“It was bound to happen. The Cal men’s basketball team could not keep winning forever. As Stanford’s lead kept building and building in a raucous Haas Pavilion, the Bears’ Pac-12 title hopes softly faded away Wednesday night. Losing to the Cardinal is bad enough for Cal. Losing 83-70 in the 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…
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…
Guards Allen Crabbe and Justin Cobbs combined for 23 of the Cal men’s basketball team’s 30 second-half points on Saturday afternoon. Trouble was, the scoring surge did not make up for their shooting woes in the first half. As a result, Stanford built an eight-point halftime margin and sustained the Read More…
Allen Crabbe, Cal’s leading scorer and the reigning Pac-12 Player of the Year, declared his intentions to enter the NBA Draft on Wednesday. Crabbe possesses the ideal profile for an NBA shooting guard. He has the height, wingspan and athleticism to defend both guards and small forwards. His jump shot Read More…
The man responsible for most of the athletic entertainment these last few months – and entertaining it surely was – is set to no longer be a Bear. Yes, Allen Crabbe, Cal’s best basketball player, is slated to forego his final year at Cal and declare for basketball’s highest stage. Read More…
To say Cal turned things around would be a gross understatement. The Bears won nine of their final 11 regular-season games to finish in a second-place tie and reach the Big Dance for the second-straight year. Even if Allen Crabbe leaves, the Bears should have the pieces to contend for a conference title and reach the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time in six years with Montgomery’s at the program’s helm. Read More…
SAN JOSE — As Allen Crabbe and Justin Cobbs go, so too goes the Cal men’s basketball team. The 12-seeded Bears were going to need excellent performances from their All-Pac-12 duo to upend No. 4 seed Syracuse in their NCAA Tournament round of 32 game on Saturday. Yet, on the Read More…
SAN JOSE — Allen Crabbe clapped his hands, pointed to the crowd and pulled up his jersey, biting the top of it so the “California” on his chest was visible for all to see. Four days after Crabbe talked about the Cal men’s basketball team’s opportunity to put its name Read More…
SAN JOSE — Simply look at the seeding, and No. 12 seeded Cal’s win over No. 5 seeded UNLV looks like your classic first-round NCAA Tournament upset. But was it really that unexpected? Was it that inexplicable that the Bears would pull out the upset? Cal rode a seven-game winning Read More…
