BERKELEY – The California women's basketball team has been selected as one of four programs to compete in the 2025 Invisalign Bay Area Women's Classic at Chase Center in San Francisco on Dec. 21. The Golden Bears will take on Southern California, while the other matchup in the doubleheader will feature Stanford against Oregon. Both games will be broadcast on ESPN with game times announced at a later date.
 
Fans interested in purchasing tickets can do so at www.calbears.com.
 
This will mark the 80th all-time meeting – and first as nonconference opponents since 1986 – between Cal and USC, which have evenly split their last 10 matchups. The Bears' last win against their former Pac-12 Conference foe  came on Feb. 19, 2023, when they defeated then-No. 25 USC, 81-78, in overtime at Haas Pavilion.
 
USC is the third confirmed opponent in the Bears' 2025-26 nonconference schedule. Cal opens next season at the 2025 Oui-Play game in Paris against Vanderbilt on Nov. 3 and will travel to face Missouri in the ACC/SEC Challenge on Dec. 4.
 
Cal is coming off one of its best seasons in recent history in 2024-25; the Bears earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2018-19, won 25 games for the first time since 2012-13, maintained an Associated Press Top 25 ranking for eight straight weeks (going as high as No. 18), set a program record for home wins in a season (16), going 16-1 at Haas Pavilion, defeated multiple ranked teams and advanced to the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament.
 
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