Scott Rich

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...

The opposition takes a lot of one-on-one possessions.

Opponents are not getting many assists against the Cal Golden Bears.

They're assisting on just 56% of their main field goals.

Again, that's one of the lowest rates in the country.

But at the same time, they're sort of forcing these one-on-one two-point baskets.

Cal's good at forcing the opposition to take two-point baskets, go one-on-one as manifesting in this low assist rate.

So that's what they're doing on the defensive end of the floor.

On the offensive end of the floor, they're very fundamentally sound.

They're a team that turns it over very, very rarely, only a 14.4% turnover percentage.

That's one of the top 35 rates in the country.

And they shoot it well across the board.

They shoot 36% from three.