BERKELEY – After concluding a 3-0 homestand to start the season, the California women's basketball team is set to take on Auburn on Friday, Nov. 17, at 5 p.m. PT as part of a two-game road trip. The game marks the first-ever meeting between the two programs.
 
Auburn is in its third year under head coach Johnnie Harris and is coming off a 16-15 record and the team's first postseason appearance in four seasons, having won a first-round matchup in the WNIT. The team returns two full-time starters in Sydney Shaw and Honesty Scott-Grayson. Shaw led the team in assists (71) while Scott-Grayson was second on the team in scoring (12.7 ppg).
 
Friday's game will air on the SEC Network+ with Wiley Ballard and Joe Ciampi on the call.
 
GAME INFORMATION
Date & Time: Friday, Nov. 17 | 5 p.m. PT
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
Live Stream: SEC Network+
 
QUICK HITS

• In Monday's 74-60 win over Cal Poly:
  • Leilani McIntosh passed former Bear and current WNBA player Layshia Clarendon to move up to the eighth spot on Cal's all-time career assists list (399) and is just six away from moving into the seventh spot.
  • Mia Mastrov swiped a career-high five steals. It marked the second game this season a Bear recorded five steals as Marta Suarez had five against Santa Clara.
  • The Bears hit double-digit (10) 3-pointers for the second game this season. Last season Cal hit that mark in just one game. Ioanna Krimili went 4-for-4 from deep while McIntosh added three.
  • Cal forced 33 turnovers, the most in any game since 2009 when it forced 34 turnovers against Idaho St. on Nov. 9.
  • The total turnovers forced were also the third most all time in a game for the Bears since the 1999-00 season.
  • Cal's defense had double-digits steals (15) for the third straight game.
• In two games already this season, Cal's offense has come from multiple players. In both games, four different players scored in double figures, a significant improvement from last season when four players scored in double figures in just four games all season.
• Already through the first three games of the season, the Bears have had 10 or more steals in each game, beating their total (2) from all of last season.
• Early Pac-12 leaders: Martin has seven blocks to rank 2nd overall; Williams' 20 rebounds rank 7th among guards; McIntosh's eight steals rank 5^th; Krimili's eight 3-pointers rank 5th.
• Returners McIntosh and Kemery Martín received 2023-24 Pac-12 preseason All-Conference honorable mention honors.
• The Bears welcome six newcomers to the team: freshmen guards Anastasia Drosouni (Greece) and Lulu Twidale (Australia), junior forward Marta Suárez from Tennessee, senior forward McKayla Williams from Gonzaga and graduate transfers Ila Lane from UCSB and Ioanna Krimili from the University of San Francisco.
• Martín ended the 2022-23 season tied for the team lead with 59 made 3-pointers, which ranked eighth in the Pac-12 and were good for seventh on Cal's all-time single-season list.
• Lane was named to this year's Lisa Leslie Award preseason watch list for the third time in her career. The annual award is given to the country's top center.
• Krimili joins the Bears as one of the top 3-point shooters in the country. Last year she ranked 30th in the nation with 84 made 3-pointers while shooting at a 39.4 percent clip.
• The Bears are coming off an incredibly competitive 13-17 season in which they played the second most ranked opponents (16) in the country. In nine of the 16 ranked games, Cal had a lead or was within single digits with under five minutes left in the game.

 
NEXT UP
Cal stays on the road to take on Florida A&M on Nov. 20.
 
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