Make that seven in a row. Defense powered the Cal men’s basketball team to another win on Saturday afternoon, this time a 62-46 triumph over Colorado at Haas Pavilion. With their seventh-straight victory, and ninth in their last 10 games, the Bears (20-9, 12-5 in the Pac-12) have secured at Read More…
The Cal men’s basketball team doesn’t have control over whether it wins the Pac-12 this year. But as the Bears proved in Thursday night’s 64-46 win over Utah, there is no team in the conference playing better than Cal right now. “I just feel like everyone’s confidence is high right Read More…
A sports team’s peak is the point at which it is playing its best. Peak too soon — as the Cal men’s basketball team did last year — and championships are lost and postseasons shortened. Peak too late, and a championship and postseason may not even be options. This year’s Read More…
After his game-winner at Oregon, Justin Cobbs once again had the confidence to take another dagger shot at Corvallis, Ore., on Saturday. With 37 seconds left to go and the Cal men’s basketball team leading 60-59 over Oregon State, Cobbs held onto the ball for 20-odd seconds by the midcourt Read More…
With a tied game and the shot clock turned off, everyone in Matthew Knight Arena knew who was taking the last shot. Except Allen Crabbe never touched the ball on that fateful possession on Thursday night in Eugene, Ore. Crabbe, the Pac-12’s leading scorer, was denied going around a curl Read More…
On Tuesday’s postgame conference, Mike Montgomery sat through nearly eight minutes of a bombardment of questions about his shove against Allen Crabbe on Sunday. The Cal men’s basketball coach reiterated his apology from the get-go and rephrased the apology in different ways many times. “There’s no place in sports that Read More…
There were six TV cameras at Tuesday’s weekly press conference, crowding a usually barren room in Haas Pavilion. The Cal men’s basketball team (16-9, 8-5 in the Pac-12) deserves media buzz for winning five of its last six games, including upsets of two top-10 teams, and shoving its way into Read More…
Allen Crabbe said that it was a spur of the moment. But Cal athletics director Sandy Barbour and Cal men’s basketball coach Mike Montgomery felt it needed to be addressed. Around the 16:31 mark in the second half during a timeout break in the Sunday night game against USC, Montgomery Read More…
On Sunday night at Haas Pavilion, Allen Crabbe sojourned from the darkest pits of his frustration to the highest state of euphoria. For the first 35 minutes in the 76-68 victory against USC, Crabbe couldn’t find his shot. The guard was shooting 5-for-13 and 2-for-8 from behind the 3-point line. Read More…
Two days after the Cal men’s basketball team’s road upset of No. 7 Arizona on Sunday, Allen Crabbe said that the Bears may win the conference if they play every game the way they did in their game against the Wildcats. Crabbe’s remark might have seemed silly then. Not anymore. Read More…
