It was supposed to be a battle. It was supposed to be physical. It was supposed to be close. Two out of three ain't bad.

Tonight, the Cal basketball team held on to its perch atop the Pac-10 with a resounding 93-81 win over second-place Washington in a knock-down, drag-out brawl at Haas Pavilion. But as physical as the Huskies can be, the man of the night, Jerome Randle, wasn't about to be intimidated.

"I'm a man just like he's a man," Randle said of his counterpart, Washington's Isaiah Thomas. "And I'm not going to let anyone push me around."

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