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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

A Pac (10) mentality

The field for the Trenton Regional is halfway set.

Arizona State, written off by some as a long shot to emerge out of the first two rounds after a season-ending injury suffered by its leading scorer Dymond Symon, punched its ticket to Trenton by topping third-seeded Florida State 63-58.

Briann January, who doesn't get as much ink as some of the nation's other top point guards, is still a dynamic player who could very well be earning a WNBA paycheck in a few months. For those people who were clamoring for a UConn/Tennessee meeting in Trenton, that won't be happening but if UConn gets by Florida tonight, they can take solace in the fact that Arizona State's Sybil Dosty - the Pac-10 Conference's Scholar-Athlete of the Year - began her college career playing for the Lady Volunteers. Dosty, a 6-foot-3 senior center, played for Tennessee in the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons and led the team in field-goal percentage both times.

Cal guaranteed that the Trenton field will have a decidedly Pac-10 flavor with an emphatic 99-73 humbling of Virginia Monday night. Cal's Big Three of Ashley Walker, Devanei Hampton and Alexis Gray-Lawson led the way, combining for 76 points. Point guard Lauren Greif chipped in with 10 points and nine assists as Cal advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time.

When the brackets came out, I said I believed Cal posed more potential matchup problems than any other team because of its inside tandem of Walker and Hampton as well as the guard play of Gray-Lawson. The trio has played a lot of basketball and I think the Pac-10 - or at least its premier teams - showed how good they are by going 3 for 3 in second-round games on Monday.

The final two spots in the Trenton regional semifinals will be determined tonight when UConn plays Florida and Texas A&M meets Minnesota.

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