Cal Women's Basketball: Bears Rout Nevada

McKayla Williams collects a season-high 20 points in Cal's eighth win of the season

Cal bounced back from Thursday's overtime loss to No. 23 Gonzaga by crushing Nevada 76-49 on Saturday afternoon at Haas Pavilion. That improved Cal's record to 8-2.

Cal guard McKayla Williams, a transfer from Gonzaga, scored a season-high 20 points on 7-for-8 shooting, including 4-for-5 on three-pointers. She also had six rebounds and six assists.

Bears point guard Leilani McIntosh also had a productive game, scoring 17 points while going 3-of-6 on three-pointers and adding eight assists. She also had four turnovers.

"Wish I could control the ball a little better," McIntosh said.

Cal cruised to victory despite being without several players, most notably starting guard Ioanna Krimili and prominent reserve guard Mia Mastrov.

"Right now, with what we have, we're making it work," Williams said.

Cal took control of the game in the opening minutes.  Nevada (5-5) made only one of its first 13 shots from the floor, helping Cal to race out to a 15-2 lead.  The Wolf Pack never threatened thereafter.

"I love the fact that we're 8-2," Coach head coach Charmin Smith said. "We're winning the games we need to win right now. Glad that we got to play a lot of players today."

Williams and McIntosh played all 45 minutes of Thursday's overtime loss to Gonzaga, and they were on the court longer than Smith would have liked Saturday.  Williams played 33 minutes and McIntosh played 32.

Cal limited Nevada to 28.1% shooting for the game, but Smith won't happy with the fact that the Wolf Pack had 17 offensive rebounds or that Cal turned the ball over 20 times.

The Bears were 12-for-28 from three-point range.

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