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Matt Bradley (pictured) and the Golden Bears host Colorado on Saturday at Haas Pavilion.
MBB2/12/2021 1:36 PM | By: Cal Athletics
Bears Look To Snap Skid Against Colorado
Cal Wraps Up Two-Game Home Stand Saturday on ESPNU
BERKELEY – California will welcome Colorado to Haas Pavilion for a Pac-12 battle at 7 p.m. PT on Saturday, Feb. 13. The contest will be televised on ESPNU with Roxy Bernstein and Adrian Branch on the call.
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The Golden Bears (7-15, 2-13 Pac-12) have lost seven straight games and look to snap that skid against a Colorado (16-5, 10-4 Pac-12) squad that has won three in a row and is 6-2 since the two teams last faced one another on Jan. 14 in Boulder.
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- The home team has proved to have the upper hand in the Cal-Colorado series. Despite owning a 2-14 record when playing in Boulder, Cal is 13-2 against the Buffs in Berkeley.
- The last time Colorado visited Berkeley, Cal earned its most recent win over a nationally-ranked team. The Bears bested then-No. 21 Colorado, 76-62, on Feb. 27, 2020. Matt Bradley scored 26 points in the win – the most by any Bear against Colorado.
- Cal's 60-89 loss to the Buffs on Jan. 14 was its worst margin of defeat this season.
- Cal has played the most conference games among Pac-12 schools at this point in the season with 15.
- Matt Bradley is shooting 53.1 percent from the field (25-for-47) and is averaging 20 points in the past four games. He is tied for second among Pac-12 players with nine 20-point performances despite missing seven total games this season.
- Grant Anticevich snapped himself out of a shooting funk with 18 points vs. Utah on Thursday. The 18 points were more than he totaled in his previous four games combined.
- Four Bears scored in double figures for the second straight game and the fourth time overall this season on Thursday vs. Utah. The balanced attack resulted in Cal's highest point total (75) since scoring 82 vs. Washington on Jan. 9. Included among the double-figure scorers on Thursday was Makale Foreman, who tallied 12 points for his first double-digit scoring effort since Jan. 16.
- Cal has made 85.1 percent (40-of-47) of its free throw attempts over the past three games, including 11-of-13 against Utah. During that same span Matt Bradley is 15-for-15 individually at the line.
- Andre Kelly rebounded from a poor shooting performance at Stanford on Feb. 7 with a 6-for-8 shooting night Thursday and finished with 17 points. Kelly is third in field-goal percentage against conference foes this season (62 percent).
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