New basketball coach Lou Campanelli promised fans the Bears would end their 52-game losing streak to UCLA, and he delivered
As the Pac-12 Conference era comes to a close after more than a century, we count down the Top 50 moments involving Cal athletics.In April 1985 at a news conference introducing him as Cal’s new basketball coach, Lou Campanelli was asked if he expected the Bears could end their embarrassing 52-game losing streak to UCLA. "I looked at that guy,” Campanelli told the San Francisco Chronicle years later, “and said, 'That streak will end the first time we play ‘em. And the place erupted.
And the Bears never beat them. Cal was 0-6 against UCLA teams featuring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, although they got to overtime in one of those. They were also winless in six tries against Bill Walton’s squads, losing by an average of more than 26 points. "It was the oddest feeling. I never had a feeling like that in any game, that I knew we were going to win,” forward Dave Butler, who had 23 points and 10 rebounds, told the Chronicle. “I never had any doubt.”
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