Cal is on the bubble given their track record as Cuonzo Martin has done a great deal with this team to his credit from coming over from Tennessee where he basically felt under appreciated after leading his team to quite a run.

Call it racism or otherwise but he decided to make the move out West. Cal is a 17-12 team that has plenty of work to do to make a strong case for the Tournament as this is a team that had 21 wins last year under Coach Montgomery and now sit at 17 wins and need a statement win. Currently their big wins are against Syracuse and that's about it. But Cal is playing better. They were 1-6 in conference play before reeling off 5 straight wins including over UCLA and are 6-3 in their last 9 conference contests. I can see California really hanging tough here and getting up for this contest. Martin has a great way of coaching his kids up with motivation and getting them ready for this battle and I think 19 points is way too high.