California completed their weekend sweep of the Oregon schools, and stayed unbeaten at home this season in 16 games, by going wire to wire for an 83-71 win over Oregon State.
There were a couple of stats that defined this afternoon's game at Haas Pavilion, and a couple more that built upon them.
First and most important, when Oregon State doesn't get beat on the boards, they win. Doesn't matter who the oppositions is, or where the game is. When they don't, they lose more than 2/3 of the time. Thursday's exceedingly rare Beaver win in Palo Alto was a case of the former, as Oregon State won in large part because they had a +9 advantage on the boards, Today was one of the latter, as the Bears out-boarded the Beavers 39-31.