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Cal Women's Basketball Off to First-Ever NCAA Final Four Tournament
The Golden Bears' game against University of Louisville on Sunday is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. PDT and will be broadcast live on ESPN.
By Bay City News
The University of California at Berkeley women's basketball team is leaving today for its first NCAA Tournament Final Four trip in the school's history.
UC Berkeley is giving the team a send-off party at Haas Pavilion at 10:30 a.m. today with performances by the school band and spirit squads, and a speech by head coach Lindsay Gottlieb.
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The No. 2-seeded Golden Bears will then depart from Oakland International Airport at 12:30 p.m. for New Orleans, where they will play the No. 5 University of Louisville in the Final Four game on Sunday.
Cal advanced to its first Final Four with a 65-62 overtime victory on Monday over the University of Georgia, which upset No. 1 Stanford University last weekend.
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The Golden Bears' game on Sunday is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. PDT and will be broadcast live on ESPN.
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