Women's Basketball

Drastic free throw success delivers Bears triumph

Freshman guard Brittany Boyd went 5-for-6 on her way to seven points for Cal in Saturday's final road game of the year, a 75-68 win over the Beavers.
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Freshman guard Brittany Boyd went 5-for-6 on her way to seven points for Cal in Saturday's final road game of the year, a 75-68 win over the Beavers.

In just one trip to the Northwest, the Cal women’s basketball team showed it can win games scoring from inside the paint or beyond the arc. On Thursday, the squad faced an Oregon team led by former NBA coach Paul Westhead and won using a barrage of 3-pointers to take Read More…

Women's Basketball

Pac-12 Power Rankings: Week 8 (Movie edition)

For the antepenultimate Pac-12 Power Rankings of women’s basketball season, we have decided to pick a movie that corresponds to each team. Enjoy. No. 1: Stanford (24-1, 15-0) – The Usual Suspects So the movie title is actually stolen from a Casablanca line, but it nonetheless holds true for the Read More…

Women's Basketball

Pac-12 Power Rankings: Week 7

No. 1: Stanford (12-0, 22-1) My, Stanford, that’s an awful lot of “W”s you’ve got on your record, there. Once again you blew past your opponents — this time the L.A. schools — and tacked two more triumphs onto your home record. Once again the Ogwumike sisters continued to astound Read More…

Women's Basketball

Lindsay Gottlieb, the Cal women's basketball team's first-year head coach, has lofty aspirations for the Bears.

She got swag

Lindsay Gottlieb might have been the happiest person in Berkeley. In front of a crowd of just over 500, the new Cal women’s basketball coach and her team put on a spectacular debut, thrashing Vanguard in a 99-58 exhibition beatdown. During the post-game conference, the excited Gottlieb was doing the Read More…

Women's Basketball

Brittany Boyd was the Pac-12 Player of the Week after tallying 19 points and 10 steals in Saturday's win.

Cal prepares for rematch with surging UCLA squad

After Thursday, there might finally be a moratorium on the Los Angeles road trip. To close out 2011, the Cal women’s basketball team suffered an embarrassing defeat to a second-rate UCLA squad. The Bruins were 6-6 overall — the utter definition of mediocre — and in the midst of a Read More…

Women's Basketball

Pac-12 Power Rankings: Week 6

No. 1: Stanford (20-1, 11-0) Stanford had no problems in sweeping the Arizona schools last weekend, continuing its perfection. The Ogwumikes did their usual things, chalking another pair of double-doubles to their WNBA resumes. But in the squad’s 91-51 destruction against the Wildcats, it was forward Joslyn Tinkle that took Read More…