Game Day, UW v Cal

UW 85
Cal 88
Triple OT

I am absolutely sick about this game. Talk about an opportunity lost. For a game that went into triple overtime, there were only two lead changes. Yes you read that right, only TWO lead changes over 55 minutes of ball.
Cal led 1-0 then Cal took the lead 86-85 at the end of the third OT.

UW controlled the entire game. Including an 11 point lead with 6 minutes in regulation. And a sure fire lead pipe cinch lead at the end of the second OT. That is until Isiah Thomas channeled his inner Mike Jensen and made one of the dumbest plays of the college season. Not the UW season, but the entire NCAA year. Up by three with 10 seconds to play, Cal had to take a three pointer. UW played excellent defense and forced Cal to take a fade away three pointer with 2 seconds left that missed so badly it actually grazed the side of the backboard. The rebound was thus deflected right to a Cal player with 1.2 seconds left. Not enough time to run out and try another three. Game over, UW wins, lets go home and enjoy our first top 25 ranking in years. BUT, for some unknown reason, Isiah Thomas did the only thing that would have kept Cal in the game. He fouled the Cal player that got the rebound as he was putting in the consolation layup that would have brought the game to a one point UW margin with 1.2 seconds to play.

The Cal player hit the free throw, inexplicably sending it to a third OT. Where again UW had the lead the entire OT but missed free throws and some tired legs finally doomed the UW. To sum up, in a 55 minute game Cal had the lead for a total of about 30 seconds and won. I'm sick about this.

Here's another picture from my camera phone. I'm not thrilled with the quality of the pics. But I didn't bring the better camera. The crowd tonight was unreal, we are back to crowd levels approaching the Brandon Roy teams. Speaking of which, our next home game is a week from Thursday where they are retiring B-Roy's jersey. There is the one game that we will be early for.

Tonight's game was on Fox Sports. And because I must be secretly a sadist I am currently watching the replay of this game as I type this. I'm curious how they are going to fit a triple OT game into a two hour replay.
Oh and WSU just edged by Stanford with a super close come from behind victory, so the Pac-10 is confirmed as wide open. Big win for the Cougs, I honestly think that's a decent upset. I was impressed by Stanford.
2-1 in the Pac-10