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It’s a small very rowdy crowd here. The band’s been very entertaining as usual.

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New game! Let's gooooooo!

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Cal swtching to the press feels like it increased our overall defensive intensity. Showing lots of life.

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Bears within 4, two free throws coming for SMu

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Cal is giving big minutes to players that don’t even belong on a Power Conference roster.

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Cal using full court press, lots of energy on D. Better drives into paint, pulled as close as 7; now down by 10. SMU still shooting 60%, Bears improved to just under 40%

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Looks like we're trying everything.

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Starting very slow, contested shots and two nice open threes by SMU, shooting 57%; down 10-2

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I’m in DC this week. Just got back from the Maryland/MSU game. The environment couldn’t have been more different than this one.

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This is what happens when your conference implodes. Are people going to care about a game against SMU.

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If our team was good, that wouldn’t matter as much. Mike Williams and Knowlton drained every last drip of life blood out of the program over a sustained period. Fans will wait it out until we really show them something. By contrast, Maryland fills an 18K on campus arena at 6pm on a weekday.

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Jim Knowlton rendering the program patently irrelevant with the Mark Fox disaster probably has as much to do with it. SMU is likely Tournament bound, but the previous regime literally killed the program. Students don’t give a crap about basketball…

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When there are giveaways they show up though.

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It’s like the San Francisco Giants at Oracle!

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