Scott Rich

You know how vital and important it is to have that big, to have that body and practice, you know,

We've benefited from that, from having that type of guy on our roster for years.

It's a shame we're going to lose that the rest of the season.

You know, I've talked on this show in my writing before about how the net they've they've given us all the ingredients to how the net is calculated, but not told us the recipe.

So we know what goes in, but we don't know what the weighing is.

And one of the things that supposedly in the secret sauce of the net is it's a little bit more results oriented than the analytical rankings like the Ken Palms and the Torvix and things of that nature.

So it sort of makes sense that a team that's 13-4 and has won games is going to be higher in the net than they would in some of these analytic ratings.

Just like Duke is higher in the net than they currently are in Ken Pomentorvik because it may not always be pretty as we've bemoaned over and over again, but Duke is getting the win.

Uh, one of the things when you talk about this Cal team, if you remember watching them last year, throw that out the window.

This is essentially a entirely new Cal team.

The only returnee who played non-trivial minutes for them last year is their starting center.

Uh,

Lee Dort, they're 247th in the country in Ken Palm's continuity metric.

So this is a team that is comprised of transfers.

This is an almost entirely new roster that Mark Madsen has had to put together, which makes their success all the more impressive.

The fact that Mark Madsen is doing what he's doing out in Cal, given the challenges he's had to face, is pretty impressive.

They're...

They're a little bit unique in that they're a slow team, both offensively, but particularly defensively.

They force opponents into taking long possessions, nearly 18 seconds of possession, which is, again, that's one of the slowest rates in the country.

And how this manifests is...