by Morris Phillips

AP photo: SC’s Jullian Jacobs center shoots between Cal’s Tyrone Wallace (3) and Sam Singer right last Saturday

BERKELEY–The Cal Bears is an obvious NCAA qualifier and they have an outside chance of winning the Pac 12 if they can win twice in Arizona. What Cal needed to happen this past weekend was for Arizona to win at Utah and that did not happen and the Wildcats Kaleb Tarczewski their seven foot center left early in the first half and the Wildcats fell behind in the first half.

Then Tarczewski was back on the floor to start the second half, they made a surge and got back into the game but couldn’t sustain it down the stretch. The key there had Cal had Arizona winning at Utah then the race for the top spot would a lot closer. Utah would have that critical sixth loss.

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