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The Cal men’s basketball team’s habit of starting slow finally caught up to it when the team dropped its first Pac-12 match to USC on Wednesday. The Bears (14-5, 5-1 Pac-12) entered that contest undefeated in conference play and were expected to roll through their weak opponent. Instead, they came
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At what point does a fluke morph into a pattern? For its fourth straight game, the Cal men’s basketball team fell into an early deficit against its lightly regarded opponent. The first three times, the Bears eventually found their rhythm and cruised to an easy win. On Wednesday night at
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For the briefest of moments, it looked like a real contest. The Cal men’s basketball team looked sluggish as ever for the first five minutes of Wednesday night’s game against Washington, shooting just 1-for-7 from the field and struggling to move the ball on offense. Meanwhile, the Huskies flexed their
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When Jabari Bird and Ricky Kreklow went down in relatively quick succession just as conference play approached, it was hard to see the Cal men’s basketball team as anything but doomed. Bird and Kreklow were the Bears’ two best three-point shooters. Without the two wings, Cal’s offense lost its two
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With less than a minute to play against the Cardinal and with the Bears up three, Cal point guard Justin Cobbs slowed down the tempo of what had been a frantic game up until that point. He paused beyond the arc before driving, first to his right and then cutting
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Just after the first media timeout at the Cal men’s basketball game against Fresno State, a small buzz began to build in one corner of the court. Folks positioned in the bleachers behind the basket craned their necks toward the courtside seats. Others pulled out their phones to snap a
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Bucket after bucket rained down in Haas Pavilion on Tuesday night as the Cal men’s basketball team found itself in a shootout with Nevada. The Wolf Pack shot an impressive 55 percent from the field, but the Bears were able to keep pace with 56 percent shooting. For both teams,
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Last week brought a rough couple of games for the Cal men’s basketball team. After losing 6-foot-10 center Richard Solomon to a corneal abrasion midway through the Maui Invitational, the Bears’ elite interior defense promptly imploded. Cal (6-2) allowed more than 1.2 points per possession in losses to Syracuse and
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After a 1-2 finish at the Maui Invitational, the Bears (6-2) were ready to rebound against UC Irvine (5-3) at home Monday night. And not only did the Cal men’s basketball team metaphorically rebound with a 73-56 win, but it also literally outrebounded the Anteaters, 50-41. Both of those stats
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An hour before the Bears took on Syracuse on Tuesday, Cal received worrying news: senior power forward Richard Solomon would not be able to play due to a corneal abrasion he suffered in a 85-77 victory over Arkansas on Monday. Solomon currently ranks in the top-10 in the country in
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