Men's Basketball

Cal is 3-22 and has lost its last nine games. But the Bears will play it out — starting with two games in the City of Angels. The Bears will face USC on Thursday and then sit in LA traffic to get to Westwood for a faceoff with UCLA on Saturday.

The Bears played with close to their ideal lineup, considering the players available for the rest of the season, and actually put together extended spells of good basketball — two factors that have rarely coincided this season. It just wasn’t enough.

Rock bottom nowhere in sight, where do the Bears go from here? The answer is simple: down.

Bears, wake up — it’s time to watch another Cal basketball loss!

With a chance to sweep the Cardinal for the first time since 2010 and collect the first Cal win in Palo Alto under head coach Mark Fox, the Bears simply could not rise to the challenge.

The only time since the turn of the century that Cal swept Stanford in basketball was the 2010 season. The Bears will look to break out the brooms once more in Palo Alto on Friday. Here’s to making history.

The Bears dropped two home games this week. The first was a 58-87 walloping by Oregon. Not to be outdone by its neighbors, Oregon State handed the blue and gold a 48-68 defeat three days later.

After allowing Washington State to come back and defeat them in overtime, the Bears return to Berkeley for two games against conference rivals from Oregon.

The game remained relatively close until the midway point of the second half, when Cal’s perimeter savviness just proved to be too much for the visiting team to handle.

Although the blue and gold fell to Utah in an ugly performance, they were able to bounce back in a historic way over Colorado to ring in the new year right and pick up their second victory of the season.