2016-17 CALIFORNIA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: NOVEMBER 25 VS SAN FRANCISCO (CAL CLASSIC) CALIFORNIA women's basketball Assistant Director of Athletic Communications (Women’s Basketball contact): MC Barrett Cell: (510) 697-9153 • Office: (510) 643-1261 • Email: [email protected] Website: CalBears.com • Facebook: Facebook.com/CalWBball • Twitter: @CalWBball • Instagram: @CalWBball 2016-17 SCHEDULE SAN FRANCISCO vs SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA DONS (3-1, 0-0 WCC) Date ..............................Nov. 25 GOLDEN BEARS (4-0, 0-0 Pac-12) OVERALL: 4-0 • PAC-12: 0-0 Time ................................1 p.m. DATE OPPONENT TIME/RESULT Venue ..................Haas Pavilion 11/6 WESTMONT (EXH) W, 87-48 Location ............Berkeley, Calif. 11/11 at Saint Mary’s (CA) W, 74-67 Live Stream .........CalBears.com 11/14 SANTA CLARA W, 73-58 Live Stats ............ CalBears.com 11/18 UC RIVERSIDE W, 71-56 11/20 CSU BAKERSFIELD W, 86-63 All-Time Series.. Cal leads, 25-9 11/25 SAN FRANCISCO# 1 P.M. Last Meeting, ...............2001-02 11/26 W. CAROLINA OR DUQUESNE# TBD Current Streak ...........SF, Won 1 12/4 at Nebraska 1 p.m. 12/8 SACRAMENTO STATE 7 P.M. 12/11 LEHIGH 2 P.M. 12/19 vs Southern Miss$ 4:30 p.m. The California women’s basketball team looks to improve to 5-0 season, facing off against cross-bay 12/20 vs Oklahoma$ 6:45 p.m. rival San Francisco on Friday at 1 p.m. in the opening game of the Cal Classic. The second game 12/21 vs Arkansas State$ 9:15 p.m. between Western Carolina and Duquesne will tip off at 3:15 p.m. 12/29 at Arizona* 6 p.m. 1/1 at Arizona State* (P12N) 2 p.m. 1/6 OREGON STATE* (P12N) 6 P.M. Friday’s game is the 35th meeting overall between Cal and San Francisco, but the first between the 1/8 OREGON* (P12N) 6 P.M. teams in almost fifteen years. The Bears lead the overall series, 25-9. 1/13 at Colorado* 6 p.m. 1/15 at Utah* (P12N) 11 a.m. Cal is off to a 4-0 start for the third consecutive season. The Bears are coming off an 86-63 win over 1/20 ARIZONA STATE* (P12N) 8 P.M. CSU Bakersfield on Sunday, in which five different players scored in double-figures. Sophomore Kris- 1/22 ARIZONA* (P12N) 1 P.M. tine Anigwe leads the Bears in both scoring (20.5 PPG) and rebounding (9.8 RPG) this season, and 1/27 at Washington* (P12N) 6 p.m. has a double-double in each of her last three games. Junior Mikayla Cowling is second on the team 1/29 at Washington State* 12 p.m. in both scoring (14.5 PPG) and rebounding (6.8 RPG) and has dished out five or more assists in every 2/3 UCLA* (P12N) 8 P.M. game this year. 2/5 USC* 10:30 A.M. 2/10 UTAH* (P12N) 6 P.M. San Francisco is 3-1 on the season, coming off a 73-71 win over Long Beach State on Sunday. The 2/12 COLORADO* (P12N) 3 P.M. Dons reached the NCAA Tournament last year for the first time since 1997, winning the WCC Tourna- 2/16 STANFORD* (P12N) 8 P.M. ment as the No. 6 seed to clinch an automatic berth. Senior Rachel Howard - a Berkeley native - leads 2/19 at Stanford* (P12N) 5 p.m. the team in scoring, averaging 15.3 points per game. 2/24 at Oregon* 6 p.m. 2/26 at Oregon State* (P12N) 11 a.m. 3/2-5 Pac-12 Tourney (P12N, ESPN) TBD BEARS BY THE NUMBERS 3/17-20 NCAA 1st & 2nd Rounds TBD 3/24-27 NCAA Regionals TBD Kristine Angiwe has three consecutive and 14 career games with at least 20 points and 10 3/31-4/2 NCAA Final Four TBD rebounds. No player in all of Division I women’s basketball has more such games since the 14 start of last season. # Cal Classic (Berkeley, Calif.) $ Las Vegas Tournament (Las Vegas, Nev.) Cal has made 10 or more three-pointers in each of its last two outings, just the second time in * Pac-12 Conference game Home games in BOLD the last 15 seasons that the Bears have made 10 or more threes in back-to-back games. The 10 Bears went 10-21 from three against UC Riverside and 10-19 against CSU Bakersfield. All times listed PT and subject to change Cal scored a season-high 86 points and shot 57.6 percent (34-59) from the floor bear bits against Bakersfield, the Bears’ fourth-highest field goal percentage in any game over COACHING STAFF 56 7 the last 10 seasons. Head Coach .............Lindsay Gottlieb (Sixth season) . Brown, 1999 Assoc. Head Coach.....Charmin Smith (10th season) Cal had five different players score in double-figures on Sunday against Bakersfield, fthe Stanford, 1997 first time having five different players in double-figures in a regulation game since six players Assistant Coach .....................Kai Felton (Sixth season) 5 reached double-digits in a 117-99 win over Sacramento State on December 6, 2015 Randolph-Macon, 2000 Assistant Coach ........Wendale Farrow (First season) Senior Courtney Range is shooting 50 percent (5-10) from three-point range over the Eastern Michigan, 2009 last two games, after shooting just 18 percent (2-11) from downtown through the first TEAM INFORMATION 50 two games of the season. 