[12] The team lived up to the expectations, finishing the regular season 282 and being ranked as high as No. April Phillips joined the Cal women's basketball staff as an assistant coach in April 2019 and enters her second full season in 2020-21. Kenny Brooks, Virginia Tech (137). A mainstay on the Golden Bear bench for over a decade, Charmin Smith was named head coach of the Cal womens basketball team on June 21, 2019.Smith becomes the 10th head coach in Cal womens basketball history after spending the last 12 seasons as an assistant on the Golden Bear staff, including serving as the programs associate head coach since 2012. Smith arrived at Cal for the 2007-08 under head coach Joanne Boyle and remained on staff when Lindsay Gottlieb became head coach in 2011-12. After three years, Smith left the Farm for Berkeley and joined the Golden Bear staff for the 2007-08 season. 2022-23 Women's Basketball Roster - California Golden Bears Athletics University of California Athletics 2022-23 Women's Basketball Roster Go To Coaching Staff Print Roster Layout: Choose A Season: Sort By: Footer Video Platform powered by CBS Sports Digital Ad Blocker Detected Thanks for visiting calbears.com! The California Golden Bears women's basketball team is the women's college basketball team of the University of California, Berkeley. 13 Duke and No. Its unlikely that Cal pulls off the upset in either of this weekends games, but a win would feel like a breath of fresh air for Smith and her team. Woj: Cavs make landmark hire with Lindsay Gottlieb (1:58) Adrian Wojnarowski explains the impact of the Cavaliers' decision to hire Cal women's basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb as an assistant coach. 8 Virginia Tech. [12] UCSB won both the regular season Big West championship and the conference tournament championship for 200809, which secured an invitation to the NCAA tournament. Jayda Curry led Cal with 16 points while playing all 40 minutes, and she made one three-pointer. Smith, Paul 8 Utes to Haas Pavilion to cap off a daunting weekend home stretch. The woes date to the beginning of Pac-12 play, as Cal womens basketball has won just one of its previous six games. The Bears completed their second upset in the same week as just four days later, they defeated 5-seeded and No. 20 Arkansas on November 24 and then a win over No. Smith experienced a number of successes in her first year as head coach, leading the Golden Bears to three upsets over higher-ranked opponents. California was invited the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2009, as an 8 seed. Strength and Conditioning Coach: . She also oversaw the signing of the seventh-ranked recruiting class in the nation, the programs highest-ranked class since 2009. And nearly 50 games in, there is still no sign that Smith has developed a team that is capable of even middling Pac-12 competitiveness. Bears' season is over after they let a 9-point lead in the third quarter slip away. Following her collegiate playing career, Smith joined the professional ranks in the ABL from 1997-98 as a member of the Portland Power and played three years in the WNBA, along with one year in the Swedish Basketball League. The Golden Bears were ranked #13 in the AP pre-season poll, their highest ranking since 2009. 14 Arizona this past Friday. Gottlieb explained, "I knew that it was the perfect thing for me because it combined kind of my nerdiness and love of the X's and O's with the ability to impact 18- to 22-year-olds in a really significant way. He was a Cal beat writer for many of those years. However, this was a conference tournament game so it does not extend her active streak of 51 straight regular-season games with at least one made three-pointer. Reed, Heidi A list of so many great coaches have received that award before me obviously (including) Muffet McGraw.. Division regular season champion Lindsay Catherine Gottlieb (born October 2, 1977) is an American basketball coach who is the women's head coach for the USC Trojans of the Pac-12 Conference.She was previously the head coach of the California Golden Bears women's team before becoming an assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).. Gottlieb began her head coaching career with the UC . Contact William Cooke at[emailprotected]. The Ducks earned a spot in the postseason for just the second time in the last nine years in 2009-10, advancing to the third round of the WNIT. The season is over for Cals womens basketball team. During Smith's tenure as an assistant with Stanford, the Cardinal posted an 87-16 (.845) record and made a pair of NCAA Elite Eight appearances. 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The Bears were ranked as high as 8th in the national polls and set a then-Pac-10 women's basketball attendance record, with 10,525 witnessing Cal's 6058 loss to Stanford at Haas Pavilion. Spending her senior year at Scarsdale High School on the bench with a torn ACL led her to view the game from a different perspective, and to consider coaching. 8 Utah, has lost just one game this season and is perched atop the conference standings, having won its first thirteen games. The Bears were no better from long distance, making just one of their 10 shots from beyond the arc. charminsmith@berkeley.edu. The 30-year-old Gottlieb was just the fourth head coach in UCSB history, and replaced retiring long-time coach, Mark French. https://t.co/oFlIM70FX6", "Lindsay Gottlieb Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Northern California", "Award-Winning Basketball Coach Lindsay Gottlieb to Speak in Scarsdale", Dudek, Melissa, Dream Job: Lindsay Gottlieb Has an Ever-Growing List of Reasons She Loves Cal, UCSB Names Lindsay Gottlieb Head Women's Basketball Coach, UCSB Upends Gonzaga With Strong Defensive Effort, UCSB Captures 11th Big West tournament Title in Past 13 Seasons, UCSB Falls to Stanfurd in NCAA Tournament, Gottlieb Named Big West Coach of the Year, Gauchos Run Through Big West tournament Halted by UC Davis, Joanne Boyle is Named Head Coach at Virginia, Golden Bears Stopped By No. [2], In 2005, Boyle was hired as the head coach of the University of California, and