The Cal women’s basketball team’s defense this season has been excellent, averaging 59 points in the six contests they played this season. But in Saturday’s 2 p.m contest against Cal State Bakersfield in the first round of the Cal Classic tournament, the Bears’ defense will face a new challenge. The Read More…
In Sunday’s 59-50 victory against No. 22 Virginia at Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Cal women’s basketball team’s biggest matchup was not about the players but rather on the sidelines. After a mediocre 18-16 record last season, former Bears coach Joanne Boyle took the vacant head coaching job Read More…
On the third day of the Waikiki Beach Mariott Rainbow Wahine Showdown, the Cal women’s basketball team will reunite with former head coach Joanne Boyle. Only this year, Boyle won’t pace the length of Cal’s bench. She now presides at the helm of No. 22 Virginia, whom the Bears (2-1) Read More…
After four and a half minutes of sloppy offense against Illinois, the Cal women’s basketball team got its first big break when guard Lindsay Sherbert drained the first 3-pointer from the corner. Twenty-three seconds later, Sherbert went back to the exact same spot and scored again, widening the lead, 11-5. Read More…
After a week of unrest throughout the campus, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau was probably hoping that whatever free time he did have could be spent in the least stressful way possible. Luckily for him, the Cal women’s basketball team did not cause him any additional grief, as they took care of Read More…
On Thursday at 7 p.m., the Cal women’s basketball team will play its first regular season home game beneath the lights of Haas Pavilion. But as late as Tuesday afternoon, the Bears (0-1) weren’t looking ahead to the game against Sacramento State. Coach Lindsay Gottlieb and her players still lingered Read More…
On April 10, former head coach Joanne Boyle — the winningest coach in program history — left the Cal women’s basketball team to accept a job at Virginia. With the Bears’ coaching job vacant, all signs for a new coaching job pointed towards Lindsay Gottlieb, Boyle’s former assistant coach from Read More…
If only the Cal women’s basketball team could have ended Sunday’s matinee against No. 16 Rutgers at the half, the Bears would have emerged with an upset win to start the season. After 20 minutes at the Luis Brown Athletic Center in Brunswick, NJ. the Scarlet Knights had taken more Read More…
Guard Layshia Clarendon usually doesn’t like to travel, but she will make an exception this year. It’s not that Clarendon misses the airline food or the long airport lines. She is just fired about traveling with the Cal women’s basketball team and building camraderie that was lacking in the previous Read More…
The first time Lindsay Gottlieb saw collegiate action in Haas Pavilion this year, she was watching a Cal volleyball match. When the announcer called the Bears’ lineup, the new Cal women’s basketball coach suddenly realized that this same scenario would unfold in front of her own team soon. “I got Read More…