CLARION RECORD: 16-5 overall, 5-1 PSAC-West CAL RECORD: 19-6 overall, 6-1 PSAC-West

CLARION LAST GAME: Feb. 5, 2003 – Clarion 74, Edinboro 49 (at Clarion)

CAL LAST GAME: Feb. 8, 2003 – California 78, IUP 65 (at California)

NEXT UP: Clarion is at IUP (8 p.m.) Sat., while Cal is at Lock Haven (5 p.m.) Sat.

CLARION LAST 10 GAMES: 7-3 CAL LAST 10 GAME: 9-1

CLARION-CAL SERIES LAST 10 GAMES: Series tied 5-5 (Includes playoff game)

CLARION-CAL SERIES LAST 10 REGULAR SEASON GAMES: Series tied 5-5

THIS SEASON: Jan. 15 at Cal – Clarion 79, California 72

LAST SEASON: Clarion won 61-59 at Clarion; California won 85-78 at Cal

LAST CAL WIN AT CLARION: Feb. 21, 2001, California 96-95, double overtime.

RECENT CLARION-CAL SERIES HISTORY: Teams have played 30 times since 1988-89 season (Clarion head coach Dr. Ron Righter’s first) with Cal leading the series 20-10 during that stretch … Clarion has had a lot of recent success winning five of the past seven games … Teams met in 1998-99 playoffs with Cal winning 88-64 … Of the 30 games under Righter, 19 have been decided by 10 points or less, 10 by 5 points or less, 9 by three points or less and 5 by 1 point … The last 1-point game was a 96-95 double overtime win by Cal at Clarion Feb 21, 2001 … In the past four seasons including this year the teams have met seven times with the highest margin of victory being 11 points by Clarion in 2000-01 (91-80) … Cal won 13 straight games vs. Clarion from 1989-90 season to 1995-96 season … Since then Clarion has taken 8 of the last 14.

GAME NOTES: The winner of this game will hold sole possession of first place in the PSAC-West … Cal leads Clarion by a ½ game right now with Edinboro 1 back of Cal and a ½ game back of second-place Clarion … Clarion can clinch a PSAC playoff berth with wins over Cal Wednesday and IUP Saturday and a Shippensburg loss to Edinboro Saturday … Cal can clinch a playoff berth with wins over Clarion or Lock Haven and a losses by Shippensburg to Edinboro Saturday and IUP to Clarion Saturday … Cal’s Ryan Stefanski was PSAC-West Player of the Week this past week after helping the Vulcans to a 2-0 record by averaging 20 ppg and hitting 11 of 21 shots including 10 of 18 three-pointers … He had 21 points vs. IUP and 19 vs. Slippery Rock … Clarion’s Rollie Smith had 13 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists in the Golden Eagles lone game last week, the win over Edinboro … Cal has won 7 straight since Clarion beat the Vulcans.

LEADING CLAR SCORERS: Rollie Smith (20.3), Dereck Rankin (11.7), Terrance Vaughns (11.1),

Shamar Green (10.3), Chris Kelley (9.8)

LEADING CLAR FT SHOOTERS: Terrance Vaughns (89.7 – 52-58), Dereck Rankin (84.7 – 50-59)

LEADING CAL SCORERS: Ishmieal Kamara (16.9), Ryan Stefanski (12.9), Tom Frederick (12.3)

LEADING CAL FT SHOOTERS: Ryan Stefanski (95.6 – 43-45), Ishmieal Kamara (84.1 – 116-138)

PSAC LEADERS: Clarion – Smith 3^rd in scoring, 10^th in assists (3.86), 8^th in steals (1.67); Vaughns 1^st in free-throw percentage, T-11^th in steals (1.52); Kelley 4^th in rebounding (8.6), T-2^nd in steals (2.0); Rankin 4^th in free-throw percentage, 15^th in assists (3.14), T-11^th in steals (1.52); Green 15^th in rebounding (6.2). California – Kamara 10^th in scoring, 5^th in free-throw percentage; Stefanski 16^th in scoring; Michael Johnson 8^th in rebounding (7.8), 15^th in steals (1.48).