she brought Gottlieb with her to Berkeley as her top assistant. [3] She earned her 100th career victory on February 3, 2013. "We just struggled through the third and fourth quarters," Smith said. A mainstay on the Golden Bear bench for over a decade, Charmin Smith was named head coach of the Cal womens basketball team on June 21, 2019. [24], With almost the entire team returning for the 201213 season, expectations were high, and the Bears were ranked #13 in the AP pre-season poll, their highest ranking since 2009. Most notably, Utah junior forward Alissa Pili is the conference's Player of the Year and eighth-year coach Lynne Roberts is the Coach of the Year. April Phillips joined the Cal women's basketball staff as an assistant coach in April 2019.Phillips comes to Cal after spending the last season at Arizona and previous coaching stints at Loyola Marymount and the University of New Haven.During her time in Tucson, Phillips helped Arizona to an impressive 2018-19 campaign in which the Wildcats captured the 2019 WNIT Championship and increased their win total by 18 from the previous season. Daunting Pac-12 matchups to come for Cal womens basketball. [2], On May 15, 2008, Gottlieb was named head coach of the University of California, Santa Barbara. After an 03 conference start that left them two games under .500, the Bears started to find their form, going 125 the rest of the way including the Pac-10 tournament. Women's Basketball Schedule Roster Stats Additional Links. 25 in the final USA TodayESPN women's basketball poll, and Joanne Boyle and Devannei Hampton received Pac-10 Coach and Player of the Year honors, respectively.[9][10]. She stood as the California women's all-time rebounding leader and the school's all-time scoring leader (men or women) until 2019. Influence all student-athletes to graduate with a professional degree. The Bears, who finished with a 13-17 overall record, won two more games than they did last season, and Smith can see the improvement. WSU is assured a berth in the NCAA tournament, but Cal needed to win the conference tournament to get an NCAA tournament berth. Editor's Picks. [30] The Bears beat LSU to advance to the Elite Eight for the first time,[31] and then earned their first trip to the Final Four trip with a thrilling 65-62 overtime victory over Andy Landers' Georgia Bulldogs at the Spokane Arena in Spokane, WA. 2 Stanfurd, 75-51, California Falls Short at No. 2022-23 Women's Basketball Roster - USC Athletics USC Athletics Main Navigation Menu Sport Navigation Menu News Ticker Buy Tickets Instagram Opens in new window Twitter Opens in new window Facebook Opens in new window 2022-23 USC Women's Basketball Roster Print Download 2022-23_USC_WBB_roster.pdf Roster Layout: Choose A Season: Sort By: Footer The win over the Sun Devils made the Golden Bears just the second 12-seed to win a game in the Pac-12 Tournament. She has served on the Womens Basketball Coaches Association Board of Directors and was hired in April 2019 to serve as an assistant coach for the WNBAs New York Liberty. Lutje Schipholt, Jayda The Official Site of the California (PA) Vulcans, Video Platform powered by CBS Sports Digital, Distinguished Service Award Nomination Form. Although Alexis Gray-Lawson had to sit out the NIT opener because of an injury suffered in the Pac-10 tournament, the Bears edged UC Davis in overtime. In 200910 the Bears brought in a top 10 recruiting class to make up for the losses of Walker and Hampton. Harada will be embarking on his fifth season with the Titans in the fall of 2021. The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy. Smiths efforts also saw three players named to the Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll and another three receive All-Pac-12 Honors. [39] She has set an unequivocal goal of making the University of California Women's Basketball team one of the elite programs in the country.[40][41][42]. Gottlieb was named Pac-12 Coach of the Year by the media, and was one of the four finalists for the Naismith National Coach of the Year. As the fifth head coach in program history, Bishop has guided CPP to six NCAA Tournament appearances, which includes three Sweet Sixteen showings (2011, 2014, 2015), two Elite Eight appearances (2011, 2014) and a . University of California, Santa Cruz . 22-ranked Arizona State in the opening round of the 2020 Pac-12 Womens Basketball Tournament in Las Vegas. [8][9], Gottlieb followed in the tradition of both her parents and attended an Ivy League college, in her case Brown University. [15] The following summer, Layshia Clarendon was drafted ninth overall in the 2013 WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever. 24 Colorado will come to Berkeley for Smiths 50th. Elsnitz, Kemery The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy. They have two children, a son (b. 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. Smith took over in the summer of 2019, after former head coach Lindsay Gottlieb led the Bears to a 20 win season in her last of eight seasons at the helm. Stevens, Karisma A former team MVP as a player at the University of Louisville, Turner-Lewis served as an assistant coach in NCAA Division I for more than 10 years. They led in the opening minutes against undefeated UConn Huskies but ultimately fell to the eventual national champions. Mar 22 TBA WBB. The program has been to the NCAA tournament a total of nine times, and won three conference championships. Jobs usually . The 10th-seeded Golden Bears let a nine-point second-half lead slip away and lost to No. The following year, the 24-year-old Gottlieb was asked by the head coach of the University of Richmond, Joanne Boyle, to be her top assistant. SOUTH BEND Two days after steering Notre Dame to an Atlantic Coast Conference womens basketball title, Niele Ivey also has some new hardware of her own. Top Stories. Of the 15 McDonalds All-Americans in Cal womens basketball history, Smith has helped sign 13 of them since joining the Cal staff in 2007, including an impressive haul in 2009 with a class that featured four All-Americans that served as the foundation to the Bears 2013 NCAA Final Four run.