williams, zhang on him.loses the ball and yet another turnover for arizona. >> marques: here is jones. aggressiveness. you've got to understand where he is. it's not the rutger league in harlem. this is pac 10 basketball here in tucson, arizona. >> darrin: the bears, lightning quick to dash in off the block. robertson again with the foot work, able to get the bank shot to fall. >> marques: robertson didn't score a point the last time out against arizona state. >> darrin: 6-0 run to retake the lead. 20 seconds remaining. >> marques: derrick williams, the one thing to improve on is the midrange jump shot. they're backing off knowing he's going to try to put it on the floor and put it in the rim. they're waiting for him to come. >> darrin: seven seconds. here is wise. looking for a screen. bank shot doesn't fall. and we are at half-time. >> marques: that's what he was put in the game for, was to shadow nic wise. did a nice job on that possession. >> darrin: what a first half between the two top teams in the pac

max zhang. robertson, his shot is no good.ong with an over-the-back foul. >> marques: max zhang from china. they want him to come in and be aggressive, 7'3", he'll block the shots. he's doing a great job challenging shots and making shooters, change the shots in mid air. that's why he's on the floor. probably 12 to 13 minutes a game max. first unattended. that should be his nickname, 12-minute max. >> darrin: wise wide in the lane. he'll draw a foul. terrific article in "usa today" about max zhang. his idol is yao ming. he's just a puppy. >> marques: played stanford this season. he shot one of those dunks that set the tone for cal. >> darrin: picked out in a turnover. again, the presence of max zhang, the sixth turnover for the wildcats. >> marques: the presence of max zhang, the yupth of this arizona basketball team we've been talking about. right now they have four freshman and a senior on the floor against this experienced cal bear basketball team. >> darrin: randle with a floater. rebounded by wise. inside -- max zhang say

a foul will be called against max zhang. cal came in number one at 3-1. all the teams all the way down to ucla, bruins will host usc later today. and then you've got washington, who is likely going to go and even the record at .500 with a win here. then they will go to ucla on a game you can watch on pac-10 hoops next thursday. ben howland is preparing only for the trojans. he's a one game at a time coach. i'm sure, when that game is over with usc, he'll talk to his fellows and show them this video and say, we're in for a buzz saw when washington comes to pauley. >> marques: 7:30 p.m. matchup against the bruins. another turnover. another example of washington getting down and dirty on the floor. another example of great ball movement. great decision by isaiah thomas. abdul gaddy hasn't done anything spectacular, but he's played a real solid game this afternoon. i think he's really starting to come into his own as a collegiate basketball player. >> steve: jerome randle with his first field goal of the day. >> marques: he's got the kind of scoring mentality

zhang will swing it around. robertson back with a hot hand. gutierrez into the lane. the floater out of bounds off of horne. cal retains possession. subs tuts coming in for arizona. mo mo jones along with kyryl natyazhko. >> marques: right there you saw the impact of the engineers to gutierrez, just didn't have any lip to finish. >> derrin: talk about that injury. a whistle, those of you just joining us, a two-point lead for the second-place team. arizona taking on the top team, derrin horton and marques johnson from the mckale center in tucson, arizona. the students can sense it. the new coach has come in and injected some energy. they've won three in a row coming into this game. talk about early on at a conference schedule, even though they didn't get a lot of wins, it toughened them up as a team. >> marques: one of the toughest schedules in the country. top five for both teams actually. got blown out of some. denver dropped 49 on them. byu. you see what they've done as the months have progressed. they struggled in december. now in january it all started to come tog