By Jeff Faraudo, Cal Sports Report: Grant Newell was six years old when Cal coaching icon Pete Newell died in 2008 at the age of 93. So you can’t really blame the Bears’ freshman forward for not having any familiarity with his legendary namesake.
“All I really know is he won a national championship here at Cal, if I’m not mistaken,” Newell said. “I didn’t know all that until I got here, until I saw the last name on the court. I was kind of curious. That’s pretty much all I know about him.”
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