Cal, Stanford men’s basketball to battle for eyeballs amid strange planning

In their first taste of rivalry weekend this season, the Bears and Cardinal will be competing against one another not only for points, but also for eyeballs.
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In their first taste of rivalry weekend this season, the Bears and Cardinal will be competing against one another not only for points, but also for eyeballs.
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Those three games may have come at home, but if conference play has taught us anything, it’s that home-court victories are far from a guarantee. If Porter can return to pre-injury form, these Trojans will really be a problem.
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It doesn’t matter that this game was on the road. Whether this game was played in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Santa Ana or Santa Barbara, the Trojans should have won this game. And they did not. Barring a complete 180, USC will remain near the bottom of these power rankings for the foreseeable future.
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All optimism was thrown in an incinerator when UCLA’s coughed up a 12-point lead at home to Belmont.
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Stanford’s projected struggles will not stem from a lack of promising returners or an uninspiring recruiting class, but rather from the gravity of the program’s departures.
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And as McNeill and Harris-Dyson faded, so did the rest of the offense. Cal shot an abysmal 24.4 percent from the field in the second half, a hideous mark even by its standards. Lee was held scoreless until the waning minutes of the ballgame, only to foul out moments later.
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The Cal men’s basketball team couldn’t complete the series sweep of Stanford in a bitter 77-73 loss at Haas Pavilion, but for a team preparing for the long-term future, Sunday night generated plenty of excitement.
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Cal found itself in the midst of a historically bad skid after the electrifying victory, dropping its next nine games by an average margin of 16.6 points.
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Travis makes his money from inside the 3-point line, converting 57.1 percent of his 2-pointers this season, but he’s begun to experiment from beyond the arc. After attempting only one 3-pointer in his first three seasons with the Cardinal — one that he missed, at that — he’s jacked up 27 this season, or about two per game.
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