BearTalk

 In the 100th season of Cal basketball, we continue our countdown of the greatest teams in school history. Today: No. 6.

6. 1985-86.
   Team’s record: 19-10.
   Achievements: Places third in Pac-10 after 10 straight second-division conference finishes. Beats UCLA 75-67 at Harmon Gym to end a 52-game losing streak to the Bruins.
   Record vs. Stanford: 2-0.
   Record vs. UCLA: 1-1.
   Coach: Lou Campanelli.
   Top players: Kevin Johnson (15.6 ppg, 6.0 apg), Leonard Taylor (11.9 ppg), Dave Butler (11.8 ppg, 7.9 rpg).
   Bottom line: If Jason Kidd transforms Cal basketball seven years later, it’s Campanelli who shakes the program out of 25 years of lethargy. In his debut season, he promises the Golden Bears will be competitive and that Harmon Gym will become a hot ticket, and he delivers on both counts. The win over UCLA is one of the great emotional high points in Cal sports history, and leaves grown men crying in the grandstands.

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   News of the world: Microsoft releases Windows 1.0; Soviets launch space station Mir; dictator “Baby Doc” Duvalier fleas Haiti.
   U.S. president: Ronald Reagan.
   U.S. population: 240 million.
   Elvis sighting: Nine years after his death, Presley is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class.
   AP Athletes of the Year: Larry Bird (basketball) and Martina Navratilova (tennis).
   Elsewhere in Bay Area sports: Purvis Short averages 25.5 points per game, but the Warriors struggle to a 30-52 record; in his first full season with the A’s, Jose Canseco hits 33 homers and drives in 117 runs.