{"id":38000,"date":"2025-11-04T20:19:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/38000\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:19:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:19:58","slug":"california-87-60-cal-state-bakersfield-nov-3-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/38000\/","title":{"rendered":"California 87-60 Cal State Bakersfield (Nov 3, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKELEY, Calif. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4684155\/john-camden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Camden<\/a> scored 22 points and California opened the season with an 87-60 victory over Cal State Bakersfield on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Camden made 7 of 11 shots with three 3-pointers and hit all five of his free throws for the Golden Bears.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4845373\/dai-dai-ames\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dai Dai Ames<\/a> had 18 points on 9-for-15 shooting for Cal and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5196370\/justin-pippen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Pippen<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4683672\/lee-dort\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Dort<\/a> both scored 15.<\/p>\n<p>              Camden scored nine points in the first half to help the Golden Bears take a 37-26 lead. Camden made 2 of 6 from 3-point range before the break while his teammates were 0 for 10. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4703106\/dailin-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dailin Smith<\/a> had 10 first-half points and four of the Roadrunners&#8217; nine baskets.<\/p>\n<p>              Dort had a dunk, Ames buried a jumper and Camden hit a 3-pointer in a 7-2 run to begin the second half and Cal never looked back.<\/p>\n<p>              Smith and reserve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4895782\/ronald-jessamy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ronald Jessamy<\/a> both scored 16 to pace Cal State Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>              Cal shot 54% from the floor and held the Roadrunners to 36%.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212; Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/ap-newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKELEY, Calif. &#8212; \u2014 John Camden scored 22 points and California opened the season with an 87-60 victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-38000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}