Idaho has not been beaten on her home floor in many moons and because the series is to be brought to Moscow, the Vandals are given the edge on any way one cares to look at the advance dope.
Exceptions, the Idaho team has not much as been threatened in any game on the home hardwood.
Conditionally heard, some reports of the Idaho gym and the so-called low cell.
With a few challenges, California's team has been defeated by a score of 8-4.
Callfornla's handicap for an attempt was made to move the final clashes to a neutral floor, but the coast conference understanding on that point gives the southerners little back ground for such a process. There is no question but that Idaho will be favored by having the series at home this year, but next year, when the northern team travels south, the situation will be reversed.
Both Idaho and California were counted out of the race earlier in the season but both refused to recognize the squelching and the matching of the two teams staging such colors as comebacks during the closing days of the regular season will make this final dash one of the most spectacular in western basketball history.
California has a powerful team to pit against the Vandals and one which despite early season upsets has a good record. The southern section is smaller than the northern and consequently the teams do not get the varied competition experienced by those up in the north. California had a bad luck during the first half of the season and lost twice to Southern California and once to Stanford. The Vandals have likewise suffered three defeats, one each by Washington, Oregon, and Washington State.
California's First Appearance  . 