After three years, Smith left the Farm for Berkeley and joined the Golden Bear staff for the 2007-08 season. In her first two years in Berkeley, Cal set then-school records for wins in a season, finishing both years with 27-7 marks before Cal pushed itself into elite status with the record-breaking 32-4 Final Four campaign in 2012-13. Highly-regarded throughout the coaching ranks at both the collegiate and professional levels, Smith has played a key role in building Cal into one of the premier programs on the West Coast, handling duties from recruiting and scheduling, to alumni engagement and campus equity and inclusion. The assistant coach will work within the framework of the Evangel University mission statement and the goals of the Evangel Athletic Department to: Influence the Christian growth of all student-athletes. Niele Ivey, Notre Dame (211), 2. Mastrov, who entered the game averaging 2.4 points, provided some unexpected offense for Cal, scoring eight points in a span of less than five minutes during the second quarter. He is the Titans' 11th head coach in the program's 51-year history. "We just struggled through the third and fourth quarters," Smith said. In her first two years in Berkeley, Cal set then-school records for wins in a season, finishing both years with 27-7 marks before Cal pushed itself into elite status with the record-breaking 32-4 Final Four campaign in 2012-13. Mar 10 TBA WBB. The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy. Onyiah, Leilani That was more basketball games. I can do that because I'm so confident in their focus. 21charmin. [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. He is the Titans' 11th head coach in the program's 51-year history. Michelle Onyiah and Mia Mastrov had 10 points apiece for Cal. Harada will be embarking on his fifth season with the Titans in the fall of 2021. Washington Starte took the lead 44-42 when Charlisse Leger-Walker, who scored 23 points, made two technical free throws with 15.5 seconds left in the third quarter following a Flagrant 1 foul called on Onyiah. Copyright 2023 The Daily Californian, The Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved. fmimnaug@calpoly.edu. Smith played an integral role in the development of three of the Pac-10's top posts - Brooke Smith, Jayne Appel and Kristen Newlin - and in the spring of 2007, she switched her focus to working with the Cardinal guards, including three-time Pac-10 Player of the Year Candice Wiggins. Curry, Ornela 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]. "I pretty much just wanted to be playing ball all the time." She began her coaching career in 2003 as an assistant coach at Boston College, where she spent one season before joining Tara Vanderveers coaching staff at Stanford. Smith experienced a number of successes in her first year as head coach, leading the Golden Bears to three upsets over higher-ranked opponents. The talent gap was on full display last Friday in the Bears 43-63 loss to USC, a game in which Cal scored its fewest points by far this season. Over the past two seasons, five Golden Bear guards have earned All-Conference recognition. After three years, Smith left the Farm for Berkeley and joined the Golden Bear staff for the 2007-08 season. The Bears ended the 201112 season with a record of 25-10. Keeping up where Boyle's teams left off, the 201112 Golden Bears returned to the NCAA tournament for the first time in three years, losing in the second round to eventual runners-up Notre Dame. As the referees were assessing the sequence at the monitor, Mulkey could be seen telling them that Battles was talking to her. Pierre, Kai 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. Paul Reed joined the Cal women's basketball program as an assistant coach on April 30, 2021. Holding Pili to 15 or fewer points would be a huge victory and set Cal up for an upset. 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. ND did so without star point guard Olivia Miles, who suffered a knee injury with the Irish trailing 26-22 late in the second quarter. On the hardwood, Smith has helped coach the Bears to the top three individual seasons in program history. [2] Gottlieb scheduled a demanding non-conference season, and the Gauchos pulled off a convincing 59-47 upset of Gonzaga. Cal has had ten 20-win seasons and made nine trips to the NCAA Tournament since Smiths arrival in Berkeley in 2007, highlighted by the programs first trip to the Final Four in 2013. We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here. But she was primarily responsible for working with and developing the Bears' outstanding freshman post players, Ashley Walker and Devanei Hampton. WSU is assured a berth in the NCAA tournament, but Cal needed to win the conference tournament to get an NCAA tournament berth. 8 Virginia Tech. The highlight of the regular season was a 67-55 road victory over arch-rival and perennial women's basketball power #4 ranked Stanford. On January 2, Cal won at home against Arizona State, the Pac-12s only winless team in conference play. The Bears also recorded their best Pac-12 record (17-1) and won their first conference regular-season crown that season. Cal womens basketball head coach Charmin Smith is now in her fourth season in charge of the program. Then, Sunday, the Bears will welcome the No. [2], National champion California Golden Bears women's basketball, 202223 California Golden Bears women's basketball team, AIAW National Division I basketball tournament, "Charmin Smith Named Women's Basketball Coach", "Another Kristine Anigwe record; another hard-fought Cal loss", "Galloway helped build foundation for Cal", "No. The season is over for Cals womens basketball team. Contact William Cooke at[emailprotected]. The Bears made the NCAA Tournament each of three years that Gottlieb was an assistant in Berkeley. 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. To be able to do what I love, basketball, and have this intense impact on people, I felt that was it. Smith has helped lead the Bears to the postseason in 11 of her 13 seasons and was also part of the staff that led the Bears to the 2010 WNIT championship. Ortiz, Claudia Mar 22 TBA WBB. [25] The Bears more than lived up to the expectations, compiling a 32-4 season record, and ending the regular season with a #6 ranking. I think you have to embrace this team's nature of being fun-loving. [15] The following summer, Layshia Clarendon was drafted ninth overall in the 2013 WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever. 14 Arizona this past Friday. McGraw, Iveys Hall of Fame predecessor, took home the honor in 2014 at the end of Notre Dames first season in the ACC and again in 2016. Cal has put together five top-20 recruiting classes in Smiths tenure, which includes three in the top 10 (2009, 2011, and 2020). 