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CALIFORNIA BASKETBALL 2008-09 GOLDEN BEARS FACTS & ROSTER TABLE OF CONTENTS A Look at the Golden Bears .................................................2-3 Opponent Scouting Report ......................................................4 2009 NCAA Tournament Recap ...........................................5-6 Cal in the NCAA Tournament ..................................................7 2008-09 Cal in the Pac-10 ....................................................8-9 Golden Bear Notes ...........................................................10-15 2009 NCAA Tournament Bracket .........................................16 BEAR FACTS Cal vs. NCAA Tournament Field ...........................................17 Cal in Postseason Play ..........................................................18 Location: Berkeley, CA 94720 Founded: 1868 Cal NCAA Tournament History .........................................19-20 Enrollment: 34,953 Head Coach Joanne Boyle ...............................................21-22 Colors: Blue (282) & Gold (116) Assistant Coaches .................................................................23 Nickname: Golden Bears 2008-09 Player Profi les ....................................................24-34 Chancellor: Dr. Robert Birgeneau Pacifi c-10 Standings & Honors .........................................35-36 Director of Athletics: Sandy Barbour 2008-09 Cal Results ..............................................................37 Deputy Director of Athletics/SWA: Cumulative Cal Statistics .......................................................38 Teresa Kuehn Gould Game-by-Game Cal Statistics ...............................................39 Arena (Capacity): Haas Pavilion (11,877) Cal Season Highs and Lows .................................................40 Conference: Pacifi c-10 Miscellaneous Cal Statistics ..................................................41 NCAA Tournament Appearances:7 2008-09 Cal Box Scores ...................................................42-49 1990, ’92, ’93, ’06, ’07, 08, 09 Cal Records ......................................................................50-51 2008 NCAA Tournament The Last Time ........................................................................52 Lost in the second round to George Washington, 55-53 Previous Best NCAA Tournament Showing: Second round in 1993, 2008 2008-09 Overall Record: 27-6 WE ARE CALIFORNIA Home: 13-2 When referring to any California athletic team, please use Away: 8-2 either “California” or “Cal” to denote the institution and “Golden Neutral: 4-2 Bears” or “Bears” when indicating the mascot. Refrain from using 2008-09 Pac-10 Record: 15-3/T-2nd such names as UC Berkeley, California-Berkeley, Cal-Berkeley, 2008-09 Pac-10 Tournament Finish: Cal State Berkeley. Lost in the semifi nals to USC, 69-67 CREDITS Assistant Media Relations Director: Written and edited by Melissa Dudek, Anna Oleson-Wheeler and Melissa Dudek Eric Dezendorf. Composition and design by John Dunbar and Evan Offi ce: 510-642-3611 Kerr. Additional material provided by Debbie Rosenfeld-Caparez. Cell: 510-316-9131 Cover and inside photos provided by Kelley Cox, Michael Pimentel and Email: [email protected] John Todd of GoldenBearSports.com, Rob Ericson, Angela Niles and Mollie McClure. Printing by UC Printing Services, Berkeley, Calif. MeMelissalissa DuDudekdek 2008-09 CALIFORNIA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL ROSTER No Name Pos. Ht. Yr. Exp. Hometown (Previous School) Pronunciation 2 Natasha Vital G 5-8 Jr. 2V Stockton, CA (Lincoln HS) Vie-TULL 3 Rachelle Federico G 5-11 So. 1V Tucson, AZ (Flowing Wells HS) RAH-shell FEH-dur-REE-coh 5 Angelei Aguirre G 5-11 Fr. HS White Plains, NY (White Plains HS) 10 Lauren Greif G 5-10 Jr. 2V Portland, OR (Lincoln HS) GRIFE 11 Kelsey Adrian G/F 6-1 So. 1V Langley, B.C., Canada (National Elite Development Academy) AY-dree-EN 15 Casey Morris G 5-9 Fr. HS Piedmont, CA (Piedmont HS) 20 Devanei Hampton F/C 6-3 Sr. 3V Oakland, CA (Oakland Tech HS) DEH-vuh-NAY 21 Alexis Gray-Lawson G 5-8 Sr. 3V Oakland, CA (Oakland Tech HS) 22 Rama N’diaye F/C 6-5 Jr. 2V Dakar, Senegal (Keisei HS, Japan) RAH-muh en-JIE 24 Shantrell Sneed F 6-0 Sr. 3V Fairfi eld, CA (St. Mary’s HS) SHON-trell 44 Ashley Walker F/C 6-1 Sr. 3V Modesto, CA (Davis HS) Head Coach: Joanne Boyle, 4th year at Cal, 7th year overall (Duke, 1985) Assistant Coach: Charmin Smith, 2nd year at Cal (Stanford, 1997) Assistant Coach: Jennifer Hoover, 1st year at Cal (Wake Forest, 1991) Assistant Coach: Kevin Morrison, 2nd year at Cal (Cal Poly Pomona, 1994) 2008-092008 09 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Women’sWomen’s Basketball Postseason Media Guide CalBears.com CalBears