When the third seed and 24th ranked California raced out to an early 14-5 lead over sixth seed Oregon State, and especially once the Bears extended that to a 17-5 advantage, most folks watching the 4th and final quarterfinal contest of the Pac-12 Tournament generally, and not necessarily unreasonably, assumed the Beavers had run out of gas, luck, and pretty much everything, and it was going to be a blowout. Given that it was already very late at night, most probably called it good and went to sleep.
That proved a premature, not to mention incorrect, conclusion to come to, and Oregon State answered with a 14-4 run to get right back into it, pulling within 21-19 on Langston Morris-Walker's 3 pointer with still over 6 1/2 minutes left in the first half.