Big C said:

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Today's victory in Eugene has me scanning my memory banks for our greatest upsets of all time. That I can't even think of too many says a lot (though if we had been really good, they would have just been wins, not upsets).

I'm sure I am forgetting a lot of them but let's see...

First one I think about is our Justin Cobbs victory over #1 Arizona. But we had a much better team that year than now. OTOH, Arizona was a lot better than today's Lame Ducks.

Second one that comes to mind is the '86 win over UCLA to break the streak. Again though, we had a good team that season. Was that even an upset, or just a streak-breaker?

What other big upsets have we had?

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calumnus said:

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Big C said:

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Today's victory in Eugene has me scanning my memory banks for our greatest upsets of all time. That I can't even think of too many says a lot (though if we had been really good, they would have just been wins, not upsets).

I'm sure I am forgetting a lot of them but let's see...

First one I think about is our Justin Cobbs victory over #1 Arizona. But we had a much better team that year than now. OTOH, Arizona was a lot better than today's Lame Ducks.

Second one that comes to mind is the '86 win over UCLA to break the streak. Again though, we had a good team that season. Was that even an upset, or just a streak-breaker?

What other big upsets have we had?

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Three years ago the Bears under Wyking Jones ended a much discussed record 16 game losing streak by beating #25 UW, the first of three wins to end the season (included beating Stanford) before Jones got fired.

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GoOskie said:

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Cal over Duke? That was such a great game.

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Big C said:

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calumnus said:

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Big C said:

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Today's victory in Eugene has me scanning my memory banks for our greatest upsets of all time. That I can't even think of too many says a lot (though if we had been really good, they would have just been wins, not upsets).

I'm sure I am forgetting a lot of them but let's see...

First one I think about is our Justin Cobbs victory over #1 Arizona. But we had a much better team that year than now. OTOH, Arizona was a lot better than today's Lame Ducks.

Second one that comes to mind is the '86 win over UCLA to break the streak. Again though, we had a good team that season. Was that even an upset, or just a streak-breaker?

What other big upsets have we had?

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Three years ago the Bears under Wyking Jones ended a much discussed record 16 game losing streak by beating #25 UW, the first of three wins to end the season (included beating Stanford) before Jones got fired.

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That's a good one! For a brief period there, I thought we were going to continue with Wyking (who I thought was a good guy on a learning curve), but he had dug himself into too much of a hole . . .

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Chabbear said:

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Beating UCLA in 1986 to stop the streak:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-01-26-sp-273-story.html

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GoCal80 said:

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March 8, 1997 Cal beat a super talented Arizona team 79-77 at the Cow Palace in the last game of the conference season. How talented was that Arizona team? They won their next six games and the national championship.

http://allsportstucson.com/2017/03/08/arizona-wildcats-20-years-ago-today-ua-swept-in-bay-area-after-bitter-loss-to-cal-in-last-regular-season-game/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%E2%80%9397_Arizona_Wildcats_men%27s_basketball_team

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calumnus said:

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Big C said:

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calumnus said:

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Big C said:

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Today's victory in Eugene has me scanning my memory banks for our greatest upsets of all time. That I can't even think of too many says a lot (though if we had been really good, they would have just been wins, not upsets).

I'm sure I am forgetting a lot of them but let's see...

First one I think about is our Justin Cobbs victory over #1 Arizona. But we had a much better team that year than now. OTOH, Arizona was a lot better than today's Lame Ducks.

Second one that comes to mind is the '86 win over UCLA to break the streak. Again though, we had a good team that season. Was that even an upset, or just a streak-breaker?

What other big upsets have we had?

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Three years ago the Bears under Wyking Jones ended a much discussed record 16 game losing streak by beating #25 UW, the first of three wins to end the season (included beating Stanford) before Jones got fired.

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That's a good one! For a brief period there, I thought we were going to continue with Wyking (who I thought was a good guy on a learning curve), but he had dug himself into too much of a hole . . .

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It is the one that this win brings to mind.

Wyking lost all claim to be a good guy in my book when he tried to force guys off the team to open up scholarships just because he made a mistake in offering/signing them

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bearister said:

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calumnus said:

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Big C said:

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calumnus said:

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Big C said:

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Today's victory in Eugene has me scanning my memory banks for our greatest upsets of all time. That I can't even think of too many says a lot (though if we had been really good, they would have just been wins, not upsets).

I'm sure I am forgetting a lot of them but let's see...

First one I think about is our Justin Cobbs victory over #1 Arizona. But we had a much better team that year than now. OTOH, Arizona was a lot better than today's Lame Ducks.

Second one that comes to mind is the '86 win over UCLA to break the streak. Again though, we had a good team that season. Was that even an upset, or just a streak-breaker?

What other big upsets have we had?

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Three years ago the Bears under Wyking Jones ended a much discussed record 16 game losing streak by beating #25 UW, the first of three wins to end the season (included beating Stanford) before Jones got fired.

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That's a good one! For a brief period there, I thought we were going to continue with Wyking (who I thought was a good guy on a learning curve), but he had dug himself into too much of a hole . . .

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It is the one that this win brings to mind.

Wyking lost all claim to be a good guy in my book when he tried to force guys off the team to open up scholarships just because he made a mistake in offering/signing them

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I wrote him off when he got in a dust up with Theo in Maui. If that doesn't qualify as an omen, nothing does.

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