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On Wednesday morning — only barely awake — the Cal men’s basketball team boarded a plane for its second Pac-12 road trip. Alaska Airlines flight No. 357, headed to Seattle for a Thursday evening bout with Washington. Either fittingly or ominously, the 5:30 p.m. tipoff will be at Alaska Airlines
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Forward Richard Solomon has been ruled academically ineligible and will miss the remainder of the 2011-12 season. His departure ends what has been a up-and-down winter for the 6-foot-10 sophomore, and leaves the Cal men’s basketball team — tied with Stanford for first in the Pac-12 — with very little
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No. 1: Cal (15-4, 5-1) The Harper Kamp offensive renaissance bodes well for a balanced Cal offense. The senior forward scored 14 points in the Bears’ two wins this past week, keeping the offense afloat in Thursday’s hard-fought win over Colorado. Allen Crabbe will need to snap out of his
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Welcome to the Pac-12 road, Colorado and Utah. Both teams probably felt pretty good after the first two weeks of the conference season. The Buffaloes were alone in first place, the only squad undefeated in Pac-12 play. Behind an 18-point win over Washington and a 40-point drubbing of Utah, Colorado
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Seven minutes is a long time in a basketball game. It probably seemed like a lifetime for Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak on Saturday night. His squad went scoreless for seven minutes and 10 seconds midway through the first half. During that stretch, the Cal men’s basketball team turned a one-point
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The clock read 35.3 when the handshakes started. A little too early to be proper, but permissible given the ugly game Cal had fought through Thursday night. Hosting red-hot but unproven Colorado, the Bears earned a 57-50 win despite going scoreless for nearly six minutes and flirting with a season-low
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No. 1: Cal (13-4, 3-1) When the Bears struggled with frontline depth, Allen Crabbe started getting more minutes. The 6-foot-6 swingman is averaging just over 37 minutes against conference opponents, and has been making the most of his time on the court. His 16.5 points per game ranks third in
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Sometimes a shooter just needs one shot to get going. For Allen Crabbe, that shot came 29 minutes into the Cal men’s basketball team’s 77-60 win over Oregon on Sunday. His pull-up 3-pointer was the start of a 13-0 scoring run that put the Bears up 17. But just as
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The numbers didn’t lie. Heading into Thursday night as the Pac-12’s top offense, Oregon State dispatched the Cal men’s basketball team, 92-85, with a flurry of scoring runs. Also ranked the ninth-best scoring offense in the nation, the Beavers (11-4, 1-2 in the Pac-12) walked onto their home floor at
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