December 30, 2017. On that date two seasons ago, the California Golden Bears men’s basketball team put together an improbable (and let’s face it, lucky) 18-4 run in the final 3:29 at Maples Pavilion to beat stanford in their Pac-12 opener. That was the last time Cal Men’s Basketball was over .500 in the Conference of Champions. That team would go on to lose their next 9 contests, and finish with 2 conference wins that year. They would top that with a whopping 3 wins in 2019.
742 days, and 38 Pac-12 games later, with 8 seconds left in a tied overtime game against the Washington Huskies, Matt Bradley had the ball isolated at the top of the key.