California Golden Bears | ||||
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University | University of California, Berkeley | |||
Head coach | Charmin Smith (3rd season) | |||
Conference | ACC | |||
Location | Berkeley, California | |||
Arena | Haas Pavilion (capacity: 11,877) | |||
Nickname | Golden Bears | |||
Student section | The Bench | |||
Colors | Blue and gold[1] | |||
Uniforms | ||||
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NCAA tournament Final Four | ||||
2013 | ||||
NCAA tournament appearances | ||||
1990, 1992, 1993, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 | ||||
AIAW tournament Elite Eight | ||||
1982 | ||||
AIAW tournament appearances | ||||
1982 | ||||
Conference regular season champions | ||||
1981, 1982, 2013 |
The California Golden Bears women's basketball team is the women's college basketball team of the University of California, Berkeley. The program has been to the NCAA tournament a total of nine times, and won three conference championships. The current head coach is Charmin Smith, who was hired on June 21, 2019.[2]
The team plays its home games at Haas Pavilion, which was built on top of the old Harmon Gymnasium using money donated in part by the owners of Levi-Strauss.[3] The arena was originally known as Men's Gymnasium and then later Harmon Gymnasium until the late 1990s when it went through massive renovations which displaced the team for two seasons.