Want To Watch Pac-10 Basketball Today? Get Up Early And Head To A Bar

Then plan on staying for a really long time.

↵It’s the opening Saturday of Pac-10 play, and eight teams are getting ready to play their second game of the conference schedule. Cal and Stanford get set to open up their league slates against each other at 4 p.m. Pacific in Berkeley.

↵I know the league has been a bit down this year, but its TV schedule today is something new commissioner Larry Scott should be firing people and tearing up contracts over.

↵Your best shot at watching a Pac-10 game today is a CBS regional telecast between Arizona at UCLA, that tips off at 10 a.m. Pacific. Think about that. That’s 22 combined Final Four appearances relegated to timeslot befitting a gimmicky November marathon.

↵You’ll need a good satellite package or accommodating sports bar to find the other four games. The two games between the Oregon schools and Washington ones are on assorted regional FSNs (but not the national one), as is Arizona at USC. If your cable company offers it, you can catch all of these on something called Fox College Sports Pacific.

↵However, if you want to see the Cardinal and Golden Bears, it’s on CSN California, and nothing else.