Cal vs. Southeastern Louisiana
BERKELEY --Â A holiday weekend full of hoops in Haas Pavilion wraps up Sunday evening when California men's basketball takes on Southeastern Louisiana in the second contest of a four-game homestand. The action is set to start at 5 p.m. in Berkeley.
The Golden Bears extended their home winning streak to 22 games with a 71-61 bounce-back win over Wyoming Friday evening. Reigning Pac-12 Player of the Week
Charlie Moore paced the Bears with 18 points, and
Ivan Rabb  logged his second consecutive double-double (12 points, 10 rebounds) after making his season debut on Monday. The duo was among four who scored in double figures, with nine Bears getting in on the scoring action.
Cal is 19-2 in non-conference home games under head coach
Cuonzo Martin and 60-5 on Pete Newell Court vs. non-Pac-12 opponents since the start of the 2009-10 campaign.
HOW TO FOLLOW THE ACTION: Tickets for the game can be purchased  in advance via CalBears.com or by calling (800) 462-3277. The game will be televised live on Pac-12 Network and online via Pac-12.com/live and the Pac-12 Now app, with Barry Tompkins and Steve Lavin on the call. The California Golden Bears Sports Network (KGO 810 AM) has the radio call from Todd McKim and
Jay John. Follow the Bears on social media for a behind-the-scenes look at all the action at Facebook.com/CalMensBball and on Twitter and Instagram @CalMensBball.
SCOUTING THE LIONS
Last Meeting: Have Not Met
Series Record: 0-0
Southeastern Louisiana 2016-17 Record: 4-2
Southeastern Louisiana's Last Game: Lost to Colorado State, 67-59
• Marlain Veal scored a game-high 20 points in the loss to the Rams, and Eddy Polanco added 15 points.
• Jordan Capps earned All-Southland Conference Tournament honors last season and leads the Lions with 22 points per game but has missed the last four games.
• Veal (19.3 ppg), Moses Greenwood (12.8 ppg) and Davon Hayes (11.0 ppg) are all averaging double-digit totals in six appearances.
• Dominic Nelson is averaging 8.3 rebounds per game.
• The Lions have turned the ball over 103 times leading into Sunday's contest.
• Southeastern started the season at 4-1, its best start since 2010-11.
LAST TIME OUT
Cal bounced back from Monday's loss with a 71-61 victory over Wyoming in Haas Pavilion.
• The Bears shot 46.2 percent for the game, including 57.1 percent in the second half.
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Charlie Moore led the Bears with 18 assists while setting a career-high 6 assists.
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Ivan Rabb recorded his 14th career double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds.
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Kingsley Okoroh tallied a new personal best 5 blocks.
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Roger Moute a Bidias matched his career-high point total (12), set earlier this month against South Dakota State.
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Sam Singer matched his collegiate-best total of 6 rebounds.
• Cal led by as many as 22 points.
PROWESS IN THE PAINT
With defense as a staple of head coach
Cuonzo Martin's program, California is once again emerging as a force in the paint, where the Bears rank among the nation's elite in four different categories. Cal owns a 15.0 rebound margin over its opponents, good for fifth in the nation, while checking in at 7th in defensive rebounds per game (32.50). The Bears are averaging 45.50 total rebounds per game, putting them at 12th in the nation. Cal isn't only dominating the glass, as the Bears are receiving plenty of protection at the rim from their big men to rank 14th overall in blocks per game (6.8). Both
Kingsley Okoroh (3 BPG) and
Kameron Rooks (2.25 BPG) rank within the Top 50 across the NCAA for blocked shots per game, and Okoroh is 36th overall for total blocks with 12.
RABB'S RETURN
Highly heralded sophomore
Ivan Rabb made his return to the Cal lineup for the first time this season against San Diego State, where he came off the bench and logged a team-high 30 minutes of action. Though Rabb had just three points in the first half on a 3-5 performance at the charity stripe, he finished the game only two points shy of his career-high total with 19 points. The AP Preseason All-American logged his 13th collegiate double-double with 11 rebounds on the night while adding two blocks, an assist and a steal. Dating back to 2015-16, Rabb has a double-double in six of his last eight games, including two consecutive since he returned to the lineup.
CHARLIE BUCKETS
Charlie Moore scored 38 points to break Shareef Abdur-Rahim's 20-year-old freshman scoring record en route to Cal's 75-65 overtime victory against UC Irvine. The Cal rookie went 10-20 from the field and an impressive 15-17 at the charity stripe to top Abdur-Rahim's Cal record of 33 points as a freshman, set against Northern Arizona on Nov. 25, 1995. Moore's points were the most by a Cal player since Jerome Randle had 39 at Washington State on Jan. 14, 2010, and the fourth-highest total among all freshmen in Pac-12 history. His 38 points were the fifth-most in NCAA Division I action, and the most by any Pac-12 player through two weeks of the season.
Moore was named Pac-12 Player of the Week for his effort against UC Irvine, becoming the first freshman to win the award since Arizona's Allonzo Trier on Dec. 14, 2015. Moore is Cal's first frosh to earn conference Player of the Week honors since Leon Powe on Jan. 26, 2004.
NO MOUTE POINT
After averaging just 1.2 points through 67 games in his first three seasons with the Golden Bears,
Roger Moute a Bidias is off to a strong start in his final year as a Golden Bear. Through four games this season, he has already matched his single-season high of 3 steals (29 games, 2014-15) and set new single-game career-best totals in points (12), rebounds (7), assists (5) and steals (2). He's tallied 12 points in a game twice this season, first in the home opener vs. South Dakota State and against Wyoming. Moute a Bidias is averaging 8.0 points this season, far above his season-best 1.6 in 2014-15.
WELCOME TO MY HAAS
With Cal's most recent home win, the Bears have extended their homecourt winning streak to 22 games when including a victory from the final contest of the 2014-15 campaign. The run is the second-longest in school history and the seventh-longest current streak in the country.
Cal's Longest Homecourt Win Streaks
1. 26 -- Dec. 27, 1958 to Dec. 16, 1960
2. 22 -- March 1, 2015-current
3. 17 -- Feb. 20, 2011 to Jan. 29, 2012 and Feb. 2, 2002 to Feb. 15, 2003
Nation's Longest Active Homecourt Win Streaks
1. 44 -- Kansas
2. 42 -- Kentucky
T3. 30 -- South Dakota State
T3. 30 -- Stephen F. Austin
5. 27 -- Oregon
6. 23 -- Virginia
7. 22 -- Cal
8. 20 -- Akron
9. 19 -- Indiana
NEXT UP
Cal will play its fourth game in 10 days this Wednesday when the Golden Bears host Louisiana Tech at 6 p.m. Â in Haas Pavilion. The game will be televised live on the Pac-12 Network.
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