by Morris Phillips and Michael Duca

BERKELEY–For Cal in the post season will and as it always has depends on seeding and placement, last year was the first time in memory that Cal didn’t wind up playing a 9 AM game in College Park Maryland under something equally absurd. They typically go in with a nine or ten seed and get shuttled across the country and get the 9 AM game.

Or at least a game that feels like a 9 AM game to Cal because they’ve gone from west coast to east coast. If they can stay on the western half of the United States and they can get to a place where they can travel a few fans and get a favorable match up they can certainly get to the round of 16. They’re good enough to have proven to beat anybody and they’ve also proved they can lose to anybody.

They lost to USC proving they stunk up the joint proving they can lose wire to wire losing down there 77-69 on Wednesday January 22. It’ll be interesting to see how Cal and USC match up on Wednesday night at Haas. They made the game at Washington State a lot more exciting then it needed it to be.

Justin Cobbs for Cal was named as one of the 23 finalists for the Bob Cousy Award and it’s well deserved, Cobbs is a senior and he acts like it on the court at all times. He looks to distribute, the Washington State game is where he handed out seven assists before half time and then scored about a million and half points in the second half in order to win that game.

Cobbs is one of those kids that just does whatever is required of him at any given time and he seems to have a high basketball IQ. Duca hung him with a basketball name that he really liked Mike calls him the “Iceman” now because it just doesn’t seem to matter what’s going on. He was out there watching the Syracuse-Pitt game before Washington State the other night and Cobbs was excited when he heard that Syracuse had won the game in the final second on a final 33 foot three point shot, his first question was “was it a step back?” The step back is the best way to put a dagger in someone’s heart.

Cal is as good as good as the 2010 team and the conference is better than the conference was in 2010. Arizona is a better team than they were in 2010, UCLA has a lot of talent and Cal is as good as they were given the fact that they don’t have a Patrick Christopher. They don’t have a swing man who can step out on the wing and drill 22 foot shots all night long.

That 2010 team could just light it up on the outside, this 2014 Cal team is not as skillful a shooting team as the 2010 team was.

Michael Duca and Morris Phillips cover the Cal Bears for Sportstalk Radio