"We’ve lost a lot of close games against really good teams, so to be able to say in this particular Pac-12 season where you’ve got the fourth-[sic], sixth-, seventh-ranked teams in the country," he said. "There’s some national buzz, which typically doesn’t happen with the little bit of the East Coast bias, so I would take great pride in saying we finished fourth in this particular season, and we’re going to keep our fingers crossed for postseason."
At the moment, Utah and Cal are tied for fourth with 10-7 records and have split the season series. Because they haven’t beaten any of the teams ahead of them, the tiebreakers drift down pretty far.