The World - News from Dec. 29, 2001

Solomon Hughes scored 14 points and Jamal Sampson had a career-high 15 rebounds as California moved into the championship game of its own Golden Bear Classic with a sloppy 69-54 win over Harvard on Friday at Berkeley.

In the teams’ first meeting in 31 years, Cal won its fourth consecutive overall despite shooting only 35% from the field and committing 16 turnovers.

The Bears (8-1) face Penn State, a 66-49 winner over Coppin State, in the championship game tonight.

Patrick Harvey led all scorers with 24 points for the Crimson (7-5), who committed 24 turnovers and shot 37% from the field.

Cal played its first game with 6-foot-10 freshman forward Amit Tamir, a 22-year-old from Jerusalem who sat out the first eight games for playing alongside professionals as a member of the Israeli national team. In 18 minutes, Tamir scored six points, but committed three turnovers and had four fouls.

Arizona State 77, Canisius 54--Chad Prewitt scored 16 points and grabbed nine rebounds as the Sun Devils (6-4) used their best defensive effort of the season to beat the Golden Griffins (1-6) at Tempe, Ariz.

The win put the Sun Devils into tonight’s championship game of the ASU azcentral.com Classic against Northwestern (8-2), which beat Louisiana-Lafayette, 52-51, in the other first-round game.

Arizona State ran off 10 consecutive points to take a 33-21 lead with 4:57 left in the first half and led, 41-28, at intermission.

(BEGIN TEXT OF INFOBOX / INFOGRAPHIC)

STANDINGS

(tabular data not included)