Thursday, November 5
6:00 PM PT
California
vs
Long Beach State
Cal is coming off a decisive season-opening win on Monday.
Photo by: Iris Wang/Cal Athletics
11/4/2026 10:36 AM | Women's Basketball
Bears Look To Build On Season-Opening Win
The California women's basketball team will look to build off its decisive 80-58 season-opening win over Washington State last Monday when it returns to Haas Pavilion for a matchup against Long Beach State on Thursday at 6 p.m. PT.
The Golden Bears also on a streak of 20-straight regular season nonconference wins at Haas Pavilion - their second best in program history after winning 32 straight between the 2002-03 to 2008-09 seasons.
This marks the 19th overall meeting between the two programs with Long Beach State holding an 11-7 lead in the series which dates back to the 1978-79 season. The Bears have won the last six matchups at home including a 68-45 win in the last edition of the Cal Classic which is now the Raising The B.A.R. Invitational.
Led by first-year head coach Minyon Moore, The Beach feature an almost fully new roster that brings back just one player from last year's squad. Long Beach State welcomed 12 newcomers made up of seven transfers and five fresh-men.
Thursday's game will be streamed on ACCNX with Ashlee Jones and Dave Benz on the call.
GAME INFORMATION
Date & Time: Thursday, Nov. 5|6 p.m. PT
Broadcast: ACCNX
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
QUICK HITS
In the 80-58 season-opening win over Washington State on Monday:
For further coverage of Cal women's basketball, follow the Bears on Twitter/X (@CalWBBall), Instagram (@CalWBBball) and Facebook (/CalWBBall/).
The Golden Bears also on a streak of 20-straight regular season nonconference wins at Haas Pavilion - their second best in program history after winning 32 straight between the 2002-03 to 2008-09 seasons.
This marks the 19th overall meeting between the two programs with Long Beach State holding an 11-7 lead in the series which dates back to the 1978-79 season. The Bears have won the last six matchups at home including a 68-45 win in the last edition of the Cal Classic which is now the Raising The B.A.R. Invitational.
Led by first-year head coach Minyon Moore, The Beach feature an almost fully new roster that brings back just one player from last year's squad. Long Beach State welcomed 12 newcomers made up of seven transfers and five fresh-men.
Thursday's game will be streamed on ACCNX with Ashlee Jones and Dave Benz on the call.
GAME INFORMATION
Date & Time: Thursday, Nov. 5|6 p.m. PT
Broadcast: ACCNX
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
QUICK HITS
In the 80-58 season-opening win over Washington State on Monday:
- Lulu Twidale led the way with game-highs of 26 points, eight rebounds and six 3-pointers.
- She was one of nine players in the country to have at least six 3-pointers in a game so far this early season.
- It marked Twidale's 17th 20+ point game and the seventh with at least six 3-pointers in her career. The eight re-bounds were one off her career high.
- Shannon Dowell impressed in her debut for the Bears as she finished with 17 points along with seven rebounds.
- Ruby Perkins also grabbed seven rebounds along with Albina Syla who had six to round out the four players who brought down at least six boards in the game as Cal outrebounded Washington State 48-34.
- The Bears were aggressive in the paint all night long going to the line 21 times (18-of-21), led by Gisella Maul who went 7-for-8 from the charity stripe.
- Twidale is 76 3-pointers away from breaking into the NCAA top 100 career list.
- Cal returns four of five full-time starters from the 2025-26 team who accounted for 75% of the team's 3-point makes and 58% of its scoring.
- Gisella Maul is coming off a career year in which she had career season-highs in scoring (9.8), rebounding (6.7), assists (2.3) and double-doubles (5).
- The Bears' transfer class includes senior Shannon Dowell (Missouri) who posted two 30+ point and nine 20+ games in 2025-26, junior Albina Syla (Rhode Island) who was named the Atlantic 10 Tournament Most Outstanding Player last year and sophomore Carly Amborn (Stanford) a four-star recruit in high school out of local San Domenico HS in Larkspur, CA.
- This year's roster of Golden Bears features an even 7/7 split of domestic and international players:
- Australia (3): Twidale, Perkins and Zara Russell
- Greece (2): Anastasia Drosouni and Anna Lagonikaki
- Finland (1): Albina Syla
- Serbia (1): Jovana Jevtovic
For further coverage of Cal women's basketball, follow the Bears on Twitter/X (@CalWBBall), Instagram (@CalWBBball) and Facebook (/CalWBBall/).
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