Cal Hosts Miami To Wrap ACC Play

The California women's basketball team (23-7, 11-6 ACC) will look for its third ACC home sweep of the season and to set a program record for home wins in a season when it hosts Miami (14-14, 4-13 ACC) on Sunday afternoon at Haas Pavilion at 2 p.m. PT. The Golden Bears' 15 home wins this season are tied the program record which was set in 2012-13.

The game will mark the last conference and home game of the season as the team will honor its graduating class before and after the game. Seniors and grad students that will be celebrated are: Natalia Ackerman, Claudia Langarita, Ioanna Krimili, Jayda Noble, Michelle Onyiah, Marta Suarez and Kayla Williams.

This marks the first-ever meeting between the programs.

Miami is led by first-year head coach Tricia Cullop after spending the previous 16 seasons at Toledo where she was a six-time Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year. The Hurricanes feature three players who average double figures in scoring led by guard Haley Cavinder who averages 18.3 points per game and is second on the team in rebounding at 6.6 rebounds per game.

Sunday's game will be streamed on ACCNX with Ashlee Jones and Chris Sylvester on the call.

GAME INFORMATION
Date & Time: Sunday, Mar. 2 |2 p.m. PT
Broadcast: ACCNX
Live Stats: StatBroadcast

QUICK HITS
In the win over Georgia Tech on Thursday:

Ioanna Krimili nailed five 3-pointers to move into 10th place on the NCAA's all-time career list passing Belmont's Darby Maggard.
Michelle Onyiah was dominant in the paint, finishing just one point shy of her career high with 24 points (11-of-16) along with 10 rebounds for her ninth double-double of the season
Lulu Twidale added 17 points and tied her career high with six assists.
The win gave locked Cal into the seven seed for next week's ACC Tournament.
Cal shot 53.6% from the floor and had a 42-28 advantage in the paint.

NCAA Team Rankings (as of Feb. 28)

Total 3-pointers made - 14th (265)
3-point makes per game - 19th (8.8)
Field goal percentage - 42nd (45.4)
3-point percentage - 48th (34.7)
Scoring - 59th (73.6)

ACC Milestone Watch

Krimili is just two 3-pointers from entering the ACC's all-time single-season top 10 list
Cal is 16 3-pointers away from entering the ACC's all-time single-season top 10 list

Player Notes

Krimili's 428 career 3-pointers rank 10th on the NCAA's all-time career list. She is just three away from the ninth spot.
Krimili and Twidale are the best 3-point shooting duo in the nation. Krimili is ranked seventh (91) while Twidale is ranked 12th (83) (through Feb. 28). No other school has a duo who have combined for more made 3-pointers or rank in the top 25.
Twidale leads all sophomores in the nation in made 3-pointers (through Feb. 28).
Suarez is 1 of 5 players in the conference to rank in the top 25 in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage (45.2) during ACC play. Her 18 3-pointers in conference play rank second among the five players.
Suarez is one of only 13 forwards in the country and only one of three in the ACC shooting at least 46% from the field and 32% from deep (min. 100 3PTA).
Williams is just one of three players in the nation shooting at least 50.0% from the field, 40.0% from deep and totaling at least 125 assists on the season. The other two are Paige Bueckers (UConn) and Olivia Miles (Notre Dame).
Of Michelle Onyiah's eight double-doubles for the season, seven have occurred during ACC play which rank third in the conference. She has registered a double-double in four of her last seven games.
Onyiah is setting career single-season highs across several categories this year: FG% (60.0), rebounding (7.2) and scoring (11.6). During ACC play she is shooting 60.7% from the field.

Team Notes

At 23-7, Cal is off to its best overall start under Smith and since the 2012-13 season (28-2). Cal's seven road wins are the most under Smith.
Cal is 1 of 33 teams in the country with at least three Quad 1 wins.
Cal is currently 9-6 against teams from the 2024 NCAA Tournament with wins over No. 19 Alabama, No. 21 NC State, Florida State, Gonzaga, Auburn, Arizona, Syracuse and Stanford (twice).
Entering this week, Cal is one of only four schools in the country to have five players averaging over 10 points per game.
Four of the Bears' seven losses this season have come against teams that were ranked or receiving votes at the time.
Cal's 3-point shooting has come alive lately. After a seven-game stretch where it didn't reach double-figure triples, the Bears have hit 10+ in two of the past three games.

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Players Mentioned

Natalia Ackerman

Ioanna Krimili

Claudia Langarita

Jayda Noble

Lulu Twidale

Kayla Williams

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