bearister said:

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Yes, a loss to Athletes in Action is more than I can bear.

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Wow, AIA? That is OLD SCHOOL! I remember those days well.

BerkeleyBAT said:

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Kansas State on November 11
Butler on December 10

https://calbears.com/news/2022/7/14/mens-basketball-cal-announces-home-and-home-series-with-kansas-state-butler.aspx

Both at home, with away games in later years. It's nice to have some home games against power conference teams. I certainly prefer it to the usual Big Sky/WAC type opponents. At least if we manage to win, we get some credit this way.

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Also gives a better barometer of progress than playing CSU Monterey Bay or some such team.

calumnus said:

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UCSD went 13-16 last year and are transitioning from D2 to D1 status over the next 3 years so officially they came in last in the Big West, but unofficially they went 7-11 which would have been 8th behind UC Davis and ahead of Northridge. Their 80-67 road win at Cal was one of 4 road wins last year. It was by far their biggest win of all time. The scary thing watching the game was they just looked better than us.

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I had suggested if the Pac implodes we could join a league comprised mostly of other UC campuses. Now I'm not so sure.

stu said:

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calumnus said:

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UCSD went 13-16 last year and are transitioning from D2 to D1 status over the next 3 years so officially they came in last in the Big West, but unofficially they went 7-11 which would have been 8th behind UC Davis and ahead of Northridge. Their 80-67 road win at Cal was one of 4 road wins last year. It was by far their biggest win of all time. The scary thing watching the game was they just looked better than us.

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I had suggested if the Pac implodes we could join a league comprised mostly of other UC campuses. Now I'm not so sure.

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Yah we would lose to:

UCSB
UC Irvine
UCSD
UC Riverside
UC Davis
UCLA

Probably could take UC Merced to overtime. We could probably beat UCSF's intramural team and UC Santa Cruz' Banana Slug club team.

Its interesting because I and my friends play IM basketball at Cal. A couple of my friends were pretty good in high school. Not college-level type of athletes, but solid high school starters who put up decent points on an above-average team.

In the RSF, they'd often play with some of the official team's practice guys (idk if that's what theyre called). My friends smoked them in a shootaround and in a 4v4 nearly won. The real difference was the practice guys were much taller & built. In any case I just found it odd that a P5 D1 team's practice members were so close to average high school level players who only played IM for fun.

I really don't know how well our team would do in a conference of UCs lol

eastcoastcal said:

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Its interesting because I and my friends play IM basketball at Cal. A couple of my friends were pretty good in high school. Not college-level type of athletes, but solid high school starters who put up decent points on an above-average team.

In the RSF, they'd often play with some of the official team's practice guys (idk if that's what theyre called). My friends smoked them in a shootaround and in a 4v4 nearly won. The real difference was the practice guys were much taller & built. In any case I just found it odd that a P5 D1 team's practice members were so close to average high school level players who only played IM for fun.

I really don't know how well our team would do in a conference of UCs lol

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California schools last year according to Sagarin:
1. UCLA
2. St. Mary's
3. USC
4. San Diego St.
5. USF
6. Santa Clara
7. Fresno State
8. Stanford
9. Cal
10. UC Irvine
11. UC Santa Barbara
12. UC Riverside
13. Cal Stare Fullerton
14. Loyola Marymount
15. Long Beach State
16. UC Davis
17. San Diego
18. Cal Baptist
19. Pepperdine
20. Cal State Bakersfield
21. UC San Diego
22. Pacific
23. San Jose State
24. Cal Poly SLO
25. Sac State
26. Cal State Northridge

eastcoastcal said:

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Its interesting because I and my friends play IM basketball at Cal. A couple of my friends were pretty good in high school. Not college-level type of athletes, but solid high school starters who put up decent points on an above-average team.

In the RSF, they'd often play with some of the official team's practice guys (idk if that's what theyre called). My friends smoked them in a shootaround and in a 4v4 nearly won. The real difference was the practice guys were much taller & built. In any case I just found it odd that a P5 D1 team's practice members were so close to average high school level players who only played IM for fun.

I really don't know how well our team would do in a conference of UCs lol

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I once played a pickup game at the RSF when Arizona was in town playing at Cal.

Sean Rooks was out there.

I'm only 6 feet tall but I took it hard to the rim and dunked on him. He said "Settle down, little man. Don't make me hurt you!"

Okay, I made that entire last part up but Sean Rooks did play and he was a man among boys out there.

Anyway, a practice squad isn't supposed to be composed of Div 1 players. They are guys that, like your friends, played high school ball. It's not surprising that "pretty good high school players from above average teams" could hang with them in street ball.

That makes sense. I only mentioned it because I've visited my friends at Duke/UCLA/Villanova/Syracuse/Florida/etc and we've usually hit the courts and I've seen some of their practice guys and they were IMPRESSIVE. As in no chance we'd come close to beating them in a friendly matchup. Just was a little surprised at Cal's level

eastcoastcal said:

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That makes sense. I only mentioned it because I've visited my friends at Duke/UCLA/Villanova/Syracuse/Florida/etc and we've usually hit the courts and I've seen some of their practice guys and they were IMPRESSIVE. As in no chance we'd come close to beating them in a friendly matchup. Just was a little surprised at Cal's level

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Cal's starters are Duke's practice squad