Moments after it was revealed that seventh-seeded California would face 10th-seeded Virginia in the first round of the women's NCAA Tournament, Cavaliers coach Joanne Boyle got a text message from her Cal counterpart, Lindsay Gottlieb.
"They love these storylines, right," Gottlieb wrote.
The storyline for Friday's Cal-Virginia game in Columbia, S.C., is obvious.
Boyle was Cal's head coach from 2005 to 2011, taking the Bears to the NCAA Tournament four times. When Boyle left Berkeley to become Virginia's head coach following the 2010-11 season, her successor at Cal was Gottlieb, who had been an assistant under Boyle at Richmond and Cal.