournament. The Bears (16-15) earned a No. 4 regional seed and will play New Mexico (24-8) at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Haas Pavilion.
Tickets will go sale at 8:30 a.m. today via calbears.com and through the Cal ticket office at (800) 462-3277. The winner of the Cal-New Mexico game will play the Ohio State-North Carolina Asheville winner on a date between Thursday and next Monday at a site to be determined.
“College basketball has become extremely competitive, so to be in the postseason is a huge opportunity,” Cal coach Ben Braun said. “I don’t think you should ever look at the NIT as a consolation. We’re looking at it as a great opportunity to extend our season, especially after having been through so many tough games.”
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There was a phrase used in this article: ICT skills. Never heard of them. I did however, teach myself how to use operating systems starting with an old monochrome IBM gui over dos, evolving into windows 3.1 and finally to xp. I learned a hell of a lot about computers growing up with windows and dos, and I don’t see what’s wrong with that other than the whole MS is an evil corporation thing, which has no direct bearing on me. So assuming that the skills I have are ICT skills, wtf is wrong with them?
The majority of pro-FOSS people are hypocrites, this is quite well known.
what’s with the sleep request? it does, it just kills the cpu and powers the screen, which is GREAT for reading.i do think you’re right, it was pretty hard to find the existence of XoIRC even using their wiki, and they removed the use of a conf file so you’re forced to go to the help room.
The illusive double colon headline!
Bill Gates is like King Midas except for the slight difference that everything he touches turns to hot smelly doo doo.Hey Gates! Get your shit-stained hands off our laptop! Go make your own!!Cant you and Bono go asspound each other in a hotel room for the next 20 years and just give us all your excess money since you have no fucking clue how to use it?
Breathtaking hypocrisy at its finest. The anti-Microsoft brigade are up in arms when MS uses it’s near monopoly to deny competitors the opportunity to compete.The response this time? Let’s lock down the XO and deny the right to other companies (e.g. MS) to develop an OS for it.
It’s only freedom if it supports your definition of free then, is it? You sick commie fuck.
Oh, yes, because you’re so dependent on Windows.
For many programs, especially small programs, an implementation in Python would be smaller than a binary.Also, don’t forget that not everyone has a good internet connection on which they can download the source of their OS as needed.
You’re totally right, these children will be better products and their shareholders happier.
Learning Linux teaches you how Linux works; nothing more.