These Cats boggle the mind.
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Remember those lowered expectations for Arizona Basketball in 2012? Do you recall coming to terms with the close-but-no-cigar finishes?
Toss it all out with the congealed nacho dip from your Super Bowl party. The Wildcats have brought back optimism in a big way.
Will Cal run over the rest of the Pac-12 down the stretch?
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The second half of the initial Pac-12 conference season is about to get underway.
Because of the extra teams (without extra games) you don’t play all the same teams you played in the first half of the year. As we saw in football, the schedule can play a significant role in who makes a run at the championship.
Which school has the advantage among the contenders over the final nine games? And can the Arizona Wildcats fare better against this Pac-12 co-leader than they did against the other one?
The Pac-10 favorites were upended in Corvallis.
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We thought we understood Pac-10 baseball. We were wrong.
Last week the top two Pac-10 teams in the polls were Arizona State and Stanford. They combined to win one game over the weekend.
Here are the results and rankings after a wild three days on the diamond.
The Ducks are swinging for their first Pac-10 win vs. U-Dub.
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The Arizona Wildcats baseball team wasn’t expecting to be sitting in 6th place at this point, but that’s life when you play in a conference with six ranked teams.
The best remedy is to beat one of them and the Cats have another chance at home.
Elsewhere in the Pac-10, none of the tri-leaders play each other this weekend but one of the teams tied for 4th looks to make a move.
Kevin Parrom helped the Cats stop being ‘dogs.
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Last week, as I wrote about Arizona Basketball moving into 1st place, I used phrases like “…we should enjoy this while it lasts” and “Get swept…and the party’s over.” A reader responded with the following comment:
The expectations you are setting are too low.
Bruce, you are absolutely right.
