The California women's basketball team will play its lone exhibition game prior to the start of the 2025-25 regular season when it hosts Westmont on Tuesday at Haas Pavilion at 7 p.m. PT.
 
The Golden Bears last played Westmont on Nov. 2, 2023, in an 81-62 exhibition win.
 
The regular season gets underway next Monday when the Bears take on No. 19 Vanderbilt in the Oui-Play 2025 event in Paris, which tips off at 11:30 a.m. PT on ESPNU.

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• The Bears are coming off their best season under head coach Charmin Smith in which they:
• • Earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2018-19
  • Won 25 games for the first time since 2012-13
  • Maintained an Associated Press Top 25 ranking for eight straight weeks (going as high as No. 18)
  • Set a program record for home wins in a season (16), going 16-1 at Haas Pavilion
  • Set a program record for 3-pointers in a season (297)
  • Defeated multiple ranked teams
  • Advanced to the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament
• The Bears brought in three transfers this offseason (forward Naya Ojukwu/Morgan State, guard Mjracle Sheppard, LSU and center Sakima Walker/South Carolina).
• Cal welcomes its second-consecutive Top 25 (ESPN) recruiting class that features two ESPN HoopGurlz Top 100 players in McDonald's All-American Aliyahna "Puff" Morris (No. 24) and Taylor Barnes (No. 70) along with Grace McCallop and Isis Johnson-Musah.
• Morris is Cal's first McDonald's All-American since Kristine Anigwe (2015).
• Junior guard Lulu Twidale returns as the ACC's top-ranked 3-pointer shooter coming off a season in which she made 94 triples, which ranks second on Cal's all-time single-season list.