Bears Conflict With Cougars In Pac-12 Event
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Joel Brown and the Golden Bears open Pac-12 Event play in opposition to Washington State on Wednesday in Las Vegas.
Cal Appears to be like To Advance To Quarterfinals For Third Time In 4 Years
BERKELEY – California will open Pac-12 Males’s Basketball Event play in opposition to fifth-seeded Washington State on Wednesday afternoon at Las Vegas’ T-Cell Enviornment. The primary-round contest is scheduled to tip off at 2:30 p.m. PST on the Pac-12 Community.
Cal (3-28, 2-18 Pac-12) is the match’s twelfth seed and shall be searching for a spot within the quarterfinal spherical for the third time in 4 seasons courting again to 2020. The Golden Bears enter the match on a 15-game shedding streak whereas Washington State (16-15, 11-9) has gained six consecutive video games, together with a slender 63-57 victory in opposition to Cal on Feb. 25 in Berkeley.
Roxy Bernstein and Don MacLean can have the decision for the Pac-12 Community.
GAME INFORMATION
- Date & Time: Wednesday, March 8 | 2:30 p.m. PST
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | T-Cell Enviornment
- Watch: Pac-12 Community | Roxy Bernstein (PxP) & Don MacLean (Analyst)
- Hear: 810 AM & The Varsity App | Wealthy Cellini (PxP)
- Reside Stats: StatBroadcast
NOTEWORTHY
- Cal is 18-24 all-time and 2-2 below head coach Mark Fox within the Pac-12 Event. Its 18 match wins are tied for the sixth most amongst all present Pac-12 groups. The Bears’ two most up-to-date wins in match play got here in opposition to Stanford in 2020 and 2021.
- The Bears had been defensively sound in two regular-season conferences with Washington State, holding the Cougars to 36.5% taking pictures from the ground and 26.3% from 3-point vary throughout the 2 contests.
- Joel Brown tied a career-high with 9 assists and added 13 factors and 7 rebounds for a close to triple-double in opposition to Washington State on Feb. 25. The senior guard scored a career-high 22 factors in Cal’s regular-season finale at Oregon State final week and is averaging 14.0 factors, 5.3 assists and 4.0 rebounds prior to now three contests.
- Kuany Kuany has scored 10-plus factors in 4 of the previous six video games, together with 10 at Oregon State final Saturday. Kuany is averaging 9.9 PPG in 19 video games since Dec. 21 and has tallied 11 of his 17 double-figure scoring efforts in that span.
- Sam Alajiki is taking pictures 50% from 3-point vary (11 of twenty-two) prior to now eight video games and has scored in double figures in 4 of these contests.
- Grant Newell will look to translate a promising rookie season into postseason play. The freshman recorded two double-doubles this season and is averaging 8.7 PPG and 4.3 RPG in 21 video games courting again to Dec. 10.
- Lars Thiemann is averaging 9.0 factors and three.0 rebounds in two video games since coming back from an harm. The senior middle is averaging profession highs of 9.5 PPG and 5.5 RPG in 30 video games performed this season.
- Cal is 1-1 in opposition to Washington State in Pac-12 Event play. The 2 applications met within the first spherical of the 2022 match, with the Cougars pulling out a wire-to-wire 66-59 victory. Washington State has gained the final seven head-to-head conferences with Cal since Jan. 7, 2021.
- The Bears will attempt to change into simply the second twelfth seed to earn a win on the Pac-12 Event (1-10 all-time). The one twelfth seed to tug off the upset was USC with a 67-64 win in opposition to fifth-seeded Arizona State within the 2015 match.
UP NEXT
With a first-round win in opposition to Washington State, Cal would advance to the quarterfinals and face fourth-seeded Oregon on Thursday. Tipoff of the quarterfinal matchup could be at 2:30 p.m. PST on the Pac-12 Community.
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