No. 20 Cal at Brown
Sunday, Nov. 19 | Noon ET/9 AM PT | Pizzitola Sports Center | Providence, RI
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island – The Cal women's basketball team continues its tour of the East Coast on Sunday, taking on Brown University at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT at the Pizzitola Sports Center in Providence. The Golden Bears (1-1, 0-0  Pac-12) are coming off their first loss of the season, falling to top-ranked  Connecticut,  82-47, on Friday night in Storrs. Brown (2-0,  0-0 Ivy) is unbeaten to start the season, coming  off a 78-55 victory over Central Connecticut State University on Thursday night.

Sunday's game marks a homecoming for Cal head coach Lindsay Gottlieb, a 1999 graduate of Brown and member of the women's basketball team. This will be the first ever meeting between the schools and Cal's first contest against an Ivy League opponent since an 80-39 victory over Dartmouth on December 20, 2011.

Ranked No. 20 in the AP Top 25 Poll for the second consecutive week, Cal is led in scoring this season by junior forward Kristine Anigwe, a two-time All-America honorable mention. Anigwe is averaging 15.5 points per game this season and is coming off a 14-point, nine-rebound performance against the Huskies.

Brown, who qualified for the inaugural Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament last season, will squaring off against a Pac-12 opponent for just the second time in program history, falling to Washington, 70-55, on December 27, 1989.

FOLLOW THE ACTION
Sunday's game will be streamed live on the Ivy League Digital Network. Live stats will also be available, along with additional updates and behind-the-scenes information on the Bears social media accounts (Twitter: @CalWBBall, Instagram: @CalWBBall).

LAST TIME OUT
The unanimous No. 1 team in the nation proved to be too much for the Bears on Friday night, as the Cal women's basketball team suffered its first loss of the season in an 82-47 defeat to top-ranked Connecticut.

A preseason candidate for national player of the year, Kristine Anigwe led Cal with 14 points and had a game-high nine rebounds. Jaelyn Brown added eight points off the bench for the Bears, who outscored UConn, 20-15, in the fourth quarter. Six different players scored in double-figures for the  Huskies, including 14 apiece from Crystal Dangerfield, Napheesa Collier, and Kia Nurse.

"This [loss to UConn] will help us in so many different ways," said Gottlieb following Friday's loss. "We talked about it that it exposes what our weaknesses are and shows a lot of good things about us. Right now, there's UConn and then everybody else. If we can get close to the top of the pack of everyone else, that's what we want."

The first game in the start of a four-year series between the schools, Cal senior Mikayla Cowling scored the Bears' first basket of the night, tying the game at 2-2 off a backdoor cut. The lay-in marked the 1000^th career point for Cowling, who became the 29^th player in Cal women's basketball history to reach the milestone.

Cowling scored again to give the Bears a 4-3 advantage, Cal's only lead of the night, and ended the night with six points and a game-high six assists.

Redshirt sophomore Sara Anastasieska registered a milestone of her own, making her first ever appearance for the Golden Bears. The Australian international who sat out last season after transferring from UTSA, made the most of her first minutes in blue and gold, going 2-3 from beyond the arc and finishing the game with six points.

SCOUTING THE BROWN BEARS
Coming off a pair of wins to start the season, Brown returns all five starters and 94 percent of its scoring from last year's team that went 17-13 and earned a berth in the inaugural Ivy League Tournament. Despite falling to Penn in the tournament semifinals, the Bears qualified for the Women's Basketball Invitational and earned the program's first ever postseason win with a victory over University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Sophomore guard Justine Gaziano leads the team in scoring this season, averaging an Ivy League-best 22.5 points per game. Gaziano had a team-high 22 points in Thursday's win at Central Connecticut while junior Taylor Will added 21 points, seven rebounds, and four assists. San Francisco native and 2016 Ivy League Rookie of the Year Shayna Mehta is third on  the team in scoring, averaging 14.5 points per  game on the year.

Head coach Sarah Behn is in her fourth season as head coach of the Bears, having led Brown to back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in a decade. A former standout at Boston College, Behn saw her squad set single-season program records last year for total points, field goals made, and free throw percentage. The Bears were picked to finish fourth in the 2017-18 Ivy League Preseason Coaches poll.
 
UP NEXT
The Golden Bears return to Haas Pavilion next week, hosting the annual Cal Classic. The four-team tournament kicks off on Friday, November 24, with the Golden Bears hosting Manhattan College at 2 p.m. PT. Friday's second game will feature Coppin State and No. 23 Missouri in a 4 p.m. PT tipoff. The winners from Friday's game will meet at 2 p.m. on Saturday in the Cal Classic championship game, with the consolation slated for Noon PT.

2017-18 TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW
Season, group and single-game tickets for the 2017-18 women's basketball season are now on sale. Season tickets start as low as $40 ($2.67 per game, 15 games) for youth and seniors and $80 ($5.33 per game, 15 games) for adult general admission tickets. Single-game tickets are available starting at $4 for youth and seniors and $5 for adults, while flex and partial plans are also available purchase. For more information, call the Gold Standard Sales and Service line at (800) GO BEARS (462-3277) or visit the CalBears.com ticket page.

JOIN THE JOURNEY: THE RETURN OF THISISCALBASKETBALL.COM
Cal's one-of-a-kind multimedia fan site, ThisIsCalBasketball.com, is back for its seventh season and once again features an unprecedented look into the inner workings of the personalities behind the Cal women's basketball's roster. Visitors to ThisIsCalBasketball.com can get an in-depth look at the personalities behind the jerseys, from action and portrait photos to bio videos and conversations between current players and alumnae.

STAY POSTED
Keep up-to-date on the latest Cal women's basketball news by following the Bears on social media. View behind-the-scenes photos and videos and learn more about Cal and its student-athletes on Twitter (@CalWBball), Instagram (@CalWBball) and Facebook (Facebook.com/CalWBball).