BERKELEY – California men's tennis gets back to its Pac-12 Conference schedule when the 43rd-ranked Golden Bears host No. 11/15 USC on Friday at 5 p.m. and No. 13/17 UCLA on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Hellman Tennis Complex.
 
The Bears have a 9-7 record (2-0 in the Pac-12), while the Trojans are 11-6 (1-0 Pac-12) and the Bruins are 7-4 (1-0 Pac-12).
 
Admission is free for regular-season home tennis matches at Hellman. Fans can also follow the action via the Hellman live streams/live scores by clicking here and can keep track of all the Bears' matches on Twitter @CalMensTennis.
 
Cal played the Los Angeles schools in nonconference action in L.A. earlier this year, with the Bears losing, 4-2, at UCLA on Feb. 8 and winning, 4-3, at USC on Feb. 9.
 
Last Time: Cal Sweeps Doubleheader
California posted a pair of 4-0 victories on Sunday, as the 43rd-ranked Golden Bears defeated Nevada and then Saint Mary's under a partly cloudy sky at the Hellman Tennis Complex. The two most experienced Bears clinched the wins, with junior Dominic Barretto securing the first result of the day against the Wolf Pack and junior Bjorn Hoffmann wrapping up the afternoon match against the Gaels. Barretto clinched against Nevada with a 6-1, 7-5 victory over Gvidas Motuzas, while Hoffmann ended Cal's long day with a 7-5, 6-1 triumph over Matis Bot of Saint Mary's.

Poll Position
Cal was ranked 43rd in last week's Oracle ITA poll, with the new poll coming out on Tuesday. Also on last week, the duo of sophomore Jacob Brumm and freshman Yuta Kikuchi (13-10 record) was ranked No. 13 and the team of sophomores Paul Barretto and Can Kaya (20-3) was ranked 79th in doubles. New individual rankings are slated for release on April 2.
 
Scouting the Trojans

• USC won at Texas, 4-2, on March 24 in its last match
• Prior to that, the Trojans lost to top-seeded Baylor, 4-2, in the final of the BNP Paribas Open Collegiate Tennis Challenge on March 17
• Six Trojans are ranked in singles in No. 10 Daniel Cukierman, No. 17 Brandon Holt, No. 28 Laurens Verboven, No. 53 Tanner Smith, No. 71 Logan Smith and No. 83 Bradley Frye
• Holt and Riley Smith are ranked 16th in doubles
• Peter Smith is in his 17th season as USC's head coach

Scouting the Bruins

• UCLA hosts LMU on Tuesday and plays at Stanford on Friday
• In the Bruins' last completed match, they beat UC Santa Barbara, 5-2, on March 14
• Four Bruins are ranked in singles in No. 35 Govind Nanda, No. 80 Keegan Smith, No. 92 Maxime Cressey and No. 100 Mathew Tsolakyan
• The doubles team of Cressey and Smith is ranked 36th
• Billy Martin is in his 26th year as UCLA's head coach

Next Time
Cal plays at Utah on April 6 at 2 p.m. MT.