In this year's first competitive game involving a nationally ranked team, Cal (Berkeley) needed a huge game from Ashley Walker, and a clutch trey from Alexis Gray-Lawson, to get by Fresno State.

"Fresno State is... learning a new system now and are working out the kinks," said Cal coach Boyle. "It obviously wreaked havoc on us. It wasn't until the last two minutes or minute of the game that we were able to pull it out."

Are Fresno State going to be that good? Maybe-- but Cal were also scrambling to figure out how to work without Devanei Hampton, whose inside presence will be gone for at least a month. "We didn't feel we had it," said Gray-Lawson, "until the buzzer went off."