BERKELEY – The California men's basketball team hosts rival Stanford at 5:30 p.m. PT Saturday after a week off from competition. It is the Golden Bears' home finale at Haas Pavilion, where they are 9-8 this season. The contest will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks.
 
Cal (11-17, 4-13 Pac-12) lost a pair of games to Colorado and Utah at home last week following an impressive road sweep of the Oregon schools on Feb. 9-12. Stanford also fell to both Mountain schools and enters Saturday's game at 15-12 overall and 8-9 in conference play.
 
Cal will recognize five graduating players prior to tip-off Saturday, including Logan Alters, Grant Anticevich, Makale Foreman, Andre Kelly and Jordan Shepherd.
 
All fans 3 and older must either show proof of full vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test to enter the facility.
 
GAME INFORMATION

• Date & Time: Saturday, Feb. 26 | 5:30 p.m. PT
• Watch: Pac-12 Networks | Ted Robinson (PxP) & Don MacLean (Analyst)
• Listen: KGO 810 AM (Tune-In App) | Rich Cellini (PxP) & Todd McKim (Analyst)
• Live Stats: StatBroadcast

 
QUICK HITS

• By playing in Saturday's contest, fifth-year senior Grant Anticevich will break the program record for career games played (136). Anticevich is currently tied with former Golden Bear standout David Kravish (2012-15) with 135 career games played.
• A win Saturday would give Cal its second season with 10-plus home wins in three years under Mark Fox.
• Stanford won the first regular-season clash between the two rivals, 57-50 in Stanford on Feb. 1. Cal's last win against the Cardinal came in year one of the Mark Fox era, a 52-50 victory on Jan. 26, 2020.
• Each of Cal's previous three losses have been by eight points or less, including a 70-62 loss to Colorado and a 60-58 defeat to Utah.
• The Bears are 9-8 at Haas Pavilion this season. All nine home wins came consecutively from Nov. 15-Jan. 2.
• In defeating the Beavers 63-61 on Feb. 9 and the Ducks 78-64 on Feb. 12, Cal earned its first road sweep of the Oregon schools since the 2013-14 season. It was also Cal's first road sweep of any kind since 2015-16.
• Jordan Shepherd scored a career-high 33 points on 9-15 shooting from the floor and 13-15 from the free throw line in the win at Oregon. The 33 points are the most scored by a Pac-12 player this season and the most by a Cal player since Don Coleman had 35 vs. Wichita State on Nov. 20, 2017. Shepherd has scored in double figures 21 times, including 19 of the past 22 games.
• Cal announced on Feb. 4 that senior forward Andre Kelly is expected to miss the remainder of the 2021-22 season with an ankle injury he suffered at USC on Jan. 29. Kelly averaged 13.4 points per game and 8.4 rebounds per game while ranking in the top-11 nationally in field-goal percentage (60.7%) and had played in every game of his college career (113 games) prior to the injury.
• Lars Thiemann has stepped up in Kelly's place, starting all seven games in his absence and averaging 7.7 points and 5.2 rebounds in that span. He went for a career-high 16 points and a season-high eight rebounds vs. Utah on Feb. 19.
• Kuany Kuany had a career-high six blocks vs. Colorado on Feb. 17, falling one shy of tying the school record. He's scored a season-high 10 points in back-to-back games.

 
UP NEXT
Cal will travel to face Arizona State (5 p.m. PT, March 3) and Arizona (2 p.m. PT, March 5). Both games will be televised on the Pac-12 Network.
 
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