Pete Cutino squares off against Mike Macdonald for the penultimate spot in the CGB Hall of Fame Elite Eight.
Results from the previous round
Sixteenth-seeded Pete Cutino prevailed over ninth-seeded Jerott Willard, 74-20, while fourth-seeded Mike Macdonald routed twelfth-seeded Scott Fujita, 137-32.
(16) Pete Cutino
If nominations were solicited for a Mt. Rushmore for California coaching legends, names like Pete Newell, Andy Smith, Pappy Waldorf, and Teri McKeever would be among the first. However, any list of nominees would be incomplete without water polo coach Pete Cutino.
The numbers are staggering: in twenty-five years as the head coach of Cal's Men's Water Polo program (1963-1988), Cutino won eight.