It was a really special 24 hours for Cal coach Lindsay Gottlieb.
Her longtime boyfriend, Patrick Martin, proposed to her Sunday, and then her Bears earned one of the final spots in the women's NCAA tournament Monday.
"It definitely was a great stretch," Gottlieb said in a phone interview late Monday night.
Gottlieb spent most of Sunday crunching numbers with Martin on whether her team would make it off the bubble and into the NCAA tournament.
"He's a big math and analytics nerd, gotten way into the basketball stuff," she said. "He built his own analytical model to crunch the numbers of the bubble teams, and he had us in.