Cal falls just short against USC in second close loss this week

Anticevich continued his hot streak and Brown set a career-high of 15 points on 6-for-8 shooting, but the Trojans were able to stay just ahead of the Bears.
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Anticevich continued his hot streak and Brown set a career-high of 15 points on 6-for-8 shooting, but the Trojans were able to stay just ahead of the Bears.
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Defeating the Trojans will be a tough ask without star junior Matt Bradley, who has missed five consecutive games with an ankle injury. Over the last five years, the Trojans have defeated the Bears by 20 points on average.
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Cal was just a few plays away from earning a victory on the national stage over a ranked UCLA team — a team that routed the Bears earlier this season.
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Playing in Salt Lake City against a Utes squad that was fresh off of a win against Stanford, the Bears pulled out a 72-63 victory — their first win outside of Berkeley and second conference triumph of the season.
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This was a three-point barrage for Colorado, as the team posted season-highs in both makes (12) and efficiency (57%) from downtown.
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Cal head coach Mark Fox emphasized the importance of using his big men to penetrate Washington’s zone — and it quickly became clear why.
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Cal’s horrendous shooting made the turnover battle irrelevant, as the team shot a season-worst 34.5% from the field.
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Both the Bears and the Cougars are winless in the 2021 calendar year and will be hungry to have a bounce-back performance in their Thursday night clash.
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While down 17-5 in a game against a team it hadn’t beaten since 2008, Cal never gave up. Fox and his players fought all the way to the final buzzer.
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Ultimately, Mark Fox’s squad did enough down the stretch to secure a victory and bolster the second-year coach’s 8-2 home record against nonconference opponents.
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