California Golden Bears NCAA Basketball News

No. 12 California held their final home game of the 2k Sports Coaches vs Cancer Classic Wednesday night and they gave the home crowd quite a send off in their 95-61 blowout of visiting Detroit.

This was a critical recruiting season for the Stanford and Cal basketball programs, albeit for vastly different reasons.

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.

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.

The California Golden Bears enter the 2009-10 campaign with lofty expectations, and they will try to get started on a positive note when they entertain the Murray State Racers tonight in a Coaches vs.

THOUGH LOFTY national prognostications have placed the bar for Cal basketball at a height never seen during the Ben Braun years, it would be unfair to place full blame on the man who spent 12 years coaching the Golden Bears.

A Cal basketball season that comes with more expectations and promise than any this decade opens tonight, not with a glamorous trip to Madison Square Garden but against an opponent with a modest profile and solid resume.

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.

This past offseason, for the first time since he arrived at Cal, Omondi Amoke was able to devote time to becoming a better basketball player.

Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 9:43 p.m. BERKELEY, Calif. - Patrick Christopher scored 16 points, Jamal Boykin added eight points and 12 rebounds and No.

OUTLOOK: The fact that six of the 10 teams in the Pac-10 have participated in the NCAA Tournament in each of the past two seasons speaks to the strength of the league in recent years.

It's that time of year again. It's time for you to add to your attention on football by also getting your hoops fix.

Murray State's season-opening basketball opponent, California is getting plenty of preseason attention.

If California guard Jerome Randle could have skipped Thursday's Pac-10 men's basketball media day, he would have spent the day in the gym preparing for the season.

A look at each of the Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball teams, in predicted order of finish: 1. CAL GOLDEN BEARS Last year: 22-11 overall, 11-7 Pac-10. Coach: Mike Montgomery .

California Golden Bears' men's hoops team is racking up plenty of preseason preference so far this year--a far cry from this time last season when they were fortunate to be picked to finish eighth in the Pac-10. For only the second time in the history of the program, the Golden Bears were selected first in the Pac-10 preseason media poll with 25 of ...

California was picked on Thursday to win the Pac-10 basketball title, marking the first time in more than 10 years that UCLA or Arizona wasn't the top choice.

Cal basketball's national profile took a leap Thursday when the Golden Bears were picked as the favorite to win the Pac-10 Conference and landed the No.

Coach: Mike Montgomery . Last season's record: 22-11 overall, 11-7 in Pac-10 . Postseason: Lost in first round of NCAA tournament to Maryland.

Cal point guard Jerome Randle emerged as one of the top players west of the Mississippi River last season, exceeding just about every expectation with his average of 18.3 points and 5.0 assists per game as a junior.