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It’s a down year for USC and a down year for the Pac-12. But it’s still conference play, and the Cal men’s basketball team escaped with a 53-49 win over the Trojans on Thursday evening to open the Pac-12 season. The Bears held a comfortable lead most of the game,
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Anthony Marshall flies. His 6-foot-3, 200-pound frame uncoils, soars and hangs. His YouTube results include emphatic dunks against UNC and San Diego State, a portfolio he diversified with two slams against Cal on Friday. So why did Marshall settle for a soft lay-up on an easy first-half breakaway? The UNLV
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If Jorge Gutierrez could shut down the nation’s leading scorer on Friday, surely he could stop the country’s fourth leading scorer on Monday. Except Gutierrez did not play in the Cal men’s basketball team’s 70-50 victory over UC Santa Barbara on Monday night at Haas Pavilion. The senior guard, who
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Cal men’s basketball forward Richard Solomon will miss the next two games with a left foot injury, head coach Mike Montgomery announced Monday. The starter will undergo further evaluation on what appears to be a stress fracture or stress reaction. Solomon initially broke the news last night on Twitter: “Stress
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After the Cal men’s basketball team’s win over Austin Peay in November, guard Brandon Smith claimed he is happiest whenever the other team’s best player is a shooting guard. Why? Because that means Jorge Gutierrez will be defending him. On Friday night, the assignment was Weber State’s Damian Lillard: The
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For the first time in his Cal career, Allen Crabbe came off the bench. When he finally stepped on the court, the star shooting guard was already warmed up and ready. Penalized for being late to the morning shoot-around, Crabbe lit up visiting Jackson State with a game-high 17 points,
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There wasn’t one thing that stood out for the Cal men’s basketball team in its 81-36 trouncing of San Jose State on Wednesday night. It was everything. The Spartans (3-6) kept the game close for about a minute and a half at Haas Pavilion. Then Bears guard Allen Crabbe broke
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Allen Crabbe sliced down the lane, contorting himself to lay in a soft bucket and give the Cal men’s basketball team its first lead of the second half. Less than a minute later, fellow Bears guard Justin Cobbs spied Crabbe streaking down the weak side and lobbed up an alley-oop
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When the No. 24 Cal men’s basketball team heads to San Diego this weekend to take on the Aztecs, Richard Solomon won’t be with the team. The Bears’ starting forward has been suspended indefinitely, announced coach Mike Montgomery in a press release on Friday. The reason provided was conduct contrary
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The Cal basketball team just can’t stay close. In the No. 24 Bears’ six wins, they have averaged a 21-point margin of victory. In the final of the CBE Classic over a week ago, they lost to No. 13 Missouri by 39. The embarrassing loss in Kansas City, Mo., was
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