An inherent challenge in women’s basketball: contextualizing early season performances.
Each of Cal’s four wins have pretty much followed a similar pattern, wherein the Bears start the game a bit flat with turnover issues, gradually work their way into a rhythm, then pull away for a solid-but-not-dominating victory. Cal’s average margin of victory has been 12 points despite the fact that the Bears have trailed at some point in the 2nd half in every game of the season.
But how good exactly are Houston, Penn State, BYU, and Pacific? Houston was a WNIT team returning most of their production.