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Berkeley Basketball Team Leaves for Final Four
The University of California at Berkeley women's basketball team left yesterday for its first NCAA Tournament Final Four trip in the school's history.
UC Berkeley gave the team a send-off party at Haas Pavilion at 10:30 a.m. yesterday with performances by the school band and spirit squads, and a speech by head coach Lindsay Gottlieb.
The No. 2-seeded Golden Bears then departed 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.
The Golden Bears' game on Sunday is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. PDT and will be broadcast live on ESPN.
