LOS ANGELES – The California men's basketball team will face No. 4 UCLA on Saturday night at Pauley Pavilion. The road contest will tip off at 7:30 p.m. PST on the Pac-12 Network and is the lone regular-season meeting between the Golden Bears and the Bruins in 2022-23.
 
Cal (2-23, 2-13 Pac-12) is coming off a 10th-consecutive defeat at USC on Thursday night while UCLA (22-4, 13-2) heads into the weekend with the nation's longest active home winning streak of 22 straight games, most recently besting Stanford 73-64 a night ago.
 
Ted Robinson and Bill Walton will have the call for the Pac-12 Network.
 
GAME INFORMATION

• Date & Time: Saturday, February 18 | 7:30 p.m. PST
• Location: Los Angeles, California | Pauley Pavilion
• Watch: Pac-12 Network | Ted Robinson (PxP) & Bill Walton (Analyst)
• Listen: 810 AM & The Varsity App | Rich Cellini (PxP)
• Live Stats: StatBroadcast

 
NOTEWORTHY

• Monty Bowser is averaging 13.5 points per game in the past two contests, scoring a career-high 14 against Arizona State on Feb. 11 and 13 at USC on Thursday. They were the first two double-figure scoring games of Bowser's college career (43 career games played).
• Grant Newell is the first Cal freshman with multiple double-doubles (2) in the same season since Ivan Rabb (12) and Jaylen Brown (4) did so in 2015-16.
• Newell and fellow freshman ND Okafor combined for 20 points on 9-of-18 shooting on Thursday at USC. Okafor scored a career-high 11 points in the contest and is shooting 53.5% (30 of 56) from the floor in the past 14 games.
• Kuany Kuany is averaging 10.2 PPG and 4.4 RPG in the past 14 games. Eight of his 14 double-figure scoring efforts have come during the stretch.
• Joel Brown has continued to do the heavy lifting at the point guard position, playing a team-leading 31.8 minutes per game. He dished out 14 assists to just six turnovers in Cal's past three games and has averaged 6.9 PPG since Dec. 7 (4.3 PPG in the previous nine games to start the season).
• Devin Askew will miss the remainder of the season after undergoing successful surgery on a sports hernia on Feb. 1. Askew played in 13 games (all starts) in his first season with the Bears and averaged 15.5 PPG, 3.4 RPG and 3.0 APG, but had missed eight of 12 games leading up to the surgery.
• Cal's last win against an AP top-5 team was on Feb. 1, 2014 when it knocked off No. 1 Arizona 60-58 in Berkeley on Justin Cobbs' game winner with 0.9 seconds left. Cal is 0-2 against AP top-5 teams this season (both vs. Arizona).
• The last time Cal defeated UCLA in Pauley Pavilion was on Feb. 6, 2010. Cal earned a road win against UCLA in 2012, but it came at the L.A. Sports Arena.

 
UP NEXT
The Bears return home to host Washington at 6 p.m. PST on Thursday in Berkeley. The contest will be televised on the Pac-12 Network.
 
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