California Golden Bears men's basketball
| California Golden Bears men's basketball | |||||||||||||
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| University | University of California, Berkeley | ||||||||||||
| First season | 1920 | ||||||||||||
| All-time record | 1,563–1,161 (.574) | ||||||||||||
| Head coach | Mark Madsen (2nd season) | ||||||||||||
| Conference | Atlantic Coast Conference | ||||||||||||
| Location | Berkeley, California | ||||||||||||
| Arena | Haas Pavilion (capacity: 11,877) | ||||||||||||
| Nickname | Golden Bears | ||||||||||||
| Student section | The Bench | ||||||||||||
| Colors | Blue and gold | ||||||||||||
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| NCAA tournament champions | |||||||||||||
| 1959 | |||||||||||||
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| Pre-tournament Premo-Porretta champions | |||||||||||||
| 1927 | |||||||||||||
| Conference regular-season champions | |||||||||||||
| 1916, 1921, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1932, 1944, 1946, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 2010 | |||||||||||||
The California Golden Bears men's basketball team is the men's college basketball team representing the University of California, Berkeley, in NCAA Division I, currently playing in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The program has seen success throughout the years, culminating in a national championship in 1959 under coach Pete Newell, and the team has reached the final four two other times, in 1946 and 1960.
The team plays its home games at Haas Pavilion, which was long known as Harmon Gym before being heavily renovated with money donated in part by the owners of Levi Strauss & Co. The arena was originally known as Men's Gymnasium and then later Harmon Gymnasium until the late 1990s when it went through renovations which displaced the team for two seasons.