Cal (8-20, 2-13 Pac-12) vs. Washington (18-10, 8-7 Pac-12)

Saturday, Feb. 24 | 1:30 PM PT | Haas Pavilion | Berkeley, Calif.
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California men's basketball returns to Pete Newell Court for the final time this season, hosting the Washington Huskies in their regular-season home finale Saturday afternoon. The actions tips off at 1:30 p.m. from Haas Pavilion and airs live on Pac-12 Networks and KGO 810 AM.

California will honor its five seniors -- Nick Hamilton, Derek King, Marcus Lee, Kingsley Okoroh and Cole Welle -- as part of the team's annual Senior Day ceremony. The quintet has a combined 231 appearances for the Bears and boasts honors such as NABC Honors Court laurels and a 3.85 cumulative GPA (Hamilton), the program's single-season blocked shots leader (Okoroh) and Senior CLASS Award and Pac-12 SAAC representative (Lee). Additionally, two members of this year's class -- Hamilton and Welle -- earned scholarships this season after walking on to join the Bears at the start of their careers.

As the Bears prepare to send their seniors off in style, Cal's rookies are help leading a resurgence that has seen four of the team's last five games decided by four or less points. In that span, Cal's rookie starters are averaging 9.5 points or better, led by 13.0 points from Justice Sueing, including a 25-point performance recently against Washington State. Darius McNeill is averaging 10.4 points and Juhwan Harris-Dyson ins averaging 9.6 in the span, while McNeill is also six three-pointers away from setting the Cal freshman record to surpass Allen Crabbe's 2011 record of 62.

HOW TO FOLLOW THE ACTION: 
Saturday's game airs live on the Pac-12 Networks with commentary and game analysis from the duo of Daron Sutton and Don MacLean. The game is also available for viewing on the Pac-12 Now app and at www.Pac-12.com/live. The California Golden Bears Sports Network will offer play-by-play and analysis, as well as post-game interviews, from Todd McKim and Jay John live on KGO 810 AM. Live stats, full broadcast details and more can be accessed via the Cal men's basketball schedule page on CalBears.com, and fans can follow the Bears on social media via @CalMBball on Twitter and Instagram, and at Facebook.com/CalMBball.
 

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SCOUTING THE HUSKIES

Last Meeting: Washington topped Cal, 66-56, on Jan. 11 in Seattle.
• Justice Sueing scored a career-high 27 points as the lone Bear in double figures against the Huskies.
• Juhwan Harris-Dyson logged a career-best 5 steals
• The Golden Bears forced 20 Washington turnovers
Series Record: Cal leads, 84-79 
UW's 2017-18 Record: 18-10, 8-7 Pac-12
UW's Last Game: The Huskies were downed by Stanford, 94-78, on Thursday
• Jaylen Nowell leads the Huskies with 15.3 points per game in Pac-12 action.
• Noah Dickerson is averaging a double-double in the last five games with 14.6 points and 10.4 rebounds.
• Nowell and Dickerson are two of four Huskies scoring in double figures in conference play, with Matisse Thybulle averaging 11.1 points and David Crisp averaging 10.7.
• Washington leads the Pac-12 in total blocks (142) and blocked shots per fame (5.1). The Huskies also lead the league in steals per game (8.4) and three-point field goal defense (33.1 percent), plus turnovers forced (15.32).
• The Huskies are 1-4 in their last five games after winning four-straight from Jan. 20 to Feb. 3, including a sweep of the Arizona schools at home.

CAL RECORDS AGAINST WASHINGTON
Points: 33, Ryan Anderson, Feb. 2, 2008
33, Jerome Randle, Feb. 11, 2010
Rebounds: 21, Ansley Truitt, Feb. 13, 1971
FG: 14, Michael Pitts, Feb. 24, 1983
14, Gene Ransom, Jan. 12, 1978
3P: 6, Amit Tamir, Jan. 2, 2004
FT: 14, Patrick Christopher, Jan. 16, 2010

SERIES NOTES
Record at Cal: 43-26
Last 10 meetings: 7-3
Most points, Cal: 96, 1982-83
Most points, UW: 109, 2010-11
Largest margin, Cal: 40, 1959-60
Largest margin, UW: 33, 2004-05
Longest Cal win streak: 8, 1956-57 to 1959-60
Longest UW win streak: 8, 1950-51 to 1952-53
Current Streak: 1, Washington

LAST TIME OUT

Washington State edged Cal on a late layup, taking a 78-76 victory from the Bears.
• Justice Sueing scored 20+ points for the sixth time this season, logging 25 points.
• Sueing matched his career-high four three-pointers made.
• Juhwan Harris-Dyson's career-high 7 assists were the most by any Golden bear this season.
• Roman Davis set career-high totals in points (15) and rebounds (6).
• Marcus Lee's 14 points came on a team season-best 7-for-7 clip from the field. 

IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS

As a team, Cal ranks in the nation's top 30 for:
• Blocked Shots  per Game -- 29th, 4.9
• Offensive Rebounds per Game -- 11th, 13.43
• Total Blocks -- 28th, 137

Individually, Cal student-athletes rank in the Top 50 for:
• Blocked Shots Per Game -- Kingsley Okoroh (43rd, 2.00)
• Field Goal Percentage -- Marcus Lee (32nd, 57.6)
• Free Throw Attempts -- Don Coleman (39th, 179)
• Offensive Rebounds Per Game -- Marcus Lee (25th, 3.29)
• Total Blocks -- Kingsley Okoroh (42nd, 56) 

ROOKIE REVIVAL

Though each of Cal's three freshman starters has struggled in conference play, the Bears are seeing a resurgence from their rookies as of late.

