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Today California at Pacific, 7 p.m. Idaho at Washington State, 8 p.m. Louisiana Tech at Arizona, 8 p.m. Friday Idaho State at USC, 7:30 p.m. Saturday St.

Category: Sports > Winter > Basketball Comments Cal men's basketball coach Mike Montgomery said at the beginning of the season that his team didn't have a powerful inside presence.

Max Zhang won't be wearing boxing gloves tonight when he takes the court against Iowa State.

The cocktail of injuries, illness and foul trouble at mile-high elevation caught up to the Cal basketball team down the stretch Wednesday night in an 86-78 loss to New Mexico at The Pit.

Don't expect to see this tonight at New Mexico, but Cal coach Mike Montgomery is tinkering with the idea of moving All-Pac-10 point guard Jerome Randle off the ball at times to give the Golden Bears another offensive look.

Photo credit: AP PHOTO - Denis Poroy No shift in the top four, but we've got a whole lot of movement starting at No.

Princeton's soft 1-3-1 zone was just what California's Jamal Boykin wanted to see.

Jacksonville University, Cal's opponent Tuesday night, is not the school that Artis Gilmore led to the NCAA Championship Game in 1970.

The Cal we saw Thursday night was not the Cal we picked to win the Pac-10. No way.

Scoop Jardine scored a career-high 22 points, Wes Johnson had 17 points and 11 rebounds, and Syracuse raced past No.

Jim Boeheim walked into the postgame interview room and settled into a chair, hunching over with his chin tucked into his hand.

California's Jerome Randle celebrates a score as he runs upcourt during the first half of the 2K Sports Classic on November 11 in Berkeley, Calif.

At this time last year, Markhuri Sanders-Frison was playing basketball at South Plains Community College in Levelland, Texas, population 12,450. On Thursday night, he and the Cal basketball team will face Syracuse in the Coaches vs.

There are a lot of smart people at Cal, and you've got to figure the gene-splicing, cloning and teleportation experts could help the Bears with their problems inside.

California's season-opening 75-70 win over Murray State resonated here in Portland for one reason: It marked the Pac-10 debut of junior center Markhuri Sanders-Frison. Sanders-Frison is a Portland-born center who played at Jefferson High School.

Berkeley, Calif. -- Mike Montgomery doesn't want to see California let other teams hang around.

Trying to win their first true season-opening road game since 1977, the Detroit Titans make their way to Haas Pavilion in Berkeley tonight where they will contend against 13th-ranked California in the 2K Sports Coaches vs.

Thirteenth-ranked Cal played well enough at the end of the first half and start of the second to beat Murray State 75-70 at Haas Pavilion on Monday night.

Last season, California reached its first NCAA tournament in three years. In 2009-10, coach Mike Montgomery's team appears primed to make a run even deeper into March.

Category: Sports > Winter > Basketball Comments When the Cal men's basketball team starts season play in the 2K Sports Classic, committing 16 turnovers will probably matter.