The Bulldogs take a three-game winning streak on the road, closing out the non-conference portion of the team's schedule Saturday at Cal. 

Butler (7-3) at California (0-10)
Saturday, Dec. 10; 5PM ET / 2PM PT
Haas Pavilion; Berkeley, Calif.
 
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THE SERIES: First Meeting
• While this is the first meeting between the two programs, it is also the front half of a home-and-home series that will bring Cal to Hinkle Fieldhouse Dec. 9, 2023.
• Butler is 15-11 all-time against current members of the Pac-12 Conference. The Bulldogs' most recent Pac-12 opponent was Stanford in the championship game of the 2019 Hall of Fame Classic in Kansas City; Butler won that match-up, 68-67.
• Butler Athletic Director Barry Collier posted a 4-2 record against Cal in his three seasons at Stanford as an assistant on Mike Montgomery's staff; Collier left Stanford to take the Butler head coaching position in 1989.
 
• Over his last three games, Manny Bates is averaging 20.3 points per game and has made 13 of his 15 free throw attempts.
• Through 10 games, Butler has shot 50 percent or better from the field seven times; the Bulldogs hit the 50-percent mark six times all of last season (31 games). In a similar fashion, Butler already has six games this season shooting 40 percent or better from three-point range, which was only done four times during the 2021-22 season.
• Over the past three games, Butler's starters have played 535 of a possible 600 minutes; Pierce Thomas has accounted for 60 of those 65 bench minutes.
• Butler is 7-0 this season when leading at halftime.
• For the season, Butler is shooting 49.7 percent from the field, which is 16th nationally.
• Butler is committing only 12.1 fouls per game, which is fifth nationally.
• Butler's 5.4 blocks per game are 22nd nationally.
• Over the past seven games, Butler has limited its opponents to 26.9-percent shooting from three-point range (36-134); five of those seven opponents have hit five or less three-pointers.
• Butler is 70-2 over its last 72 non-conference home games.
• DJ Hughes and Myles Wilmoth have been cleared to return to action. Hughes suffered a concussion Nov. 24 vs. BYU, while Wilmoth has yet to play this season (arm). Butler has been without Ali Ali, John-Michael Mulloy, and Jalen Thomas due to injury for the entirety of the regular season thus far.
• Myles Tate (illness) missed Tuesday's win over Yale.
• Chuck Harris posted career-highs of 32 points and six three-pointers in Saturday's win over Tennessee Tech.
• Harris is the first Bulldog to score 30 points in a game since Kamar Baldwin had 36 at Xavier March 7, 2020, and the first Butler player to hit six three-pointers since Jair Bolden had six against Indiana Dec. 19, 2020.
• Butler put five players in double figures Nov. 30 against Kansas State, the second time this season doing so.
• Bates led the Bulldogs with 22 points and 10 rebounds against Kansas State, his third double-double of the young season.
• Bates is 12th nationally in blocks per game at 2.7 per game; his 62.6 field goal percentage is 28th in the NCAA.
• Simas Lukosius handed out a career-high seven assists against Kansas State, which also matched the most by a Butler player this season.
• Harris is now 24th in Butler history in career three-pointers (114).
• Jayden Taylor has scored in double figures in nine of the team's 10 games.
• Harris and Taylor have combined to go 57-for-63 from the free throw line so far this season (90 percent).
• Butler posted a 47-point win over The Citadel Nov. 19, which is the largest margin of victory by the Bulldogs since defeating Western Illinois, 107-46, at Hinkle Fieldhouse Dec. 21, 2017.
• Butler shot 70.4 percent from the field in the 95-67 win over Saint Francis (Pa.) Nov. 17; it was the second-best field goal percentage in program history, trailing only the 71.9 clip from the Nov. 15, 2014 win over Maine.
• The Nov. 19 win over The Citadel included 17 three-pointers, which was just shy of the program-record of 20 and the most since hitting 17 vs. Northern Illinois Dec. 8, 2018.