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Washington St 58, California 80

Final. Women's · Monday, November 2, 2026, 10:00 PM ET at Haas Pavilion. Washington St our rank 81 · 1-2; California our rank 26 · 4-0.

Who won Washington St vs California?

Final: California 80, Washington State 58. Before tip-off the model gave California a 96% chance to win, with a projected margin of 24.8 points for California. Lulu Twidale scored 26 for California; Eleonora Villa had 20 for Washington St.

Prediction made that morning; page updated November 13, 2026.

The call

From this morning's ratings; logged before tip-off.
To winCalifornia 96%Washington St 4%
Projected score69–94Washington St, then California
Margin24.8California · no line posted
Total162.7no line posted
First half31–46California ahead 90%
Washington St by 10Evenby 10by 20by 30by 40California by 50Model: California by 24.8Washington St by 10by 10by 30California by 50Model: California by 24.8

Half of games like thisFour in five

Calls of 90–100% have been right 96.1% of the time in 10,929 past games, and the typical miss on the margin is 9.5 points. After the final, the result is pinned to this strip.

The game without one player

Pick a regular to sit her

Without Lulu Twidale: Washington St 7%California 93%

The white mark is the call with her: California 96%.

PlayerPoints a game she addsCalifornia without herChangeProjected score
California
Lulu Twidale4.693%−371–91
Gisella Maul4.293%−371–92
Shannon Dowell3.794%−271–92
Taylor Barnes3.794%−271–92
Washington St
Eleonora Villa3.798%+267–96
Charlotte Abraham2.297%+168–95
Mackenzie Chatfield1.997%+168–95
Malia Ruud1.897%+168–95

Change is in California's win chance, in points. Scores read Washington St, then California. A player's value is what the team is better by with her than with a replacement, from the player ratings.

Play-by-play

    Team numbers

    Why the model sees it this way

    The game in numbers

    The matchup

    Form

    Each team's last five before this game

    Washington St

    No games yet this season: this is its first.

    California

    No games yet this season: this is its first.

    The spread and the total are the lines logged with each prediction. Form is what happened; the ratings above already count recent games more.

    Offense against defense

    Adjusted for opponents · rank of 363
    Washington StCalifornia
    Points scored per 100 possessions96.7 102nd106.7 30th
    Points allowed per 10086.0 60th81.2 28th
    Possessions a game71.4 234th72.7 115th
    Shooting (effective field-goal %)46.2% 131st47.5% 70th
    Opponents' shooting43.5% 63rd44.5% 122nd
    Turnovers, share of possessions21.1% 24th21.8% 50th
    Offensive rebounds, share of misses30.1% 311th31.9% 226th
    Free throws per shot0.17 347th0.21 186th

    The widest gap: California's defense (28th) against Washington St's offense (102nd), of 363 teams.

    First half

    Projected before tip-off

    Ahead at halftime

    California led at the half, as projected. The margin was off by 1.3 points and the total by 16.1.

    At halftime
    Washington St 24, California 37
    Projected halftime score
    Washington St 31, California 46
    First-half margin
    California by 14.3
    First-half points, both teams
    77.1
    Tied at the half
    4%

    Our own projection, not a sportsbook's first-half line. On 10,911 past games it had not seen, the halftime leader was right 73.0% of the time and the first-half total was off by 8.0 points on average. This season: 404 of 492 halftime leaders right. Scorecard

    Box score

    Each team's players, most minutes first

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