Cal Basketball

Quarterfinals Clash With Colorado

By Cal Athletics

March 11, 2021

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LAS VEGAS – No. 11 California will face third-seeded Colorado in the 2021 Pac-12 Men's Basketball Tournament quarterfinals at 8:30 p.m. PT Thursday, March 11. The game will be televised on ESPN from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas with Dave Pasch and Bill Walton on the call.

The Golden Bears (9-19) led wire-to-wire in a 76-58 win over rival and sixth-seeded Stanford in Wednesday night's first-round clash. Cal became just the second No. 11 seed to win a game at the tournament, joining Washington State, which did the same a year prior at the 2020 tournament. Colorado (20-7) earned a first-round bye as the No. 3 seed. The Buffaloes enter the tournament ranked No. 23 nationally (AP).

HOW TO FOLLOW

Watch: ESPN | Dave Pasch (PxP), Bill Walton (Analyst) & Matt Muehlebach (Sideline)
Listen: KGO 810 AM /TuneIn | Rich Cellini (PxP) & Todd McKim (Analyst)
Live Stats: CalBears.com

QUICK HITS

Cal has won at least one game at the Pac-12 Tournament in five of the past seven seasons.
The Bears most recently advanced past the quarterfinals in 2017.
Cal is 18-22 all-time at the Pac-12 Tournament, including two trips to the championship game in 2006 and 2010.
Cal is 2-0 at the Pac-12 Tournament under head coach Mark Fox.
An 11th-seeded team has never played in the Pac-12 Tournament quarterfinals. Washington State, the No. 11 seed at the 2020 tournament, was scheduled to face No. 3 Arizona State in the quarterfinals before the remainder of the tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Bears and Buffs split two regular-season meetings as both squads won at home. Cal earned one of the most impressive wins of the Pac-12 season on Feb. 13, defeating Colorado 71-62 in Berkeley. Matt Bradley scored a career-high 29 points in the win. Freshman Jalen Celestine chipped in 13 points in the contest as well.
Cal is 0-3 all-time against Colorado at the Pac-12 Tournament.
Bradley was named to the All-Pac-12 Second Team for the second consecutive year on Tuesday. He's averaged 18.4 points per game this season and is second among Pac-12 players with 11 20-point performances, despite missing seven games due to injury.
In three career Pac-12 Tournament games, Bradley has averaged 18 points per game. He scored 19 in Cal's win against Stanford in the first round Wednesday.
Andre Kelly finished the regular season ranked second among Pac-12 players in overall field goal percentage (58.3) and conference-only field goal percentage (60.8). He's scored in double figures in each of the past five games.
Cal has out-rebounded or tied its opponents in six of the past seven games, including a 31-22 advantage against Stanford Wednesday.
The Bears did not have a single Pac-12 game postponed or canceled due to COVID-19 during the regular season.
Grant Anticevich and Makale Foreman announced their decisions to return to Cal as fifth-year seniors in the 2021-22 season on Feb. 24.