by Michael Duca and Morris Phillips

BERKELEY–The Cal Bears have lost three of their last four games going into the final two home games this season, Cal is just not playing well, and then there’s the three loses all of them by double digits. The Bears lost in Arizona on Wednesday by 25 points. Cal is just not playing well and of all of the final eight games they had Arizona State on Saturday night had to be the one that stuck out.

The Sun Devils resume to the NCAA Tournament is so similar to what Cal did, Saturday night was a game to win and Cal came up by 18 points. It’s frustrating for Cal and the NCAA Tournament is obviously looking and most people are expecting that Cal will be in but they could easily slip right back out.

The other issue is that Cal’s Justin Cobbs hasn’t been winning his indvidual match ups, Wednesday was a great game for Arizona’s Nick Johnson who scored 22 points to lead the Wild Cats and then on Saturday with Arizona State’s Jahii Carson the point guard who is being declared for the NBA draft and is a really good player. Make no mistake Justin Cobbs is just as good as those guys are but right now he has to play up to par.

It’s been a frustrating season for Cal in as such that it will be up and down, there’s just so much youth on the roster with six freshman, a couple of sophomores, and the team doesn’t score consistently. At times they struggle with their offense, and other times they’ve been incredible in terms of scoring and winning big games.

Overall this has been a wonderful season for Cal given who they have coming back and who they brought in, that could change a lot if they don’t come home next week and win both of their remaining home games left against Utah and Colorado.

The Arizona Wild Cats for the last three weeks have been playing great basketball and after they lost that one point game to Cal they’ve stepped right back into it, the Wild Cats just worked their way to the rim offensively so that was not a bad loss per se for the Bears. The fact they lost by 26 points is frustrating they should have been more competitive and at some point your in the game. When they played at ASU on Saturday they lost by 18 points and the reason why they did is because their just not playing well.

So when Cal faces Utah and Colorado for the last two games of the season at Haas they should be beatable, Colorado is still playing without their key player Spencer Dinwiddie who was lost on January 20th. Meanwhile the Utah Utes have really had Cal’s number over the last couple of seasons. You would imagine that they would not be showing up Cal at Haas and it would be a surprise if they did although Utah is an emerging team.

Morris Phillips and Michael Duca are filling in for Michelle Richardson this week for the NCAA report