Pac 12 Preview: Cal

 Pac 12 Preview:  Cal

First day of official practice is Oct 14

Arizona news transfer Bendu Yeaney is eligible immediately, as expected in this pandemic year.

 Last Season:  12-19 overall and 3-15 in conference play.   

Cal has 3 foreign players.  

 The Coaches:

 Charmin Smith with 2 degrees from Stanford returns for her 14th season

Charmin Smith

at Cal and is now the Head Coach for her 2^nd year.  Charmin was named the Head Coach when Lindsay Gottlieb left Cal for the WNBA.  

Kai Felton is back for her 9th year at Cal.  Kai has been an Assistant at Oregon, 2 years, and at USC, 5 years.  

Wendale Farrow is in his 5th season.  

April Phillips is in her 2nd year after one year at Arizona.   April graduated from Xavier playing in the NCAA against Stanford in the famous 4.4 seconds game.  

Losses:  

Alaysia Styles is a 6-3 Sr Forward who averaged 8 points and 4 rebounds.  Styles transferred to Maryland. 

Mi’Cole Clayton who will Grad Transfer to Nebraska after missing several seasons with injuries.  

CJ West averaged 7 points and 6 rebounds.

Jaeyln Brown averaged 15 points and 5 rebounds.  

Sara Anastasieska averaged 8 points. 

Chen Yue averaged 3 points and 3 rebounds

 Additions:

Dalayah Daniels 6-4 F from Washington ranked # 13. 

Dalayah Daniels

Fatou Samb, 6-4 Post from Tx ranked # 51

Alma Elsnitz 5-11 G from Sweden.   Alma scored 16 points per game for her league and played on both the U18 and U19 teams for Sweden.

Sela Heide, 6-7 Post from Washington ( hometown is the Twin Peaks TV show location) ranked # 89  

Ornela Muca, 5-10 Guard from Greece.  

Michelle Onyiah, 6-3 Post from SoCal ranked # 35

The Schedule:   Unknown 

 

The Team:  Cal Bears Roster

Leilani McIntosh, 5-5 Soph Guard who averaged 5 points and 4 assists.  

Cailyn Crocker 5-9 Soph Guard who averaged 7 points.    A note from the Cal Board is that Crocker is out for the season with a foot injury.  To be confirmed when practice starts.  

Jazlen Green 5-11 Soph Guard averaged 9 points and made 48 threes at 37%.

Evelien Lutje Schipholt, 6-2 Soph Forward from the Netherlands.    Last year she averaged  6 points and 6 rebounds.  

Predictions:  

If Crocker is out only 20 points per game return and 40 per game lost.  The team will have 4 sophs with Crocker and 6 Frosh.  No Jrs no Srs.

Although they has a very fine recruiting class, Cal will have a very young team and be building for the future, much like ASU. 

 

 2021 Recruiting:

Mia Mastrov, 5-11 Guard from the East Bay, unranked.

Jayda Curry, 5-6 Point Guard from SoCal, unranked