Justice Sueing, who was limited under double figures in two consecutive games at Colorado and Utah, has since re-emerged to average 20.0 points in the last two games, including 25 points against Washington State. Sueing matched a career-high four three-pointers, bringing his season total to 40, only five three-pointers shy of top six among Cal's freshman record holders. Sueing is currently ranked ninth in the Cal freshman records with 392 points, surpassing both Jason Kidd (378) and Lamond Murray (387) with his production against the Cougs. The rookie from Honolulu, Hawai'i is also making his way up the freshman record ranks at 10th with 136 field goals made and fourth with 43 steals.

Juhwan Harris Dyson is averaging 11.5 points in his last two appearances, reaching double figures six times in Pac-12 play, including a career-high 13 points against Stanford. He is the lone Golden Bear frosh with a double-double this season, recording 10 points and 11 rebounds at Washington State. Harris-Dyson nearly became the first player to notch a triple-double in more than 30 seasons with a 10-point, 9-rebound and 7-assist performance at home against Washington State.

Darius McNeill has 57 three-pointers, just six shy of setting a new Cal freshman record to surpass Allen Crabbe's 62 three-point makes as a freshman in 2011. After going 0-8 from three-point range against Oregon on Feb. 1, McNeill has made multiple threes in four of the last five games and is shooting 30.5 percent (11-36) from three in that span.

ROOKIES IN THE RECORD BOOK

California's rookies are fast approaching some of the program's freshman-record totals. Among them:

THREE-POINT FG MADE
1.     Allen Crabbe (2011)    62
2.     Ryan Drew (1968)    60
3.     Ryan Anderson (2007)    58
4.    Darius McNeill (2018)    57
5.     Shantay Legans (2000)    47
6.     Charlie Moore (2017)    45
...
    Justice Sueing    40

POINTS
1.     Shareef Abdur-Rahim (1996)    590
2.     Ryan Anderson (2007)    539
3.    Jaylen Brown (2016)    498
...
5.    Ivan Rabb (2016)    426
6.    Charlie Moore (2017)    414
    Allen Crabbe (2011)    414
8.    Leon Powe (2004)    409
9.    Justice Sueing (2018)    392
10.    Lamond Murray (1992)    387

FIELD GOALS MADE
1.     Shareef Abdur-Rahim (1996)    206
2.    Ryan Anderson (2007)    189
3.    Brian Hendrick (1990)    175
...
6.    Lamond Murray (1992)    152
7.    Leon Powe (2004)    142
8.    Michael Pitts (1980)    141
9.    Allen Crabbe (2011)    139
10.    Justice Sueing (2018)    136
    Gene Ransom (2011)    136

STEALS
1.     Jason Kidd (1993)    110
2.     Shareef Abdur-Rahim (1996)    52
3.     Shantay Legans (2000)    51
4.    Justice Sueing (2018)    43
5.    Butch Hays (1981)    42
    Michael Chavez (1980)    42
...
    Darius McNeill    33
    Juhwan Harris-Dyson    31

FREE THROWS MADE
1.     Shareef Abdur-Rahim (1996)    170
2.    Jaylen Brown (2016)    142
3.    Brian Hendrick (1990)    128
...
9.    Tremaine Fowlkes (1995)    94
10.    Jason Kidd (1993)    88
..
    Justice Sueing (2018)    80

SNEAKING UP THE SEASON RECORDS

Along with setting freshman records, the Cal squad is also making its way up several categories in the single-season records:

THREE-POINT FG MADE
1.     Jerome Randle (2010)    92
2.    Jordan Mathews (2016)    89
3.    Allen Crabbe (2012)    83
...
8.    Jabari Bird (2017)    65
T9.    Allen Crabbe (2013)    64
    Ryan Anderson (2008)    64
    Bill Elleby (1992)    64
...
    Darius McNeill (2018)    57

STEALS
1.     Jason Kidd (1993)    110
2.     Jason Kidd (1994)    94
3.    Gene Ransom (1978)    63
...
8.    Jorge Gutierrez (2011)    54
T9.    Anwar McQueen (1997)    52
    Shareef Abdur-Rahim (1996)    52
...
    Justice Sueing (2018)    43

BLOCKED SHOTS
1.     Kingsley Okoroh (2017)    74
2.    David Kravish (2014)    73
3.    David Kravish (2013)    63
4.    Michael Stewart (1994)    59
5.    Kingsley Okoroh    56
6.    Michael Stewart (1997)    56
7.    Jamal Sampson (2002)    54
T8.    Marcus Lee    49 
    David Kravish (2015)    49
    Michael Stewart (1995)    49

NEXT UP

The last weekend of the regular season concludes in the Grand Canyon State. The Bears head to Tempe, Ariz. for a tilt with the Arizona State Sun Devils on Thursday, March 1 at 6 p.m. PT, airing live on ESPNU. Cal takes on Arizona in the regular-season finale on Saturday, March 3 at 3:30 p.m. The game airs live on the Pac-12 Networks.