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After losing four of its last five games, the Cal men’s basketball team has missed the NCAA tournament for just the second time in head coach Mike Montgomery’s six-year tenure. Instead, the Bears have accepted a bid to the National Invitational Tournament as a No. 2 seed. As a result,
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With 22 seconds left in the game, the Cal men’s basketball team found itself down by two with a chance to take the lead for the first time since the opening four minutes of the game. The Bears followed a late-game script that is familiar to both players and fans
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The bubble hasn’t burst for the Cal men’s basketball team yet. While most bracketologists have the Bears as one of the first teams out of the NCAA tournament, there are reasons for Cal fans to be optimistic about their team’s chances. A group of analysts for the University of North
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Four and a half seconds remained in overtime, and Cal guard Tyrone Wallace stepped to the free-throw line. The sophomore had a one-and-one and his Bears had a one-point lead. If he missed, Colorado would have just enough time to steal a victory. His shot clanked off the rim. In
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The memory might be a little hazy, but at one point — back in January — the Cal men’s basketball team was tied for first in the Pac-12, having ripped off five consecutive wins to begin the conference season. Despite cooling off and coming back down to Earth, a win
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The Bears were teetering on the precipice, and nobody was willing to steady the ship. A fast start gave the Cal men’s basketball team an early edge, but the Utes closed the gap quickly, eventually taking the lead. Down two with seconds ticking down before the halftime buzzer, Cal guard
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After back-to-back losses in the desert, Cal’s March Madness hopes are in jeopardy. ESPN’s Basketball Power Index lists the Cal men’s basketball team as the No. 67 team in the country. That means if tournament seeds were decided by BPI alone, Cal would just miss out on the 68 team
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To say Arizona State forward Jonathan Gilling is a 3-point specialist would be an understatement. Gilling, a junior forward, takes more than 80 percent of his shots from 3-point land, a percentage that ranks among the highest in the country. So when the junior started dropping floaters and knocking down
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There’s a four-way tie for third place in the Pac-12, and two of those teams will face off this weekend. The Cal men’s basketball team (18-10, 9-6 Pac-12) is tied with Arizona State, Stanford and Colorado for that third place spot. And third place in the Pac-12 is coveted, because
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Editor’s note: The Daily Cal will be publishing Pac-12 Power Rankings every week, alternating between men’s and women’s basketball. Power rankings are determined by the Daily Cal’s basketball writers and do not necessarily reflect the current Pac-12 standings. 1. No. 3 Arizona (25-2, 12-2 Pac-12) (Last week: 1st) The media
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