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Recap: Cal offense stymied by Stanford defense in decisive defeat

In Cal’s Pac-12 opener, the Bears only managed to score 52 points in a 68 possession game. That’s bad.

Worse? What happened on the court was more or less exactly what everybody expected.

See, Stanford has an excellent defense, probably the 2nd best Cal has faced so far this year. And in every other encounter with good defenses (and a few encounters with middling defenses) the Bears have wilted. So we’re at a point where Cal can put up .76 points/possession, which sadly is only the 3rd least efficient performance so far this season, and not even feel like the performance was a fluky outlier.