ACC men’s basketball: Cal gets Big Game victory, rare sweep of Stanford in its 72-66 win

BERKELEY — Cal bolstered its NCAA tournament resume and completed a regular-season sweep of rival Stanford for the first time since the 2009-10 campaign with a 72-66 victory in front of 9,020 fans at Haas Pavilion on Saturday afternoon.

The Bears (19-8, 7-7 ACC) never trailed on the way to moving within one victory of its first 20-win season since 2017.

Senior Chris Bell, a native of the East Bay community of Concord, scored 20 points, including three free throws when he was fouled shooting a 3-pointer with 1:14 to play...