Cal women return four starters, a rarity in today's college basketball: 'The culture'

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3:04p, 6/18/26

Gift link to SF Chronicle story

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"Money isn't the reason I stayed," Twidale said from her native Australia in a phone interview. "Obviously, it's a part of the game today, but … being surrounded by really amazing people great coaches, great teammates was more important to me than chasing a bag."

Twidale listed graduating from Cal and the fact that so many key teammates chose to stick with the Bears as main reasons for her decision to remain in Berkeley.

"We all have our different reasons for wanting to stay," Maul said, "but then, at the same time, I also think that the biggest reason for wanting to stay is that we all bought into the process and bought into trusting in the staff and trusting in the plan and trusting that we're going to be better" next season.

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In reply to CalWSportsFan • 8:24p, 6/19/26

Having the top 5 eligible players back is absolutely huge!

The ACC will be really good and deep with something like 10 teams in the early brackology

Let's see if we can defend and rebound the post, and add a reliable 3 point shooter

CalWSportsFan said:
Gift link to SF Chronicle story

here's an excerpt:

Quote:
"Money isn't the reason I stayed," Twidale said from her native Australia in a phone interview. "Obviously, it's a part of the game today, but … being surrounded by really amazing people great coaches, great teammates was more important to me than chasing a bag."

Twidale listed graduating from Cal and the fact that so many key teammates chose to stick with the Bears as main reasons for her decision to remain in Berkeley.

"We all have our different reasons for wanting to stay," Maul said, "but then, at the same time, I also think that the biggest reason for wanting to stay is that we all bought into the process and bought into trusting in the staff and trusting in the plan and trusting that we're going to be better" next season.