Cal basketball

The Supreme Court of the United States, the British Monarchy and Cal basketball’s losing streak: It was actually the last of the three — not the institutions that are designed as bastions of stability in a fickle, volatile society — that remained constant over the last nine-and-a-half months.

With its total losses now reaching double digits, Cal is no longer just battling talent and skill gaps, but morale ones too.

If the opponents that Cal has faced have been above its paygrade, the Trojans are on a different level entirely.

The gulf in historical success between the two teams cannot be understated. Following Tuesday’s game, however, the Tritons have fully established recent superiority over the Bears.

On Thursday, senior forward Andre Kelly declared for the 2022 NBA Draft and entered the transfer portal. He hasn’t, however, ruled out a return to Cal.

Gene “The Dream” Ransom, one of the most successful basketball players to come out of UC Berkeley, was killed Feb. 4 while driving on I-880 in Oakland. 

He is a different Tony Gonzalez to the one who fumbled the football in the Big Game back in 1995. But perhaps what has changed most about Gonzalez since his early college years is his relationship with fear.

With an offensive force such as Matt Bradley added to its arsenal, San Diego State is poised to make a deep postseason run next season.

Bradley sits at No. 21 on Cal’s all-time scoring list and has provided a sense of optimism for fans who haven’t seen the Bears sport a winning record since the 2016-17 season.