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Cal Women's Basketball: Bears Fall Short Against Colorado

Cal commits too many turnovers to stay competitive in loss at home

Jake Curtis

Cal Women's Basketball: Bears Fall Short Against Colorado
Cal Women's Basketball: Bears Fall Short Against Colorado /

Cal stayed close for a half but could not keep up with Colorado, which posted a 73-56 women's basketball victory over the Golden Bears in Berkeley on Friday night.

Ball-handling doomed the Bears (10-7, 1-5 Pac-12), who committed 23 turnovers. Colorado (16-6, 5-6 Pac-12) outscored Cal 25-1 on points off turnovers.

Freshman Jayda Curry led the Bears in scoring with 16 points, but she was just 3-for-14 from the field.  As a team, Cal shot 38.6% from the floor.

Leilani McIntosh added 12 points and Jazlen Green had 10, but those two combined to commit 12 turnovers.

The Bears were within a point when Curry buried a three-pointer at the 8:36 mark of the third quarter. But the Buffaloes dominated the rest of the quarter and entered the fourth quarter with a 58-42 lead.

Cal was accurate from the foul line, making 17 of 20 free throws (85%), but Colorado was even better, hitting 13 of 15 from the foul line (86.5%).

Colorado was nationally ranked earlier in the season when it was 13-0. The Buffaloes are still in line to get an NCAA tournament bid.

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Cover photo of Jazlen Green is by Kelley L. Cox, KLC Fotos

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Jake Curtis
JAKE CURTIS

Jake Curtis worked in the San Francisco Chronicle sports department for 27 years, covering virtually every sport, including numerous Final Fours, several college football national championship games, an NBA Finals, world championship boxing matches and a World Cup. He was a Cal beat writer for many of those years, and won awards for his feature stories.

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