com 1 CALIFORNIA BASKETBALL A LOOK AT THE BEARS he No. 4 seed California Golden Bears (27-6, 15-3 Pac-10) are making has led the Bears in scoring in all six of the the fi rst trip to the Sweet 16 in the history of the program, advanc- Tournament games she has played in. Walker is a fi nalist for the Wooden Award ing to the Trenton Regional after a pair of decisive fi rst and second T and the State Farm Wade Trophy and is on round victories over No. 10 seed Fresno State (70-47) and No. 5 Virginia the fi nal ballot for the Naismith Award, the (99-73). three national player of the year honors. The Bears will take on the Senior forward Devanei Hampton got off UConn Huskies (35-0, 16-0 tot a slow start to the season. Coming back Big East), the No. 1 seed in fromf offseason knee surgery, Hampton the Trenton Region and the missedm the fi rst three games of the season overall No. 1 seed in the tour- completelyc and did not return to the starting nament. The two teams will linel up until Dec. 29. Coming off the bench, be playing on Sunday, March HamptonH averaged 5.6 points and 3.3 re- 29 for the right to advance to boundsb per game. Since Dec. 29, Hampton the elite eight to face either hash averaged 10.2 points and 7.0 rebounds, Texas A&M (27-7, 11-5 Big- 2008-09 CALIFORNIA earninge her Third-Team All-Pac-10 honors. 12) or Arizona State (25-8, WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HamptonH played her best game of the season 15-3 Pac-10) on Tuesday, againsta Virginia. She scored a season-high Schedule/Results March 31 to get a ticket to 222 points with 11 rebounds for her third 27-6 Overall, 15-3 Pac-10 the Final Four in St. Louis the double-doubled in the last fi ve games, but her Date Opponent Time/Result following weekend. fi rst career NCAA tournament double-double. 11/5 Chico State (Exh.) W 95-51 Cal has never beaten the HamptonH has four double-digit scoring per- 11/9 Vanguard (Exh.) W 87-37 top-ranked team in the nation. formancesf in six career NCAA tournament 11/14 Albany W 63-39 Their biggest victory was the games.g She averages 13.5 ppg in her NCAA 11/16 Nevada W 67-53 upset of then-ranked No. 2 careerc games. 11/21 No. 2 Rutgers W 66-52 Rutgers, 82-73, earlier this Junior guard Alexis Gray-Lawson earned 11/27-29 at Paradise Jam season at Haas Pavilion in herh fi rst All-Pac-10 First Team honors this 11/27 vs. South Florida W 85-55 Berkeley. season.s Gray-Lawson was second on the 11/28 vs. Texas Tech W 68-54 The Bears come into the teamt in scoring, averaging 11.9 points per 11/29 vs. Iowa W 76-43 game with a 27-6 overall re- game,g but it was the 37 she scored on Jan. 12/6-7 Collier’s International Classic cord, tying for the most wins in 181 against then-ranked No. 6 Stanford that 12/6 Cal vs. Princeton W 75-53 a season in program history. leftl the biggest impression. Gray-Lawson is 12/7 Cal vs. No. 22/RV TCU L 82-73 In their 7 NCAA tournament seconds on Cal‘s all-time three-point shooters 12/12-13 at Basketball By the Bay appearances, they have a listl and ranked third in three-point effi ciency 12/12 at San Jose State W 76-40 record of 4-6. ini the Pac-10 during most of the season. 12/13 vs. No. 5 Oklahoma L 86-75 Since their fi nal game of Gray-LawsonG hit four three-pointers en route 12/22 Baylor cancelled the Pac-10 regular season, tot scoring 22 points against Virginia. 12/29 Saint Mary’s W 85-44 the Bears offense has been Gray-Lawson has four double-digit scoring 1/2 at Arizona* W 56-46 heating up, averaging 74.2 tournamentt games in the fi ve in her career. 1/4 at Arizona State* W 54-53 points per game, well above SheS averages 14.4 ppg in the Tournament. 1/8 Washington State* W 68-45 their regular-season average Junior point guard Natasha Vital comes 1/11 Washington* W 62-34 of 66.7. The scored a season- intoi the tournament ranked sixth on the Cal 1/18 No. 7/9 Stanford* W 57-54 high 99 points against No. careerc assist list, with 108 dishes so far this 1/22 at Oregon State* W 77-72 24 Virginia, their third victory season.s Vital had fi ve assists with zero 1/24 at Oregon* W 65-50 of the season over a top-25 turnoverst in the Fresno State game. Vital 1/29 UCLA* W 64-48 opponent. isi another accurate three-point threat, who 1/31 USC* W 73-71 The Bears are led by wasw second in the Pac-10 with a three-point 2/6 at Washington* W 70-40 fi rst team All-Pac-10 senior accuracya above 40.0 through the end of the 2/8 at Washington State* W 77-57 forward Ashley Walker. regularr season. Vital was an honorable men- 2/14 at No. 6 Stanford* L 58-41 Walker, who led the Pac- tiont All-Pac-10 and all-defensive team. 2/19 Oregon* W 84-42 10 in scoring this season Rounding out the starting lineup is junior 2/21 Oregon State* W 62-40 with a 19.1 point per game guardg Lauren Grief.