Cal Hosts No. 4 Arizona On Filipino Heritage Night
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Lars Thiemann and the Golden Bears host No. 4 Arizona on Thursday night.

MBB2/7/2023 2:19 PM | By: Cal Athletics

Cal Hosts No. 4 Arizona On Filipino Heritage Night

Golden Bears Playing At Home For First Time Since Jan. 22

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BERKELEY – The California men's basketball team will be back in Haas Pavilion for the first time in nearly three weeks when it hosts No. 4 Arizona on Thursday night. The conference contest will tip off at 8 p.m. PST on the Pac-12 Network.
 
Cal will celebrate Filipino Heritage Night at the game. The first 2,000 fans in attendance will receive a free Cal-branded Filipino Heritage Night T-shirt and pregame festivities including food trucks and a beer garden will be available on Spieker Plaza.
 


The Golden Bears (3-20, 2-10 Pac-12) will look to snap a seven-game losing streak as they face an Arizona (21-3, 10-3) squad that has won 12 consecutive meetings with Cal dating back to March 3, 2016.
 
Ted Robinson and Don MacLean will have the call for the Pac-12 Network.
 
GAME INFORMATION
  • Date & Time: Thursday, February 9 | 8 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
  • Despite losses to both Colorado and Utah last week, Cal held the two mountain schools to a combined 37.3% field-goal percentage. The Bears' 3-point field-goal defense was particularly stout against the Buffaloes on Feb. 2, as they held them to 5-of-18 shooting (27.8%) from behind the arc.
  • Cal announced last week that junior guard and leading scorer Devin Askew (15.5 points per game) will miss the remainder of the season after undergoing a 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 was without graduate guard DeJuan Clayton (illness) in both games on its road trip to the mountain schools last week. Clayton, who missed the first 13 games of the season, has recently missed three of the past five. He's averaged 9.6 PPG and 2.7 APG in seven games played, highlighted by 26 points and six assists in a win against Stanford on Jan. 6.
  • Senior center Lars Thiemann scored a career-high 18 points on 9-of-14 shooting from the floor against No. 4 Arizona's talented front court on Dec. 4 in Tucson. It was one of Thiemann's seven games this season in which he has scored 15 points or more.
  • Senior forward Kuany Kuany (4.5 career PPG) is averaging 11.0 PPG in the past 11 games since Dec. 21 and has done so on a steady shooting percentage of 44.7%. Kuany has scored 10-plus points seven times in that span, including three of the past four games.
  • Without Askew and Clayton last week, Cal rotated two guards – Joel Brown and Wrenn Robinson – throughout the contests. Brown logged 33 minutes played against Colorado on Feb. 2 while Robinson, a midseason addition to the roster, played a season-high 16 at Utah on Feb. 5.
  • Cal's most recent victory against the Wildcats was a 74-73 thriller on Jan. 23, 2016 in Berkeley.
  • The last time the Bears defeated an AP top-5-ranked team was on Feb. 1, 2014 when they knocked off No. 1 Arizona 60-58 in Berkeley on Justin Cobbs' game winner with 0.9 seconds remaining.
 
UP NEXT
Cal faces Arizona State for the first and only time during the regular season on Saturday. Tipoff from Haas Pavilion is at 5 p.m. PST on the Pac-12 Network. The Bears will celebrate Black History Month throughout the contest.
 
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