Do you believe? Entering halftime, the Bears lead 28-20 over the Scarlet Knights.

Again — after 20 minutes of play, Cal is up by eight.

I’m not sure anyone could’ve called this one, and if the Bears can somehow keep up, the win will go down as the biggest in program history.

Whoa.

If you’ve watched Cal over the past few seasons, you know exactly how this team is wired. Not say they’re incapable of winning big games, but I think it’s fair to say that the team hasn’t handled big stages all that well.

Think of the two Stanford games, three if you count the tournament. Then there’s the Tournament, in which the Bears bowed out with a 55-53 loss to George Washington.

During her time here, coach Joanne Boyle has made the program interesting, to say the least. If the Bears can pull this one out, they may be considered “elite.” As of now, they stay “interesting.”

Cal forward Ashley Walker leads all scorers with 11, guard Alexis Gray-Lawson is next with 9. A big part of the Bears’ success so far could be contributed to the fact that both those players have six boards. In a game where both teams are tossing up bricks — Cal is shooting 36.4 percent from the field, and Rutgers 34.6 — the Bears are keeping things very competitive every possession with their guards crashing the boards.

Guard Epiphany Prince leads the Scarlet Knights with nine points on 4-of-9 shooting. She’s the real deal.

If Cal is indeed going to pull this one out, its gonna need more from its guards. Natasha Vital has three points from a lone make from downtown, but is 1-of-4 from the field. Lauren Greif is 0-2 with zero points, and Kelsey Adrian has pretty much the same stat line as Vital with three points on 1-of-2 shooting.

In the first half, the Bears got some help with Rutgers getting in foul trouble early. I’m sure their coaches would fix that in the second half. The Scarlet Knights also showed some gritty press on Cal, which looked flustered by the pressure, though a lot of that was because Gray-Lawson — the team’s best ball-handler — sat out much of the end of the first half with two fouls.