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Christopher scored 19 of his 25 points in the first half to lead the Bears in scoring for the fifth straight game, and was named Most Valuable Player of the Golden Bear Classic.

Saturday's game hadn't yet become Cal's biggest rout of Stanford in nearly 24 years when Jorge Gutierrez, the hero of last season's come-from-behind victory, went to the floor at Haas Pavilion, his right knee buckling.

14. The Bears trailed Stanford by 22 points with 4:33 left in the first half when the guard re-entered the game.

For all of the other issues facing Cal junior Markhuri Sanders-Frison - that he's undersized at 6-foot-7 for a center, that he was sick for two weeks in late November - one stands out from the rest: Through the Bears' first 11 games, Sanders-Frison averaged one foul every 41/2 minutes he was on the floor.

Category: Sports > Winter > Basketball Comments When the UC Santa Barbara men's basketball team called a timeout with 4:54 remaining in the first half, it was already too late.

Kansas guard Xavier Henry shoots over California guard Jerome Randle during the first half of Tuesday night's game at Allen Fieldhouse.

No. 1 Kansas continues is home stand against Pac-10 power California on Tuesday, Dec.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 9:17 p.m. STOCKTON, Calif. - Patrick Christopher had game-high totals of 22 points and nine rebounds Wednesday night to lead California to a 79-54 victory over Pacific.

Category: Sports > Winter > Basketball Comments More than a few NBA scouts made their way out to Haas Pavilion Saturday night to watch Iowa State's Craig Brackins.

Patrick Christopher had 20 points and 11 rebounds, and Jerome Randle added 18 points as California defeated Iowa State 82-63 on Saturday night.

Category: Sports > Winter > Basketball Comments Cal men's basketball coach Mike Montgomery said at the beginning of the season that his team didn't have a powerful inside presence.

Category: Sports > Winter > Basketball Comments Coach Mike Montgomery is back to the drawing board.

Photo credit: AP PHOTO - Denis Poroy No shift in the top four, but we've got a whole lot of movement starting at No.

After suffering two big losses last week, the Golden Bears came home needing to get back into the win column quickly.

Patrick Christopher scored a season-high 23 points, Omondi Amoke added 15 points and eight rebounds and California beat Jacksonville 79-47 on Tuesday night.

Category: Sports > Winter > Basketball Comments The Cal men's basketball team played two games in New York this weekend and returned with three losses.

Evan Turner finished with 26 points, 14 rebounds and six assists, as 15th-ranked Ohio State took a 76-70 win over No.13 California in the consolation game of the 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs.

Cal wasn't searching for a moral victory after Friday's 76-70 loss to Ohio State in the third-place game of the Coaches vs.

It hasn't been a smooth start to the season for California. Its next game doesn't figure to get much easier with second-leading scorer Theo Robertson already ruled out.

California's Jerome Randle celebrates a score as he runs upcourt during the first half of the 2K Sports Classic on November 11 in Berkeley, Calif.