Cal announced nine hours before tipoff that its game vs. USC at Haas Pavilion was a sellout
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00:00 The headline for tonight's Cal USC game at Haas Pavilion was written nine hours before
00:08 tip-off.
00:09 That's when Cal made the fairly stunning announcement that the game was a complete
00:13 sellout.
00:14 Now, for any of you paying attention to Cal basketball the last half dozen years, this
00:20 is almost incomprehensible.
00:22 The team was totally unwatchable for most of that time, but they have turned things
00:28 around under Mark Madsen.
00:30 Enthusiasm has returned.
00:31 Fans are returning.
00:33 The team is competitive.
00:36 They may or may not get to 500 this year, but they have made huge headway.
00:41 People obviously are appreciating it, and Cal is doing a ton of marketing as well, which
00:44 we haven't seen on this level for quite a while.
00:48 But to have a sellout for USC, UCLA's coming on Saturday afternoon, I presume there's going
00:54 to be a similar response.
00:56 It's a rather remarkable turnaround for a program that was pretty much in the gutter
01:00 for a while.
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