Venters leads Eastern Washington against Cal after 33-point outing

Eastern Washington Eagles (3-5) at California Golden Bears (0-9, 0-2 Pac-12)

Berkeley, California; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Eastern Washington faces the California Golden Bears after Steele Venters scored 33 points in Eastern Washington's 78-70 victory over the North Dakota State Bison.

The Golden Bears have gone 0-5 in home games. Cal gives up 67.6 points and has been outscored by 8.9 points per game.

The Eagles are 0-3 on the road. Eastern Washington is seventh in the Big Sky scoring 67.1 points per game and is shooting 42.9%.

TOP PERFORMERS: Devin Askew is scoring 18.3 points per game and averaging 3.8 rebounds for the Golden Bears. Lars Thiemann is averaging 12.9 points and 6.4 rebounds while shooting 56.4% for Cal.

Venters is shooting 45.0% and averaging 14.9 points for the Eagles. Angelo Allegri is averaging 9.9 points for Eastern Washington.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.