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…
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…
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…
Last year, Justin Cobbs did not watch any of the NCAA Tournament’s opening weekend games. After South Florida crushed the Cal men’s basketball team in the play-in game, the Bears’ point guard did not feel like watching basketball for the next week. The wound was still fresh. Still is. The Read More…
Make that seven in a row. Defense powered the Cal men’s basketball team to another win on Saturday afternoon, this time a 62-46 triumph over Colorado at Haas Pavilion. With their seventh-straight victory, and ninth in their last 10 games, the Bears (20-9, 12-5 in the Pac-12) have secured at 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…
Two days after the Cal men’s basketball team’s road upset of No. 7 Arizona on Sunday, Allen Crabbe said that the Bears may win the conference if they play every game the way they did in their game against the Wildcats. Crabbe’s remark might have seemed silly then. Not anymore. 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…
Thursday’s 5:30 p.m. visit to the Jon M. Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, would seem to be just what the doctor ordered for a Cal men’s basketball team that has lost four of its last six games. The Bears (10-7, 2-3 in the Pac-12) swept the 11th-place Utes Read More…
STANFORD, Calif. — Too little, too late. 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 Read More…
