Despite a career-high 32 points from David Crisp, the Huskies fall flat in a 76-73 defeat at California in a battle of the first and last-place teams in the Pac-12.
BERKELY, Calif. – Well, that was unexpected.
The 25th-ranked Huskies were planning a party on the Haas Pavilion floor to celebrate its first outright Pac-12 regular-season title in seven years.
Instead, it was the California Golden Bears dancing and dousing their beleaguered coach with water after a stunning 76-73 victory and their first win since Dec. 21, which snapped a 16-game losing streak.
Cal (6-22, 1-15), which avoided becoming the first Pac-12 team to finish with a winless record, had plenty of reasons to cheer because it was by far the biggest victory for coach Wyking Jones during a two-year tenure that’s included a school record for defeats and calls for his job.