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Basketball: Nevada game string
By Jeff Faraudo
Saturday, December 20th, 2008 at 3:06 pm in Basketball, Gameday.
FINAL: Cal wins 75-66. Randle finished with 23 points, 12 of them in the final 3:30. Christopher scored 16 points, Robertson and Boykin 10 apiece. Cal improved to 8-2. Nevada, now 6-5, got 33 points from Armon Johnson, 13 of them in the final 2:24. Luke Babbitt, the freshman forward, had 14 points and seven rebounds.
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1:19 2nd H: Randle just scored on a drive and free throw and the lead is 70-59.
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1:48 2nd H: Well, maybe it’s not quite over, yet. Randle is going to the foul line for the Bears, but Nevada’s Armon Johnson, who has 26 points, hit back-to-back 3-pointers, cutting the 14-point margin to 65-57. Stay tuned.
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2:39 2nd H: This game may be over. Cal leads 65-51 after scoring 11 straight points in a blur of 1:15. After the previous timeout, Robertson swished another 3-pointer, then Christopher dunked a 40-foot alley-oop pass from Ranndle on the break, and Mark Fox was forced to use another timeout.
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3:29 2nd H: Christopher and Randle just hit back-to-back 3-pointers in a span of 24 seconds and Cal has opened a 60-51 lead, its biggest of the game. Robertson, who came off the bench at the previous timeout without having scored, now has seven points, including a 3-pointer of his own.
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7:53 2nd H: Kamp came out of the game at the last timeout and Nevada immediately got the ball inside to freshman Luke Babbitt, who scored twice, closing the margin to 47-44. Kamp is returning to the court after this timeout. So is Theo Robertson, who still hasn’t scored today.
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9:49 2nd H: Cal’s offense finally is loosening up. The Bears have scored on six straight possessions and have their biggest lead, 44-38, after a 3-pointer by Randle.
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11:33 2nd H: Timeout on the court and Cal leads 39-36 after a shot from the key by freshman Jorge Gutierrez. Cal still is struggling to stop Nevada penetration. But the Bears’ offense, at least, is functioning better. They’ve scored on their past four possessions.
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12:54 2nd H: Cal just re-took the lead 35-34 on a layup by Christopher off a nice feed to the rim by Randle. Nevada has missed its past four shots. Neither team is north of 36 percent from the field.
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15:24 2nd H: Nevada leads 34-31. Bears have just 10 field goals for the game. Their shooting percentage has dipped to 32.3 percent and the nation’s most efficient 3-point shooting team is just 2-for-7 from beyond the arc. Cal seems tentative and has little rhythm to its offensive game.
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17:58 2nd H: Not a good start to the second half for the Bears. Nevada point guard Armon Johnson has a personal 7-0 scoring run going, and the Wolf Pack has zoomed into a 32-29 lead. The Bears have missed their first three shots, all from the perimeter, and Nevada is looking confident. Montgomery just replaced Wilkes and Kamp during the timeout.
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HALFTIME: Cal leads 29-25. The Bears’ biggest lead was five points, their biggest deficit two. Cal shot 36 percent in the half, Nevada 35.7 percent. Rebounds wound up about even. The difference: Cal outscored the Wolf Pack 9-4 at the free throw line. Patrick Christopher’s nine points are the most by anyone on either team. This is a game the Bears can lose. Nevada’s quickness is an issue at both ends of the floor. The Wolf Pack has scored five first-half baskets on dribble-drives to the basket. In the locker room, Mike Montgomery is sure to be talking about defense at the point of attack, one of his favorite phrases.
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3:43 1st H: Bears’ lead is 21-20. Jamal Boykin hit a 3-pointer a few moments ago, and is now 3-for-3 for the season. Neither team is shooting well: Cal is 7-for-20 (35 percent), Nevada 9-for-25 (36 percent). Cal has a one-point lead, but the pace definitely belongs to Nevada.
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7:52 1st H: Cal went 7-0 on the Wolf Pack, with Patrick Christopher hitting a 3-pointer, for a 15-10 lead. The Bears are now up 17-14. Omondi Amoke has come off the bench and contributed four points.
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11:15 1st H: Nevada leads 10-8. Center Jordan Wilkes went out with his second foul at 14:19. With or without him, the Bears haven’t rebounded well. They’re shooting 3-for-13 and, aside from Jerome Randle, they’re 1-for-10. Some of it may be rust from the 10-day layoff, some of it may be Nevada’s good defensive quickness.
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15:59 1st H: It’s 2-2. Honest. Cal is shooting 1-for-6, Nevada 1-for-5. Not much more to tell.
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LINEUPS: No changes in the Bears’ starting five: Jerome Randle, Patrick Christopher, Theo Robertson, Jamal Boykin and Jordan Wilkes. Nevada also is going with its usual starting five.
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RECORDS: Cal is 7-2, Nevada 6-4.
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December 20th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Perhaps you can answer this important question.
Cal men’s hoops has 12 players on scholarship. The NCAA allows 13. Nobody graduates after this season, yet Cal has committed 2 more scholarships for next yeat (to Bak Bak and Markhuri Sanders-Frison. This would mean we’d have 14 players on scholarship. How can this be possible?
There is nobody on the team who would/should be leaving for the NBA, and I don’t believe a coach can simply tell a player to leave since he’s not playing up to expectations. What is Coach Montgomery to do?
Thanks for shedding light on this important subject. We all know that recruiting is 75% of the battle, so this issue merits some focus.
Tom
Concord, CA
December 20th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Scholarships are awarded on an annual basis. Players who are not cutting it are advised to look elsewhere. Often, the school will honor the scholarship (giving them a free ride) while removing them from the team to make room for someone else. This is particularly true where the athlete has suffered from injury.
December 21st, 2008 at 12:16 am
Southseasbear is on the right track. There’s a lot of time between now and next spring and the math tells us that for sure one current scholarship player won’t be on the team next year. Too early to know for sure, but health status could impact things. And understand this is not a unique situation; teams often find themselves in this circumstance, especially with a new coach on board. It will all work itself out.
December 21st, 2008 at 9:59 am
Well, I do recall that Jordy Geli from Spain (I’m pretty sure I just blistered his name) and Sam Rayburn from Portland were awarded Medical scholarships, or whatever the technical term is. But the point is, they really were injured. At least, that’s the way it was sold to the NCAA. I’ve always thought that the NCAA only grants teams “extra” scholarships in this instance where a scholarship player has suffered a career injury.
And this makes sense – think about it… if a team brings in 20 scholarship players and then just moves the scholarships of the lower 7 players over to some other sort of scholarship, then isn’t that ‘shirking’ the entire scholarship limitation situation? It makes schools accountable, and makes coaches value the scholarships that they have.
In addition to the medical situation, I understand how a young player who is not getting time may choose to transfer to another school in order to get playing time. This happens all the time, and the player has to sit out a year in between the two schools. This frees up a scholarship for the team. But, I cannot immediately think of a player for whom this would be true. We have many juniors on the team. It is rare for players to leave before their senior year.
So, who’s gonna leave, and how?
I guess nobody wants to speculate on this forum. I understand the sensitivity of it.
December 21st, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Well, Nikola Knezevic is a redshirt junior so if he graduates on time it’s entirely possible he will head off to Europe where he could possibly play professionally rather than apply for grad school just so he can sit on the bench.
December 21st, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Does anyone know what happened to Jordan Filmore, who was a walk-on redshirt last year, out of Acalanes High School in Lafayette?
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:22 am
check DVC, Diablo Valley College, roster. Thx, Tony – that makes sense.