(Non-Topic) Pac-10 Women's Basketball Tournament

[Monty'sBiggestFan]

It nearly March, which means its nearly time for March Madness which OF COURSE means its nearly time for the conference tournaments that help decide NCAA tournament berths.

The Pac-10 tournament is roughly two weeks away...March 2nd-5th in San Jose at the HP Pavillion.

All session tickets are on sale now through TicketMaster and the various schools' ticket offices. I will extremely likely be heading down to San Jose for day two of the tournament Saturday March 3rd, which is a two session day totalling 4 games. It appears that tickets for individual sessions will be going on sale on this Tuesday. If folks are interested in making a field trip of it (which I had suggested a while back) then let me know. I did not renew my season tickets for the tournament this year sadly because I'm not going to be able to take full advantage of an all session pass, but I do still have a ticket rep who I will try to hit up for a group rate on tickets. We'll probably need at least 10 people to qualify if they sell those, which I'm sure they do, ticket prices for each session currently appear to be $25 each.

As the standings are right now, here are the matchups we'll see that Saturday:

Session 1.

#3 - Cal vs #6 Oregon 11am tip

#7 UCLA or #10 Washington St. vs #2 Arizona St. 1:15 tip (approx)



Session 2.

#8 Arizona or #9 Oregon St. vs. #1 Stanford 5pm tip

#4 USC vs. #5 Washington 7:15 tip (approx)

 

[6th]

<sigh> Trying to figure out how I can come up with $50 for the two sessions plus gas money plus food for the entire day. I would love to go, but don't think I can swing it.

I hate being broke.

 

[Monty'sBiggestFan]

Meet for Long Day of Basketball Watching?

I'm heading to Players on Sunday (March 4th) by about 11 to take in the televising of conference semi finals and finals to get ready for March Madness. If you are interested in joining me, stop on by. Here's the schedule of games I'm going there to watch on hopefully the big screen and neighboring TVs. Lots of upsets on Saturday that may affect the NCAA tournament seedings and who gets assigned to the Fresno regional bracket and of course the obligatory arm chair scouting for potential Monarchs

ACC Tourney Final North Carolina v North Carolina St. (gm tips @ 10 but I can't get to Players until 11) - winner receives automatic bid. FSN

Pac10 Tourney Semi Final game 1 - California v Arizona St 2pm FSN

Pac10 Tourney Semi Final game 2 - Stanford v USC 4pm (approx)FSN

SEC Tourney Final - LSU v Vanderbilt 4:30pm ESPN2
winner receives automatic bid

(other possible games we can squeeze in...)

Big East Quarter Final game 2 South Florida v UConn 12pm ESPU

Big East Quarter Final game 3 DePaul v Rutgers 3pm ESPNU

Big 10 Tourney Semi Final game 1 - Penn St v Ohio State 4:25pm CSN-Chi

Big 10 Tourney Semi Final game 2 - Michigan St v Purdue 2pm CSN-Chi

Big East Quarter Final game 4 - Pittsburgh v Marquette 5pm ESPNU