Cal set to dance

Cal will compete against the state of Mississippi in the first round on Saturday in Los Angeles.

WBB16.01.2025 18:34 PM | By: Cal athletics

Bears receive a larger berth for the NCAA tournament

Berkeley -The California Women’s Basketball team for women was invited to take part in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament and to receive a bid that was announced in the OSPN selection on the Sunday show. The golden bears will be the eight seeds and will compete in Los Angeles in the first round in the first round in the first round on Saturday in the Galen Center in Los Angeles. Tipoff is set to ESPN2 for 2:30 p.m. PT. This is the first meeting between the two programs.

The bear’s last NCAA tournament took place in the 2018-19 season when they reached the second round. This will be Cals 15th all-time trip to the NCAA tournament, with the best run in 2013 coming when the bears reached the last four for the only time in the program history. The bears have a record of 13 to 14 in the NCAA tournament.

In his first season in the Atlantic Coast Conference, Cal put together an impressive curriculum vitae, which has been a program record for home victories (16: 1 in the Haas Pavillon), several victories against opponents and acc weeks swets in a row on the top 25 survey in a row. The bears have a 25-8 overall record and took the 12: 6 game in ACC to take seventh place in the conference. Cal also rose to the quarter -finals of this year’s ACC tournament before it was displaced by Notre Dame No. 6.

This year’s team has Ioanna Crime -Who is the active leader of the country for career 3 points and ACC all-tournament Second Team Pick Marta Suarez. In addition to crime thrilling and Suarez, Cal offers one of the most dynamic teams in the country with three other players who have an average of 10 points per game per game in Michelle Onyiah. Lulu Twidale And Kayla Williams -Es is only one of six teams in the country with five players who achieve double settings on average.

In order to celebrate the team’s invitation to the tournament, the program organized a watch party in the California Memorial Stadium. For a video of the team and fan reaction, please click on HERE.

This is the first appearance in NCAA tournament in Charmin SmithSix seasons as head coach of Cal.

“We will celebrate, we’ll dance, we will enjoy every single moment because I think nothing is guaranteed,” said Smith. “I want you to enjoy this in every single moment as much as possible. It was a lot of fun today. It was a great day. So cool to see our name to know all the time in which our name is mentioned so as not to worry about it. It is a great day for our program.”

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