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(3) Stanford vs (43) Cal – 10:00 PM EST [Last Year: Cal 0 - 3 Stanford]

Having made a habit of making the extraordinary look ordinary in recent years, Stanford will try one more time to dazzle in the regular season against rivals Cal in the team’s final regular season match. The Card come into this one having won thirty straight Pac-12 matches and having gone unbeaten in sixty-one straight regular season matches, a stretch that will reach three straight unbeaten regular seasons if Stanford avoids defeat here. The Card also have won forty-five straight matches at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium, sold out for the fourth time this season. Other than honoring their seniors and keeping those streaks intact, there’s deceptively little to play for for Stanford though. A #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament is all but locked up, and the Pac-12 title was effectively theirs a long time ago. Cal, trying to be more than just an “opponent” on Saturday night, has much to fret about heading into Selection Monday. The Golden Bears’ RPI has steadily been slipping backwards to the point where they are now in very real bubble danger. Losses to Washington State and Oregon State were painful enough, but the real dagger may have been a home loss to woeful Colorado, whose RPI is flirting with the #200 mark. Obviously, Cal can rest easy if they can get a result against Stanford. But just how hard is that going to be? Did you happen to read about those long streaks above? It’s not quite Mission Impossible, but it really might be Mission Improbable for the Golden Bears who have struggled defending against top sides this season which could spell trouble against the high octane offense of Stanford on Saturday night.

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