Stupid question: What school is California?

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<p>I'm talking about the school that's facing University of Maryland in round 1 of the NCAA tournament today. I'm pretty sure their uniform and court floor say "Cal" in script on them. </p>

<p>Is this what we on CC refer to as Berkeley? If not, who are they? Not UCLA, right? </p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>“Cal” or “California” refers to the UC Berkeley campus.</p>

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<p>UC Berkeley!!</p>

<p>But I have a question. Now, I know nothing about basketball (so I apologize in advance if this is a really stupid question), but I saw on CNN that Obama made a bracket, so I looked at it (for no real reason). The thing is I didn’t see the Cal vs Marland game on the bracket. I looked pretty carefully and am pretty sure it’s not there. Is there some reason? Are they in some different division?</p>

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<p>No Maryland is in the ACC while Cal is in the PAC 10.The tournament committee decides where to put the teams in each area. Both teams are playing in the West division.</p>

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<p>Cal = the original University of California. Now known as University of California, Berkeley.</p>

<p>We played football at Maryland last year and got our butts whipped. Hopefully the basketball matchup will be more competitive.</p>

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Obama picked Maryland to win the game. (West division - bottom left of pic):
<a href=“http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0317/obamasbracket09.jpg[/url]”>http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0317/obamasbracket09.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Lots of people, not just CCers, call it Cal. Most people I know (in southern California) call it Berkeley, though.</p>

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<p>Lol, I didn’t figure this out until like 2 years ago. I had known about “Berkeley” being a nice school, but I’ve been watching sports for years and I figured “Cal” was just some random sports school in California. </p>

<p>It’s pretty cool how they’ve been able to balance a high academic standard with pretty competitive athletics (even though they don’t “balance” it quite as well as the other school across the Bay).</p>

<p>BTW, great win for the Terps today… we whooped up on 'em!</p>

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<p>And over at Stanford University we call them Cal Weenies or Dirty Golden Bears… Give Em the Axe!</p>

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<p>I’ve always wondered why cal is attributed to uc Berkley, is it cause its the highest academic UC campus?</p>

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<p>No, that is not the reason.</p>

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<p>its bc berkeley was the first uc, so it’s denoted as Cal. other school system do the same thing, but I can’t think of an example off the top of my head.</p>

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<p>You see it in almost every state, in the sports world the older or highest profile “university of X” gets the name of the state (whereas "X state university is usually called “X State”)</p>

<p>UC Berkeley -> Cal
UT Austin -> Texas
UIUC -> Illinois
U Nebraska-Lincoln -> Nebraska</p>

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<p>University of Maryland College Park = Maryland :D</p>

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<p>University of Michigan= Michigan= U of M
Michigan State University= Michigan State = MSU</p>

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<p>UC BERKELEY = CALIFORNIA = STATE OF CALIFORNIA FLAGSHIP UNIVERSITy</p>