LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida (AP) - so much for reconstruction.
Harper Kamp scored 13 points, Allen Crabbe had 12, and a young team of California beat No. 21 Temple 57-50 on Thursday evening at the round opening in the Old Spice classic for a spark of huge early season.
"Since one day simply told us people that we are going to surprise many people", said the Cal Center Markhuri Sanders-Frisian, who had eight points. " Everyone thought that we had that not a power of fire coming back because we've lost a lot of good players last year.I think that this victory has opened a lot of eyes to people worldwide. »
Golden Bear (3-0) have been propelled by a series of 16-1 towards the end of the second half to help defending champions of the PAC-10 hand owls (2-1) their first loss of the season. Crabbe has torn the ball far Rhalir Jefferson with approximately 30 seconds remaining, and he hit two free throws cal a six-point lead and seal the victory.
LaVoy Allen had 13 points and Jefferson scored 10 for a team of temple offline conference calendar only becomes more sévères.Cal play our Lady the vendredi.Temple will face the Georgia in support of the loser of the tournament.
OWL has crossed by its first two games, but their schedules is not get any easier. Duke No. 1, no. 7 Villanova, no. 16 Georgetown and Maryland are all future owls.
Not exactly the beginning that they hoped for this difficult segment.
"We had shots some fairly open failed us", said Allen. "The offence began to get stagnant a peu.Nous have done a poor job on defense."We gave them a couple open 3 and they have frappé.Il killed us.We did a bad job keeping the head and a bad job out of kilter finishing.»
The opener was a game relatively tight most of the way in which.
CAL descended came out of an advance of seven points in a few minutes, but sank rapidement.Wyatt Khalif had consecutive baskets at the end of the first half, giving the temple advance 25 - 23 at the break.
Owls 45-38 less than eight minutes on consecutive layups by Jefferson took place.Which would correspond to head more big than either team would hold.
Bear gold responded by going on a 16-1 execution, including 12 lines, with solid defence streaky shooting during night, they were otherwise froid.Temple has not been a field goal for almost six minutes during this stretch.
"Defend us well these last seven minutes and they have the shots they had to do," owls coach Fran Dunphy.
This is a huge victory for cal program which would be almost complete reconstruction mode this season.
Five elderly Conference title team last season are gone, including the player PAC - 10 year and scorer Jerome Randle, the second leading scorer Patrick Christopher and the top 3 points shooter Theo Robertson.Tous play a key role in first Conference entitled school in 50 years.
Leaving a roster of young, inexperienced featuring six students from first year to a team that won consecutive NCAA tournament berths in the first two seasons of coach Mike Montgomery.
Their toughest test yet certainly was a success.
"I don't know what a rebuilding year," Montgomery said. ""All that I know is we start the two first out bench with a whole lot more, and I never fact than before.
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