Pac-12

Cal appears poised to challenge Stanford for Pac-12 supremacy

By: Paul Gackle 04/07/13 11:07 PM

A record-breaking season for the Cal women’s basketball team ended in agonizing defeat Sunday, but the Bears’ first Final Four appearance is just the first rung in a high ladder for Lindsay Gottlieb’s program. Throughout the season, Gottlieb said one of her team’s goals was to “put Cal in the conversation of the most elite teams in the country.” Cal succeeded. Read More

Utah earns another Pac-12 upset, 79-69 over Cal

By: The Associated Press 03/14/13 10:28 PM

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Utah has taken down two higher seeds in the Pac-12 tournament. Two more, and the Utes' postseason will continue. Jarred DuBois scored 21 points and hit a tying 3-pointer in the closing seconds of regulation, Jordan Loveridge scored eight of his 20 points in overtime, and Utah upset second-seeded California 79-69 in the Pac-12 tournament quarterfinals Friday night. Read More

Cal’s Allen Crabbe wins Pac-12 Player of the Year

By: Antonio Gonzalez 03/11/13 8:51 PM

BERKELEY — Allen Crabbe has joined an exclusive Cal club that seems to be growing every March. The junior guard won Pac-12 Conference Player of the Year on Monday after leading the league in scoring. He is the seventh Cal player and third in the last four years to win the conference’s most prestigious award, joining Jason Kidd (1994), Shareef Abdur-Rahim (1996), Ed Gray (1997), Sean Lampley (2001), Jerome Randle (2010) and Jorge Gutierrez (2012). Read More

Stanford women win seventh-straight Pac-12 Conference championship title

By: The Associated Press 03/10/13 8:17 PM

SEATTLE (AP) — Amber Orrange capped a career-high 20-point performance scoring on a spinning drive with 8.3 seconds left, and No. 4 Stanford won its seventh-straight Pac-12 Conference tournament title rallying past No. 14 UCLA 51-49 on Sunday night. Read More

Cal, Stanford women's basketball appear destined to meet this week in Pac-12 women’s tourney

By: Paul Gackle 03/06/13 6:48 PM

The Pac-12 Conference women’s basketball season appears to be headed for a photo finish and the winner of the horse race will be in a good position land a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Read More

Cal's Montgomery doing some of his finest work to date

By: Paul Gackle 03/03/13 11:29 PM

Shove or no shove, this season could prove to be Mike Montgomery’s finest piece of work in his 30-plus years of coaching. On the court, the Cal men’s basketball team would probably get blown out by his 1998 Final Four squad from Stanford, and would likely get beaten by the Bears clan that won the Pac-10 Conference title in 2010, too. Read More

Chasson Randle’s 22 lead Stanford past Utah 84-66

By: Michael Wagaman 03/03/13 6:32 PM

STANFORD — Chasson Randle was determined to not let the Stanford men’s basketball team blow another big second-half lead. He got a big hand from seldom-used Gabriel Harris to make sure. With one more game until the Pac-12 tournament, it was exactly the type of lift coach Johnny Dawkins’ team needed. Randle scored 22 points and matched his career high with six assists, and Stanford snapped its longest losing streak at home this season with an 84-66 win over Utah on Sunday. Read More

Justin Cobbs’ resurgence key to Cal men's basketball turnaround

By: Paul Gackle 02/26/13 8:12 PM

BERKELEY — Justin Cobbs is regaining confidence in his jump shot and it earned him Pac-12 Player of the Week honors this week. With the help of Cobbs’ buzzer beater on Thursday and his 18 points on Saturday, the Cal men’s basketball team knocked off Oregon and Oregon State on the road last week to move within striking distance of a Pac-12 conference title. Read More

No. 7 Arizona grinds out 73-66 win over Stanford

By: The Associated Press 02/07/13 12:12 AM

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona got off to an awful start, threatening to spoil its anniversary party at the McKale Center. Even when the Wildcats rallied to get within reach of Stanford, they couldn't seem to pull away. The seniors, as usual, took over just in time. Read More

Recruiting class follows old pattern with Stanford football

By: The Associated Press 02/06/13 7:03 PM

STANFORD — David Shaw’s latest recruiting class is short on numbers and marquee names. If the past has shown anything, though, that might not matter much. Looking for the right combination of brawn and brains, Stanford signed 12 players to national letters of intent Wednesday. That’s a considerably smaller — and less heralded — group than a year ago, when the Cardinal coach hauled in 22 players in what the program called the best class in its history. Read More