BERKELEY – Fourth-seeded Cal (12-11, 4-4 in the Pac-12) opens the Pac-12 Championship with a quarterfinal match against fifth-seeded Arizona State (13-12, 4-4 Pac-12) on Thursday at 9 a.m. in Ojai, California. The match between the 33rd-ranked Golden Bears and the 28th-ranked Sun Devils - the third meeting of the teams this season - will be played at Libbey Park.
 
Pac-12 Bay Area will be televise all of Thursday's quarterfinals, with analyst J.B. Long working the Cal-ASU match. Pac-12 Bay Area and the national Pac-12 Network will broadcast Friday's semifinals and Saturday's final.
 
The Pac-12 will provide updated tournament scores on its site here. Fans can also keep track of the Bears' matches on Twitter @CalMensTennis.
 
Poll Position
Cal earned a No. 33 ranking in Tuesday's Oracle ITA team poll. The duo of sophomore Jacob Brumm and freshman Yuta Kikuchi (14-13) is ranked 31st in this week's doubles poll.
 
Last Time: Cal Beats Ducks In Regular-Season Finale
California ended the regular season on a high as the 35th-ranked Golden Bears shut out No. 45 Oregon, 4-0, on Saturday at the Student Tennis Center in Eugene, Oregon. Golden Bear sophomore Jack Molloy clinched the win with a 6-0, 6-2 result over Ty Gentry. Earlier, Cal clinched the doubles point when Mert Zincirli and Ben Draper beat Emmanuel Coste and Armando Soemarno, 7-5, on court three.
 
Draper soon won again in singles, as he topped Roberts, 6-2, 6-1, on court five to double Cal's lead. Cal junior Bjorn Hoffmann then defeated Ethan Young-Smith, 6-3, 6-2, on court six to give the Bears a 3-0 lead, 1 before Molloy completed Cal's win on court two.
 
Scouting the Sun Devils

• ASU lost its last two matches, falling 4-2 at No. 14 UCLA on April 19 and 4-2 at No. 10 USC on April 20 in Los Angeles
• The Sun Devils have won the doubles point in 10 straight dual matches
• Nathan Ponwith is ranked 74th in singles
• In doubles, the pair of Pontwith and Dominik Kellovsky is ranked 12th, while Makey Rakotomalala and Justin Roberts are ranked 77th
• Matt Hill is in his third season as the Sun Devils' head coach

Bears Split With ASU
Cal won its Pac-12 Conference match against Arizona State, 4-2, on March 9 in Berkeley, but the Bears fell to the Sun Devils, 4-3, in the third-place match of the BNP Paribas Open Collegiate Tennis Challenge presented by Oracle on March 16.
 
In the first match at the Hellman Tennis Complex, the Bears withstood the absence of one of its top players and the rare loss of the doubles point to defeat Arizona State, 4-2, as Ben Draper clinched the match at the Hellman Tennis Complex. The Cal sophomore edged the Sun Devils' Justin Roberts, 7-6(4), 7-6(2), in singles to wrap up the victory. Jacob Brumm, another Cal sophomore, sat out due to injury.
 
Brumm played in the second match, in Indian Wells, California, and paired with Yuta Kikuchi to beat the 49th-ranked Nathan Ponwith and Dominik Kellovsk, 6-2, in doubles. Cal secured the doubles point when Paul Barretto and Can Kaya defeated the 55th-ranked Justin Roberts and Makey Rakotomalala, 6-2, on court two. Draper won again, beating Benjamin Hannestad, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3, and Cal junior Bjorn Hoffmann topped, Rakotomalala, 6-2, 6-4. But the Sun Devils won the other four singles matches to beat the Bears.