We’re all ready for conference play for the 2016–17 California Golden Bears Men’s Basketball season and Jon Wilner is here to project the conference standings: Cal will be the best... of the worst half of the conference.
7. Cal: A difficult team to project because of heavy reliance on two newcomers: freshman guard Charlie Moore and transfer guard Grant Mullins (Columbia). Consistent production from either during the conference grind—to complement Ivan Rabb and wing Jabari Bird—could make the Bears relevant.
Weird grammar by Wilner, who decided to use both an en dash and an em dash—and to encapsulate both with spaces.