Dammit, Utah. Jakob Poeltl and 5 other players from an 8 player rotation are gone. You weren’t supposed to be good this year.
Dammit Utah, you’re actually a good team this year, but thanks to an indefensibly bad non-conference schedule and one close upset loss to USF, your RPI (78) doesn’t match your actual skill level (Kenpom #43).
Dammit Utah, you stand between Cal and a Pac-12 bye, thus I must hate you even though you’re a pleasantly unremarkable, fundamentally sound basketball team.
Cal and Utah have plenty of similarities. Both teams sit at 6-3. Both are 0-3 against Arizona/UCLA/Oregon and undefeated against everybody else.