Pac-12 Basketball: Oregon, UCLA continues to stay on top of power rankings

11. California Bears

The 11th place team in my power rankings is Cal. The Bears are currently 11th in the conference. Cal is 6-7 on the year and 1-5 in the conference. They are without their best player Matt Bradley who currently has an ankle injury. Cal is coming off a 1-1 homestand to the Washington schools where they lost to Washington State 71-60 and beat Washington 84-78.

Mark Fox has done a really good job at Cal so far. The Bears are a well-coached group who definitely don’t beat themselves. They were the worst Power 5 team in college basketball under their old coach Wyking Jones ranking 241st in Kenpom and with a defense in the 300’s. But have done a lot better over the last two years ranking 153rd in 2020 and 147 this year overall.

With looking at the rest of the roster, Grant Anticevich is a nice player who is really fundamentally sound. He just came back from injury against Washington State. Andre Kelly is a solid big who has good touch from the mid-range and can bang inside and Joel Berry is a quick tough guard.

This Cal team plays really tough and physical but outside of Bradley just doesn’t have a whole lot of talent. I think it’s going to be hard for Cal to be above 10th in the standings. With Bradley out of the lineup, I don’t think they are going to be able to win enough games to move up the standings.

Washington is the only team in the league without a conference win. Right now they are the 12th team in my power rankings.