Cal Lands Late 3-pointer To Beat LMU In Exhibition Action

Friday, October 16

Westchester, Calif.

6 p.m. PT

California

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LMU (exhib.)

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Team	1	2	F
California	27	33	60
LMU (CA)	31	28	59

Cal players celebrate with Nojus Indrusaitis after his game-winning 3-pointer at LMU

Photo by: CK Hicks/Cal Athletics

Cal Lands Late 3-pointer To Beat LMU In Exhibition Action

10/16/2026 9:26 PM | Men's Basketball

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Nojus Indrusaitis Hit The Winning Three With 6 Seconds Left.

By: Cal Athletics

WESTCHESTER, CALIF. — California men's basketball's Nojus Indrusaitis landed a game-winning 3-pointer from with six seconds left to get the Golden Bears an exhibition win over host Loyola Marymount. The Bears had trailed by 10 in the second half before making a determined push to win it in Westchester.

Cal shot 32.2 percent overall but was 20-of-23 from the line to counter LMU's 44.7 percent offensive effort. The Lions went 13-of-23 from the stripe, and both teams hit just two 3-pointers in the game, highlighted by Indrusaitis' clincher for Cal. LMU outrebounded the Bears 34-29. The Bears were led in scoring by Michael Cooper's 12 points, with Jake Wilkins and Lee Dort scoring 11 each.

The lead changed hands six times in the first half, with Indrusaitis edging the Bears ahead 20-19 with a 4-0 scoring surge all his own. That advantage dissipated with a 5-0 LMU response, and the Lions would grip a 31-27 lead at halftime. LMU was shooting a solid 52 percent from the floor to help hold off the Bears, whose offense production sat at 34.6 percent at halftime. The Lions were also ahead on the boards 18-11 in this first 20 minutes of exhibition action.

The Bears stared down a 10-point deficit in the second half and made a 10-2 rally to get back into the game, down 51-49 with 3:54 to go. An acrobatic alley-oop followed by the and-one from Jake Wilkins nudged Cal into its first lead since the 4:19 mark of the first half, up 53-52 with 3:11 to go. LMU would get three straight trips to there free-throw line next to help get back on top, up 56-53 with 1:57 remaining.

Mantas Kocanas came up clutch with his first basket of the game, hitting down low to make it a one-point game, and in the final minute it was Michael Cooper taking it to the hoop fora 57-56 Cal lead with 57 ticks to go. Again the Lions had a reply, with an equalizer on a free throw and then another go-ahead score in the paint, putting Cal behind 59-57 with 15 seconds left. That put the decider in Cal's hands, setting up Indrusaitis' winning 3-pointer before the Lions' last look sailed off the mark at the buzzer.

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Cal has another exhibition test on tap next week as the Bears head to Corvallis, Oregon, to face former Pac-12 foe Oregon State in a 7 p.m. meeting on Oct. 24.

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