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 then dominated play in the fourth quarter to stretch the lead. Email. The 10th-ranked Irish finished 15-3 in league play this season, a game ahead of No. 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. Phillips came to Cal after spending the last season at Arizona and previous coaching stints at Loyola Marymount and the University of New Haven. One-time Cal women's coach Marianne Stanley was part of a 13-member class 2022 elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, it was announced on Saturday. The official Women's Basketball Coach List for the California Golden Bears The official Women's Basketball page for the California Golden Bears. "This year's team would have murdered last year's team," she said. Highly-regarded throughout the coaching ranks at both the collegiate and professional levels, Smith has played a key role in building Cal into one of the premier programs on the West Coast, handling duties from recruiting and scheduling, to alumni engagement and campus equity and inclusion. "I think Cal played an unbelievable game," WSU coach Kamie Ethridge. Before and since then, a conference win has seemed unlikely thanks to Cals subpar offense. 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. [15], During Gottlieb's second season at UCSB, the Gauchos compiled a disappointing 15-17 record. [13] The 15-seed Gauchos were knocked off by the 2 seed, Stanford, in the first round. Romine-Black, Daniel After having four coaches in its first six seasons, the program entered a period of stability in 1979 with the arrival of Gooch Foster, who led the team to eight consecutive winning seasons to begin her tenure. The Cougars shot 59.8% from the field after halftime, and Cal was just 3-for-11 from the floor in the fourth quarter. Despite a heartbreaking early exit from the Pac-10 Tournament at the hands of USC, the Bears went on a successful tournament run en route to their first ever Sweet 16 appearance. The University of Utah women's basketball team made history Saturday afternoon when it upset Stanford to claim a share of the Pac-12 title for the first time ever.. Less than 48 hours later, the . [3] The arena was originally known as Men's Gymnasium and then later Harmon Gymnasium until the late 1990s when it went through massive renovations which displaced the team for two seasons. NCAA Division II Elite Eight. 7 seed Washington State 61-49 on Wednesday night . Head coach Lynne Roberts team is the best in the Pac-12 and one of the best in the nation on the offensive side of the floor, averaging 86.8 points per game this season. [32][33] A tough loss to Louisville in the national semifinal game concluded the team's extraordinary season. Trending Videos. Smith took over in the summer of 2019, after former head coach Lindsay Gottlieb led. [43] Gottlieb became the first NCAA women's head coach to be hired by an NBA team. Smith becamethe 10th head coach in Cal womens basketball history after spending12 seasons as an assistant on the Golden Bear staff, including serving as the programs associate head coach since 2012. More:Status remains uncertain for Notre Dame's Olivia Miles heading into ACC Tournament. Reed, Heidi charminsmith@berkeley.edu. All rights reserved. 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. [19] Gottlieb inherited a very talented, but young team, which had ended the 201011 season losing seven of their last eight games. LOS ANGELES Cal State L.A. has named Tuonisia Turner-Lewis to be the University s next head coach for woman s basketball. Apr 1. The third-year Irish coach was named ACC Coach of the Year on Tuesday evening. Schedule Schedule Feb 15 / Final Women's Basketball 58 at Long Beach State 68 Women's Basketball at Long Beach State February 15, 2023 7:00 p.m. Women's Basketball at Long Beach State February 15, 2023 7:00 p.m. Feb 18 / Final Women's Basketball 45 at UC Santa Barbara 63 Women's Basketball at UC Santa Barbara February 18, 2023 4:00 p.m. The Bears were no better from long distance, making just one of their 10 shots from beyond the arc. Division regular season champion Following 12 consecutive losing seasons from 199394 to 200405, California began a resurgence under former Richmond head coach Joanne Boyle. In short, theyre a top-15 team in the making and Cal may just be the easiest prey of all for Colorado at this point in the season. 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. The current head coach is Charmin Smith, who was hired on June 21, 2019.[2]. Editor's Picks. 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 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. However, the second half success was not enough for an NCAA tournament bid and Cal wound up settling for the WNIT. Under Foster, California won consecutive conference titles in 198081 and 198182, and earned one AIAW and three NCAA tournament berths. [44], Gottlieb was named the women's head coach at the University of Southern California on May 10, 2021. This Friday, 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. [20], Gottlieb's first team at California had no seniors, and started freshmen at point guard and forward. Cal's postgame press conference is below: Cal's 4-14 record in Pac-12 play was the Bears' best conference mark under Smith, and they were very much in Wednesday's game against WSU through three quarters. That same year, she was also awarded her B.A. 8 Utah, has lost just one game this season and is perched atop the conference standings, having won its first thirteen games. 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Guards Jaelyn Brown and MiCole Cayton garnered Pac-12 All-Freshman Honorable Mention at the end of the 2016-17 season and McKenzie Forbes was an All-Freshman honorable mention in 2019.A highly regarded up-and-coming coach with experience in both the Pac-12 and SEC, Farrow joined the Golden Bears staff in 2016 after stints at UCLA and Vanderbilt, where he served in a variety of roles before rising to assistant coach for the Commodores. In 200910 the Bears brought in a top 10 recruiting class to make up for the losses of Walker and Hampton. Senior leader Layshia Clarendon cut her hair into what became a trademark mohawk,[35] and the team wrote, produced, and starred in their own music video, "Started from the Bottom. Titans Dominate UC Davis, Win 70-58 February 23, 2023 Fujika Nimmo scored 25 points, leading the Titans to victory. It is the first time since the Utes joined the league in 2011-12 that someone from Utah . 2023 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. On the hardwood, Smith has helped coach the Bears to the top three individual seasons in program history.