California Golden Bears men's basketball
| California Golden Bears men's basketball | |||||||||||||
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| University | University of California, Berkeley | ||||||||||||
| First season | 1907–08; 119 years ago | ||||||||||||
| Athletic director | Jay Larson and Jenny Simon-O'Neill | ||||||||||||
| Head coach | Mark Madsen 3rd season, 48–48 (.500) | ||||||||||||
| Location | Berkeley, California | ||||||||||||
| Arena | Haas Pavilion (capacity: 11,877) | ||||||||||||
| NCAA division | Division I | ||||||||||||
| Conference | ACC | ||||||||||||
| Nickname | Golden Bears | ||||||||||||
| Colors | Blue and gold | ||||||||||||
| Student section | The Bench | ||||||||||||
| All-time record | 1707–1317 (.564) | ||||||||||||
| NCAA tournament record | 20–19 (.513) | ||||||||||||
| NCAA Division I tournament champions | |||||||||||||
| 1959 | |||||||||||||
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| NIT champions | |||||||||||||
| 1999 | |||||||||||||
| Conference regular-season champions | |||||||||||||
| PCC: 1916, 1921, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1932, 1944, 1946, 1957, 1958, 1959 Pac-12: 1960, 2010 | |||||||||||||
| Conference division champions | |||||||||||||
| PCC South: 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1939, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1953 | |||||||||||||
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* vacated by NCAA | |||||||||||||
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.