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…
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 — 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…
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…
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…
Even after losing its last two games, the Cal men’s basketball team was all but assured of a second straight NCAA tournament bid. The Bears were rewarded for their overall body of work with a 12 seed in San Jose, where they will face UNLV on Thursday at 4:27 p.m. Read More…
LAS VEGAS — It did not matter that the Cal men’s basketball team had beaten Utah twice comfortably during the regular season. The Pac-12 tournament is a completely different animal. In a tournament chalk full of down-to-the-wire action, the Bears’ Thursday quarterfinal matchup was no exception, as the tenth-seeded Utes Read More…
Lady Luck seems to be in love with the Bears. With how fate outlined the bracket in the Bears’ favor, there is no reason to not believe Cal men’s basketball can’t win the wide-open Pac-12 Tournament. The margin of talent between the top-seeded teams and the bottom-dwellers is arguably the Read More…
The Cal men’s basketball team was on a roll, the winners of seven straight before coming to a sudden arboreal stop against Stanford last Wednesday, leaving the squad one game short of a conference title. While the streak put the Bears in line for an at-large bid in the NCAA Read More…
