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We have all heard about tough students sections and how they try to get into other players mind. Well Cal has taken it to an all new level.

http://rangelife.typepad.com/rangelife/200...ria_not_vi.html

Victoria, not Victorious

At last Saturday's Cal men's hoops season finale versus USC, Bears boosters pulled a prank that straddles the fuzzy gray line between "Crap-Yer-Pants Hilarious" and "Inexcusably Cruel."

When USC guard Gabe Pruitt took his first trip to the free throw line early in the game, the Cal student section hollered in unison: "VIC-TOR-IA, VIC-TOR-IA," and then yelled out a telephone number. Pruitt glanced back at the crowd in horror and bewilderment before clanking his free throws.

It turns out that a couple of mischeivous little b******* from the Cal student section had been IM'ing with Pruitt all week under the identity of "Victoria," a fictional UCLA hottie, and Pruitt was eagerly anticipating a date with this nubile co-ed back in Westwood after the game. In preparation for the date, Pruitt had handed over his digits, which the Cal student section recited back to him in unison.

Pruitt, a 79% free throw shooter this season, missed both shots after the "VIC-TOR-IA" chants began, and hit only three out of 13 shots the whole game. Cal beat USC by 11 for the season sweep, in part due to the Cal fans' devious psy-ops.

Other perspectives on this prank are here and here.

Also here is the chat log

http://calstuff.blogsome.com/2006/03/10/tw...-conversations/

I didn't want this to get lost in the tournament talk, but if the mods feel it should go in the stickied topic go ahead.

[jokeripa]

I dont find that very 'Inexcusably Cruel', worse things used to happen daily at my school.

[gunnerhkjp]

Man... what a prank.

Its now going to happen in every match he plays in.