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Cal Men's Basketball Sweeps the USC Trojans
It sounded like an ugly start at the Galen Center. Despite having a depleted roster, the USC Trojans have one of the best defensive squads in the conference and like to slow things down to turn games into a grating and grinding affair. With most of the starters matching the coma ward atmosphere,...
Cal Men's Basketball vs. the USC Trojans Preview
It's been a rough year for the USC Trojans.(6-18, 1-10 conference) Cue the world's smallest violin. Before the season got underway, leading scorer Jio Fontan blew out his ACL during an exhibition game. Then, second-leading scorer Aaron Fuller tore the labrum of his shoulder. And a week later,...
Cal Men's Basketball Can't Quite Close Out the Gold Out
A spirited Gold Out welcomed the Arizona Wildcats into Haas Pavilion. In stark contrast to the previous game against Stanfurd, this time it was Cal that had the size advantage. In a match-up of polar opposites, would the deep bench and quick athletes from Zona have the edge, or would the Bears be...
Cal Men's Basketball vs. Arizona Wildcats Preview
It's yet another tough conference game with the Arizona Wildcats bringing their blue-chip talent into town. (14-8, 5-4 conference) An Elite 8 team last year, many pundits picked Zona as the preseason Pac-12 favorite on the strength of Sean Miller's coaching and one of the best recruiting classes...
Cal Men's Basketball vs. the UW Huskies Preview
Words cannot describe what a pleasure it was researching the Washington Huskies this week. Fortunately, Apple(tm) laptops are made of stern stuff, and repeated blows whenever I saw that infuriating logo failed to destroy my monitor. (Dear Apple, if you'd like to sponsor me, I'd like a boat,...
Too Much Harper, Jorge, and Cobbs for the Utes
When Cal started the first five minutes 1 of 5 from the field en route to a 2-5 deficit, it was hard not to take a deep breath and think "here we go again." Fortunately, the defense came to play and Harper Kamp maintained his hot hand. And a 18-2 run quickly reversed the Bear fortune to 20-7,...
Cal Bears Throttle the Utes, 81-45
Jorge bounced back in a big way. Harper continued his hot hand and was deadly both inside and out. Justin Cobbs controlled this game from the point. Even better, we had a Rossi sighting! And contributions from Behrens! From start to finish, this game had "Bears" stamped all over it. This was a...
Cal Men's Basketball vs. the Utah Utes Preview
If you had to draw up an action plan for transitioning into a new conference, start with the Utah Utes off-season and do the exact opposite. Besides firing their head coach, they weren't able to convince most of their veteran players to stay and ended up losing five of their six top scorers. New...
Oregon State Beavers Shoot the Lights Out, Leave the Cal Bears in the Dark
There's something about Gill Coliseum that seems to induce a malaise on visiting Cal teams. In a surprising twist, the Beavers came out in their old trapping 1-3-1 zone after playing man for most of the season. The Bears countered with a zone of their own for the first time this year. With a hot...
Cal Men's Basketball at the Oregon State Beavers Preview
A road trip to Corvallis is always a tough one. The ghosts of Gill Coliseum seem to delight in channeling their lonely mojo into ragged performances by visiting Cal teams. For the past three years, the Beavers have leaned on their unconventional 1-3-1 zone defense in an attempt to even the playing...
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