California Golden Bears NCAA Basketball News

CARSON, Calif., Jan. 28 -- California State University Dominguez Hills issued the following press release: The NCAA released its first Division II West Region polls for the 2008-09 basketball season this afternoon, and both Cal State Dominguez Hills basketball teams find themselves ranked in the top 5. The CCAA-leading men's team sits second behind ...

The Cal Bears men's hoops team released their schedule a couple of days ago along with their 'Select-A-Seat' ticket promotion. You can click the link for the promotion, but don't expect to see any top non-conference competition at Haas Pavilion this year -- unless you count Murray State at the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic on Nov. 9 or UC Santa Barbara at the Golden Bear Classic Dec. 28 - 29.

Last college basketball season, after the Bears had taken a significant lead they weren't going to lose, fans in Berkeley began chanting for the 7'3" center from China, Max Zhang .

WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Jan. 20 -- California State Polytechnical University at Pomona issued the following press release: Cal Poly Pomona's Austin Swift has been named Wilson California Collegiate Athletic Association Men's Basketball Player of the Week for the week of January 12-18. Swift, a 6-foot-5 junior from Santa Cruz, averaged 20.5 points, ...

LA JOLLA, Calif., Jan. 3 -- California State University Los Angeles issued the following press release: Cal State L.A.'s men's basketball team had its chances, but came up just short against one of the California Collegiate Athletic Association's unbeaten teams.

TEMPE, Ariz., March 4 -- Arizona State University issued the following press release: UP NEXT After concluding the home portion of its 2008-09 schedule last weekend, the No.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 10 -- The University of California at Santa Cruz issued the following press release: Kayleigh Calandri, a senior guard from the University of California , Santa Cruz, and Erica Davis, a senior forward from the University of Maine , Presque Isle, were named the co-players of the year as the All-Independent Women's Basketball ...

CHENEY, Wash., March 10 -- Eastern Washington University issued the following news release: An extra game is what Gaels wanted, and an extra game is what the Eagles get - as well as the difficulty of playing one of the best teams and one of the best players in all of NCAA Division I. The Eastern Washington University men's basketball team will ...

While I agree with many of the predictions that are currently making their way around the web and in other publications, it's beginning to get a little crowded when it comes to picking the Bears to win.

IN THE 82 days since a Pac-10 team played a basketball game, three schools have changed coaches and seven underclassmen have entered the NBA draft.

Mike Montgomery has begun to put a very fine 2010 class together in order to replace players like Jerome Randle, Patrick Christopher, Jamal Boykin, and Theo Robertson. Today, he got the type of player he covets when Alex Rossi verbally committed to the Bears.

The deadline for underclassmen to pull out of the draft has passed, so it's now time to look at schools that are celebrating their good fortune or bemoaning their bad luck.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association issued the following news release: The NCAA is awarding approximately $750,000 in women's basketball grants to 14 Division I institutions and four conferences as part of the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Grant Program, which is in its second year.

Denny Douds gazed around a ballroom at the Embassy Suites in Moon and marveled at the turnout.

THE GOOD NEWS: The Bears return 93.9 percent of their scoring and 88.5 percent of their rebounding.

It took about five years before anybody not following the Cal Bears or the Oakland Raiders realized the gem that is Nnamdi Asomugha. It also took about that long before Al Davis gave him a contract that is more in line with the type of performance that Raider Nation has become accustomed to ($45.375 million over three years - highest in NFL history).

In August 2001, a lanky 16-year-old from Akron, Ohio , stepped onto Cal's own Recreational Sports Facility's basketball court.

When it comes to recruiting, you can never be sure that a commit is truly a commit until they've signed their name on the dotted line of the commitment document. In just the last few months, Cal football has seen the verbally decided, choose to change their minds.

With a little bit of dead time in the college basketball world right now, I thought it was as good a time as any to give you my top five west coast teams heading into next year... Ziggin' and Zaggin': Top 5 West Coast Teams in 2009-2010 by Shay Cronin 9 reads Rankings/List May 29, 2009 With a little bit of dead time in the college basketball world ...

The Cal softball team won't say it, but it got screwed. Not by the NCAA selection committee, not by the umpires but by their own school.