“We learned so much as freshmen,” said forward Justice Sueing, one of seven freshmen on the roster and one of three who started most of the season. “Next year, I think we have to use all of that knowledge and bounce back. Next year, 100 percent, it won’t be like this.”
Cal doesn’t have a player taller than 6-foot-8 returning, and the tallest, freshman Grant Anticevich, averaged 1.5 points and 1.6 rebounds per game and had three blocked shots in 171 minutes.
The Bears do return quite a bit on the perimeter, including Sueing and guards Darius McNeill and Juhwan Harris-Dyson — each of whom showed signs of becoming solid Pac-12 players.