Wildcats snap Cal's win streak

Theo Robertson scored a career-high 27 points for the Golden Bears (14-7, 6-3), who had their three-game winning streak snapped.

Wise personally outscored Cal 7-2 in the final 52 seconds to lift the Wildcats. He broke a 69-69 tie with a bucket, then added five more points, including two free throws to ice it with 10 seconds left.

Coming off a victory at Arizona State on Thursday night, the Golden Bears were looking for their first road sweep of the Arizona schools, which joined the league in 1978-79.

Cal weathered an early flurry to take a 34-32 halftime lead. But the Wildcats surged ahead on Wise’s 3-pointer on the first possession of the second half.

Then Williams hit a pair of free throws and a layup to give the Wildcats a 39-34 lead, and sold-out McKale Center was rocking.

Cal rallied, and the teams dueled down the stretch, with seven lead changes in the final 15 minutes.

The final minutes were chaotic, until Wise took control.

Cal’s Omondi Amoke scored to give the Bears a 67-65 lead with 4:13 to play, and neither team scored a bucket until Williams dunked on a feed from Jamelle Horne to tie it at 69-69 with 1:15 to play.

Thirty seconds later, Wise sliced down the left side of the lane and hit a running bank shot to give the Wildcats a 71-69 lead.

With 40 seconds left, Wise fouled Jerome Randle beyond the arc. Randle, a 93-percent shooter from the line, hit all three shots to put the Bears up by a point.

Wise responded by driving on Randle, scoring and drawing a foul. Wise, an 89-percent free-throw shooter, hit the foul shot to put Arizona up 74-72 with 26 seconds left.

Robertson dribbled the ball out of bounds on the next possession, and the Bears were forced to foul Wise, who knocked down two shots to ice the game.