BERKELEY – The California men's basketball team is back in Haas Pavilion this week to host the Oregon schools, starting with a clash against the Ducks at 7 p.m. PST on Wednesday night.
 
Cal (3-15, 2-5 Pac-12) will look to continue its recent success at home, where it went 3-1 during a four-game homestand from Dec. 21-Jan. 6 before being swept on the road by Washington State and Washington this past week. Oregon (10-8, 4-3) has won three of its past five since resuming Pac-12 play and most recently knocked off No. 9 Arizona 87-68 in Eugene on Jan. 14. The Ducks are 1-2 in just three true road games at this point in the season.
 
Ted Robinson and Don MacLean will have the call for the Pac-12 Network.
 
Wednesday's game is International Night, fitting of a matchup between two schools with a combined 10 student-athletes who have hometowns listed outside of the United States. All six of Cal's international student-athletes will participate in a postgame Q&A session in the Haas Pavilion Club Room.
 
GAME INFORMATION

• Date & Time: Wednesday, January 18 | 7 p.m. PST
• Location: Berkeley, California | Haas Pavilion
• Watch: Pac-12 Network | Ted Robinson (PxP) & Don MacLean (Analyst)
• Listen: 810 AM & The Varsity App | Rich Cellini (PxP)
• Live Stats: StatBroadcast

 
NOTEWORTHY

• Cal's last home win against the Ducks came on Feb. 11, 2016. Oregon won the following nine straight games in the head-to-head series, including four in Berkeley, before the Bears most recently topped the Ducks 78-64 in Eugene on Feb. 12, 2022.
• The Bears are averaging 12.7 assists per game in their past seven games, 3.8 more than they averaged over the first 11 contests of the season (8.9). They've tallied 14-plus assists four times in that seven-game span dating back to Dec. 18, including a season-high 21 against Stanford on Jan. 6.
• Grant Newell scored a career-high 21 points and added 10 rebounds in an overtime loss at Washington on Jan. 14 for his second double-double of the season. Newell is the first Cal freshman with multiple double-doubles in the same season since Ivan Rabb (12) and Jaylen Brown (4) did so during the 2015-16 campaign. Newell is averaging 10.3 points and 5.3 rebounds per game since Dec. 10.
• Cal is sixth in the Pac-12 in 3-point field-goal percentage defense (31.6%) and has held foes to 29.4% in 10 games since Dec. 4.
• The Bears shot 52.5% (102-of-194) from the floor and 51.9% from 3-point range during its most recent four-game homestand on Dec. 21-Jan. 6.
• Leading scorer Devin Askew (16.1 PPG) has missed six of the past nine games, including four in a row, due to illness and injury. Askew is averaging 18.3 PPG in three Pac-12 games played.
• Veteran guards Joel Brown and DeJuan Clayton have anchored Cal's perimeter in Askew's absence. Brown is averaging 9.6 PPG, 3.4 RPG and 3.8 APG in nine games since Dec. 7 while Clayton has averaged 11.6 PPG and a 4-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio in five games since making his Cal debut.
• Cal and Oregon head coaches Mark Fox and Dana Altman are both Eastern New Mexico alumni. Fox ('91) graduated 11 years after Altman.

 
UP NEXT
The Bears wrap up their week at home against Oregon State on Sunday, Jan. 22. Tipoff is slated for noon PST on the Pac-12 Network.
 
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