The California Golden Bears men's basketball hope to make some noise on the hardwood this season. They started off the year with a beatdown of the UC San Diego Tritons.

Can the Cal Golden Bears keep moving up the rankings?

Montgomery is expected to recover quickly after undergoing the undisclosed procedure on Wednesday.

The Cal men's basketball team won the first of their five game Europe tour against the Solna Vikings of Sweden. Allen Crabbe and Robert Thurman led the way for the Bears, with ample support from Brandon Smith, Justin Cobbs, and Richard Solomon.

Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott had already used realignment to expand the conference by two teams and secured an incredible television deal with ESPN, FOX and a conference network. Could his next big step be to reform college athletics and help the big conferences break away from the archaic NCAA?

For the first time in many years, the Bay Area isn't represented in the NCAA Tournament. Besides the always-fun-to-blame East Coast bias, what went wrong?