2015-16 Overall Record ...........................15-17 2015-16 Pac-12 Record (finish) .....4-14 (10th) Mikayla Cowling is averaging a team-high 5.3 assists per game on the year. Current New Starters Returning/Lost ..............................4/1 York Liberty star Brittany Boyd was the last Cal player to average more than 5.0 assist Letterwinners Returning/Lost .....................8/1 5 3 per game over a single season (2014-15). Facility ..................Walter A. Haas, Jr. Pavilion . Capacity ...............................................11,877 All statistics and ranks are entering Nov. 23 2016-17 CALIFORNIA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL NOVEMBER 25 VS SAN FRANCISCO (CAL CLASSIC - GAME 1) QUICK FACTS BEAR NECESSITIES: CAL'S TOP STORYLINES GENERAL INFORMATION INSIDE THE SERIES Location: Berkeley, Calif. Series Record: Cal leads, 25-9 Founded: 1868 Last Meeting: Dec. 5, 2001 (San Francisco won, 55-52) Enrollment: 38,204 • Cal and UC Riverside are meeting for the 35th time overall, in a series that began in the 1976- Colors: Blue (282) & Gold (116) 77 season Nickname: Golden Bears • The teams last met on December 5, 2001, with the Dons winning 55-52 at Haas Pavilion, snap- Mascot: Oski ping the Bears’ four-game winning streak in the series • Cal is 2-0 on the season against West Coast Conference opponents, beating Saint Mary’s and UNIVERSITY PERSONNEL Santa Clara earlier in the season Chancellor: Nicholas Dirks • The Dons are one of eight teams on Cal’s schedule that reached the NCAA Tournament last Director of Athletics: H. Michael Williams season Senior Women’s Administrator: • San Francisco has lost seven straight and 13 of its last 14 games against Pac-12 opponents. Jenny Simon-O’Neill The lone win in that span come on December 2, 2007, a 64-62 win at Oregon State Conference: Pacific-12 COACHING STAFF SCOUTING THE DONS Head Coach: Lindsay Gottlieb (6th season) • San Francisco is 3-1 on the season, coming off a 73-71 win over Long Beach State on Sunday, Brown, 1999 in which the Dons had four different players score in double-figures. Assoc. Head Coach: Charmin Smith (10th season) • After opening the season with wins over Sacramento State and Seattle, the Dons fell to Wash- Stanford, 1997 ington State on the road, 73-35 Assistant Coach: Kai Felton (6th season) • Senior Rachel Howard - an All-WCC Honorable Mention last season and graduate of Berkeley Randolph-Macon, 2000 High School - leads the Dons in scoring, averaging 15.3 points per game. Junior Michaela Rakova Assistant Coach: Wendale Farrow (1st season) is second on the team in scoring (11.8 PPG) and leads the squad in rebounding (6.3 RPG) Eastern-Michigan, 2009 • The Dons return three starters from last seasons’ squad that went 21-12 last season and won the WCC Tournament as 6-seed, earning the program’s first NCAA tournament appearance since TEAM INFORMATION 1997. San Francisco lost to Stanford in the First Round, 85-58. Starters Returning/Lost: 4/1 • Head Coach Molly Goodenbour, a two-time national champion as a player at Stanford, is in her Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 8/1 first season at San Francisco Facility: Walter A. Haas, Jr. Pavilion (11,858) NCAA Tournament Appearances: 11 A CALIFORNIA WIN WOULD... ‘90, ‘92, ‘93, ‘06, ‘07, ‘08, ‘09, ‘12, ‘13, ‘14, ‘15 • Be the Bears’ first 5-0 start since the 2014-15 season and mark the third time in Gottlieb’s six Best NCAA Tournament Showing: seasons that the Bears have started 5-0 or better. National Semifinalists (2013) Best NIT Tournament Showing: Champion (2010) Best Record To Start Season - Cal Under Linday Gottlieb 2015-16 IN REVIEW 2014-15 7-0 2012-13 6-0 2015-16 Overall Record: 15-17 2016-17 4-0 Home: 10-6 | Away: 2-9 |Neutral: 3-2 2015-16 Pac-12 Record: 4-14/10th 2015-16 4-0 2015-16 Pac-12 Tournament Finish: T3rd, Lost in the semifinals to Utah, 82-78 (OT) • Give the Bears their longest winning streak since an eight-game winning streak in January 2015 (Jan. 18 - Feb. 22) Athletic Communications • Improve Cal to 5-0 on the year against teams from the state of California Mailing Address: 349 Haas Pavilion Berkeley, CA 94720 2016-17 SAN FRANCISCO DONS Assistant Athletic Communications Director: NO NAME POS.