Cal basketball

After dropping nine straight games, most of which were decided in blowout fashion, the Cal men’s basketball team finally reunited with the win column in the form of a 74-70 victory against Oregon State.

While the Cal men’s basketball team’s bench had been loud and boisterous for much of the team’s close second half against Oregon, it fell silent and still in the last five minutes, reflecting the precipitous fall that the Bears experienced from a near-comeback to a double-digit 66-53 loss.

Former Cal men’s basketball point guard Brandon Chauca has received a release from the team and will be eligible for a fifth season as a graduate transfer

A string of impressive performances, however, has the potential to provide a different perception of the former Cal forward’s young career.

In their second matchup of the season against each other, USC (17-6, 8-2) once again decimated Cal (7-15, 1-8), this time by a score of 77-59.

Junior guard Don Coleman of Cal men’s basketball team will not play against UCLA because of a violation of team rules, according to a press release.

The loss extends the Bears’ losing streak to six, a stretch that has spanned three weeks.

With a figure that low, it should come as no surprise that the Bears’ first-, second-, third- and fourth-lowest scoring performances have come in this stretch of basketball.

What the next batch of games has to offer remains dubious, but in the short term, Cal looks to inch just little closer to a .500 record on the season with a home match-up against Cal State Fullerton (6-3).

The Bears’ defense has been sliced and diced by deadly three-point shooting all season and their matinee with the Silverswords was no exception. Headlining a Chaminade offense which shot 56% from the three-point line was senior guard Dantley Walker. With the exception of a mid-range jumper in the first half, Walker’s buckets came exclusively from beyond the arc as the senior converted seven of ten threes en route to 23 points.