California Golden Bears Athletics
Tuesday, December 6
Honolulu, HI
4:00 PM
California
vs
Princeton
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Cal Faces Princeton in Pearl Harbor Invitational
12/4/2016 3:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Cal (6-1) vs. Princeton (2-3)
Tuesday, Dec. 6 | 4 PM PT | Bloch Arena | Honolulu. Hawai'i
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BERKELEY -- With a 25-game home win streak in Berkeley intact, California men's basketball turns its attention to the Aloha State, where the Golden Bears are set for a pair of games at the Pearl Harbor Invitational. The commemorative event tips off with Cal vs. Princeton on Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 4 p.m. PT, live from Bloch Arena at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.The Bears, alongside Princeton, Seton Hall and Hawai'i, are among the four teams who will serve to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the "date which will live in infamy." All four games televised on Fox Sports 1 will air live from Bloch, the historic venue that withstood the attack by Imperial Japan that left more than 2,400 dead and 1,200 wounded on Dec. 7, 1941.
Cal is 0-1 in neutral-site games this season after dropping a game to San Diego State, 77-65, at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento on Nov. 21.
HOW TO FOLLOW THE ACTION: The game will be televised live on Fox Sports 1. The California Golden Bears Sports Network 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 TIGERS
Last Meeting: The Bears posted a 67-57 win over the Tigers in Berkeley on Dec. 13, 2014Series Record: Cal leads, 4-1
Princeton's 2016-17 Record: 2-3
Princeton's Last Game: Lost at VCU, 81-70
• Cuonzo Martin is 1-0 against the Tigers as Cal's head coach. The Bears defeated the Tigers 67-57 in Martin's first season in Berkeley.
• The Bears are 1-1 against the Tigers on neutral ground.
• The Tigers were the top pick in the Ivy League preseason poll.
• Princeton returns 99 percent of its points and minutes from last season.
• 2016 All-Ivy League selections Henry Caruso, Spencer Weisz and Steven Cook return for the Tigers.
• Cook leads Princeton with 13.0 ppg, followed by Devin Cannady (11.2), Caruso (10.6) and Vittorio Reynoso-Avila (10.0).
• The Tigers are shooting 46.7 percent from the floor while holding opponents to a 29.2 percent clip from three-point range.
A LOOK AT THE ALL-TIME SERIES:
1971-72: L, 85-59 (N)
1996-97: W, 55-52 (N)
2001-02: W, 70-58 (H)
2009-10: W, 81-60 (H)
2014-15: W, 67-57 (H)
LAST TIME OUT
The Golden Bears routed the Alcorn State Braves, 83-59, in Haas Pavilion• Cal shot 51.7 percent, going 30-58 from the floor.
• The Bears produced 44 points in the first half, the most of any half this season.
• Ivan Rabb put up career-high point totals for the second consecutive game, upping his best from 25 to 26.
• Roger Moute a Bidias scored a career-best 12 points for the third time this season.
• Don Coleman reached double figures for the first time in his Cal career, adding 10 points
• Cole Welle logged new personal best point (6) and rebound (3) totals
BEARS BUILD ON DEFENSIVE PROWESS
With defense as a staple of head coach Cuonzo Martin's program, California is once again emerging as a force on the floor, where the Bears rank among the nation's elite in five different categories. Cal is 7th in defensive rebounds per game (31.57), and the Bears own an +11.3 rebound margin over their opponents, good for sixth in the nation. Cal's field goal defense is also ninth in the nation as the Bears are limiting opponents to scoring just 35.8 percent of their shots, while the Blue & Gold rank 20th for three point field goal defense (28.0 percent). The Bears are averaging 44.00 total rebounds per game, putting them at 11th in the nation.
RABB STAR
AP Preseason All-American is living up to his billing as of late after logging career-high point totals in back-to-back games. Rabb scored a new best 25 points in Cal's OT win over Louisiana Tech, then followed it up with a 26-point game against Alcorn State. He scored the 26 points on a 10-12 outing from the floor and 6-7 clip at the charity stripe in just 29 minutes.After returning from injury, Rabb posted a career-long four-game double-double streak and currently ranks 15th in the nation and third in the Pac-12 in double-doubles.
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.
Dating back to 2015-16, Rabb has a double-double in eight of his last 11 games. He is averaging 19.8 points and 10.2 rebounds.
KING'S COURT
Kingsley Okoroh is coming off a productive stretch that has seen the junior center set career-highs in four games from Nov. 21 to Nov. 30. The Derby, England product started the string off by setting a personal-best rebound total of 9 against San Diego State, and followed the performance with a career-high 5 blocks against Wyoming on Friday. He capped off the week by matching both his career-best point (10) and rebound (9) totals and setting a new personal-best mark for assists with 3 against Southeastern Louisiana. Against Louisiana Tech, Okoroh set new career-high board (12) and assist (4) totals on top of matching his career-high blocks (5).Okoroh checks in at 20th in the nation in blocks per game (2.86) and 21st for total blocks (20).
WELCOME TO MY HAAS
With Cal's most recent home win, the Bears have extended their homecourt winning streak to 25 games when including a victory from the final contest of the 2014-15 campaign. The run is the second-longest in school history and tied for the sixth-longest current streak in the country.Cal's Longest Homecourt Win Streaks
1. 26 -- Dec. 27, 1958 to Dec. 16, 1960
2. 25 -- 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. 46 -- Kansas
2. 32 -- South Dakota State
3. 31 -- Stephen F. Austin
4. 30 -- Oregon
5. 25 -- Cal
6. 22 -- Akron
7. 21 -- Indiana
NEXT UP
The Bears are set for one more foe at the Pearl Harbor Invitational. They'll take on Seton Hall on Wednesday at 4 p.m. in Bloch Arena before heading home to Berkeley to close out the month of December in Haas Pavilion.
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