Time’s up for USC, Cal men’s swim wins with a promising performance Lisi Ludwig/File Just like water, time is fluid. Time trickles and rushes, stretches and compresses to fill its own space. It’s a universal truth: A 10-minute nap passes much faster than the last 10 minutes of your Friday afternoon class. Time ticks along at its own pace. Try as we might, we cannot control its current. This is not the case, however, for competitive swimmers. In the pool, time becomes an indisputable fact, and every millisecond counts. On Friday and Saturday, time was in the blue and gold’s favor. In Cal’s first scored meet of the season, the Bears managed to beat the USC Trojans 107-76, showing strong improvements and promise in the process.