BERKELEY, Calif. ÷ Warm her up because the fat lady is about to explode.

Even though it's going to take a win tomorrow afternoon against Stanford to clinch the Pac-10 Conference title, by the talk of the Wildcat players in the locker room after the game, it's almost said and done.

They have one thing on their mind and that's revenge against the Cardinal after it gave Arizona its lone blemish on its conference record. Plus a nice new piece of jewelry wouldn't be so bad either.

"We do remember what happened at our house and we're going to be focused," said sophomore center Channing Frye about tomorrow's 5 p.m. MST tip-off in Maples Pavilion.

It's that focus that has been the difference for the nation's No. 1 team lately.

There haven't been the slow starts, the Wildcats haven't played down to their opponents and they have shown that killer instinct that many thought they were lacking from day one.

"This is the fourth consecutive game that we have played the best we have all season long," UA head coach Lute Olson said.

And Arizona did so against a team that had won 17 straight games at home.

Even though the talk about candy was kept to a minimum by the Cal student section, the Wildcats were able to thrive off the signs and chants for the second straight game.

"I think towards the end of the game they got us going by chanting things and saying things," senior guard Jason Gardner. "I think it really got us going."

"They were killing Jason and Luke (Walton)," freshman Andre Iguodala said. "I like playing on the road more than at home though because the crowd is just something else that makes you play harder."

As the game got more intense and Cal cut the Arizona lead to three points with under 12 minutes remaining in the game, the Wildcats strapped down and started to play better on-the-ball defense.

The extra defensive pressure led to steals that UA quickly turned into baskets.

"We have been a team of runs all year long," Olson said. "When Cal made a couple of good runs at us we did a good job of answering."

Also down the stretch Arizona converted from the foul line ÷ showing that the team was not bothered by the balloons that were handed out to the students at the half. Free throws were one of the main culprits in UA's loss to Stanford, where it only made 14 of 26 shots.

Last night against the Golden Bears, the Wildcats made 26 of 32 foul shots and made 10 of 11 as the game was coming to a close.

"When you take a look at our percentages it's pretty hard to beat us," Olson said. "When they got close to us we stepped up and hit our free throws."

It's going to be the things like free-throw shooting in the end that will tell how far this Arizona team can go. It showed last night it could enter a tough environment and control the tempo of the game for nearly the entire 40 minutes against a team that rarely losses at home.

But it's only going to get tougher.

With the conference title nearly in Arizona's grasp and needing only a win tomorrow to claim it, the team will most likely enter the NCAA Tournament with the No.1 seed and a huge target on its back.

"It feels good right now," Walton said.