By Jeff Faraudo, Cal Sports Report: Gene Ransom, a flamboyant basketball star at Cal in the late 1970s and a member of the school’s athletic Hall of Fame, was killed in a freeway shooting in Oakland on Friday, according to media reports.
Ransom, 65, may be best remembered by Cal fans as having played 63.5 minutes and scoring 36 points in a five-overtime victory against Oregon in 1977.
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