Two weeks after the Cal football team dazzled the sporting world with four new electric uniform options and matte helmets, it was the men’s basketball team’s turn. On Tuesday, the athletic department unveiled the program’s new Jordan Brand uniforms — surely to the envy of the other 11 conference teams Read More…
Photos from the NCAA Tournament Round of 32 Saturday at San Jose’s HP Pavilion.
“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…
Down two with 16.5 seconds remaining, Oregon coach Dana Altman called timeout and drew up a play for his best shooter. On Saturday afternoon, the Cal men’s basketball team had answered the No. 10 Ducks’ 11-0 run with a 14-4 spurt, but when the ball left forward E.J. Singler’s hands, Read More…
I promised myself I wouldn’t cry while writing this, but I can feel the saltwater in my eyes, and I haven’t even finished the first sentence. I know it’s time; I’m just not ready. I guess that’s why I’ve been putting off writing this, even though the words have been 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…
