01-14-2022, 04:11 PM
ESPN's basketball power index has UW with a 51% probability of winning. That feels about right to me, especially given the extra burden of the constant travel and lack of significant rest and recovery between games.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)