Apologies for a late recap - I blame east coast bias for putting weekday games during west coast business hours.
After watching Cal arguably outplay (Legends Tournament Champion) St. John’s in a really entertaining game on Monday night with probably their best offensive performance under Wyking Jones, cautious optimism crept through the hardy few Cal fans still engaging with men’s basketball. And with good reason - while the Red Storm are a bit chaotic, they are a pretty fair facsimile of, say, the 4th or 5th best Pac-12 team. Giving them everything they could handle in what was a road game in all but name was encouraging.