USC Women’s Basketball To Face Cal At Chase Center In San Francisco
June 25, 2025 | Women's Basketball
Trojans are set to compete at the Invisalign® Bay Area Women’s Classic on December 2 at Chase Center.
SAN FRANCISCO – Chase Center announced today that the venue will host its second annual Invisalign® Bay Area Women's Classic on Sunday, Dec. 21, with USC set to take on California as the second game in a doubleheader at the event. Prior to the Trojans and Golden Bears, Stanford will face Oregon. Both games will be televised by ESPN with game times announced at a later date.
The Invisalign® Bay Area Women's Classic will be a single-admission doubleheader, and fans will only need to purchase one ticket to gain admission to both games. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, June 27 at 12 p.m. with an exclusive presale for Chase Center Insiders on Thursday, June 26 at 2 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at chasecenter.com.
Under the direction of former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant coach Lindsay Gottlieb, the USC women's basketball team is coming off a 2024-25 season that saw the Trojans win the Big Ten regular season championship, earn a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and reach a second straight Elite Eight to finish with a 31-4 overall record. Gottlieb is entering her fifth season with USC and was named a finalist for the Werner Ladder National Coach of the Year award in both 2024 and 2025.
Cal is coming off one of the best seasons in recent program history as the team earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament (No. 8 seed) for the first time since 2018-19, won 25 games for the first time since the 2012-13 season, maintained an Associated Press Top 25 ranking for eight straight weeks (going as high as No. 18) and set a program record for home wins in a season in going 16-1 at Haas Pavilion. The Bears are led by head coach Charmin Smith, a three-time Final Four participant, former WNBA player and Cal's first black female head coach.
Align Technology, makers of the Invisalign® System of clear aligners, is a title partner of the Invisalign® Bay Area Women's Classic that brings elite athletes and passionate fans together to celebrate the power of sport and self-confidence.
About Chase Center
Chase Center is an award-winning 18,064-seat sports and entertainment arena in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood that is home to the seven-time NBA champion Golden State Warriors, the WNBA's Golden State Valkyries, and hosts a variety of concerts, family shows and special performances. Easily accessible by foot, bicycle or mass transit, Chase Center and the surrounding Thrive City combine to form an 11-acre, privately financed multipurpose complex with publicly accessible plazas, unique dining and retail options, and year-round entertainment and wellness programming. For more information on Chase Center, please visit chasecenter.com.
About Align Technology, Inc.
Align Technology designs and manufactures the Invisalign® System, the most advanced clear aligner system in the world, iTero™ intraoral scanners and services, and exocad™ CAD/CAM software. These technology building blocks enable enhanced digital orthodontic and restorative workflows to improve patient outcomes and practice efficiencies for over 281.4 thousand doctor customers and are key to accessing Align's 600 million consumer market opportunity worldwide. Over the past 28 years, Align has helped doctors treat over 20.1 million patients with the Invisalign System and is driving the evolution in digital dentistry through the Align™ Digital Platform, our integrated suite of unique, proprietary technologies and services delivered as a seamless, end-to-end solution for patients and consumers, orthodontists and GP dentists, and lab/partners. Visit www.aligntech.com for more information. For additional information about the Invisalign System or to find an Invisalign doctor in your area, please visit www.invisalign.com. For additional information about the iTero digital scanning system, please visit www.itero.com. For additional information about exocad dental CAD/CAM offerings and a list of exocad reseller partners, please visit www.exocad.com. Invisalign, iTero, exocad, Align, Align Digital Platform and iTero Lumina are trademarks of Align Technology, Inc.
The Invisalign® Bay Area Women's Classic will be a single-admission doubleheader, and fans will only need to purchase one ticket to gain admission to both games. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, June 27 at 12 p.m. with an exclusive presale for Chase Center Insiders on Thursday, June 26 at 2 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at chasecenter.com.
Under the direction of former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant coach Lindsay Gottlieb, the USC women's basketball team is coming off a 2024-25 season that saw the Trojans win the Big Ten regular season championship, earn a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and reach a second straight Elite Eight to finish with a 31-4 overall record. Gottlieb is entering her fifth season with USC and was named a finalist for the Werner Ladder National Coach of the Year award in both 2024 and 2025.
Cal is coming off one of the best seasons in recent program history as the team earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament (No. 8 seed) for the first time since 2018-19, won 25 games for the first time since the 2012-13 season, maintained an Associated Press Top 25 ranking for eight straight weeks (going as high as No. 18) and set a program record for home wins in a season in going 16-1 at Haas Pavilion. The Bears are led by head coach Charmin Smith, a three-time Final Four participant, former WNBA player and Cal's first black female head coach.
Align Technology, makers of the Invisalign® System of clear aligners, is a title partner of the Invisalign® Bay Area Women's Classic that brings elite athletes and passionate fans together to celebrate the power of sport and self-confidence.
About Chase Center
Chase Center is an award-winning 18,064-seat sports and entertainment arena in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood that is home to the seven-time NBA champion Golden State Warriors, the WNBA's Golden State Valkyries, and hosts a variety of concerts, family shows and special performances. Easily accessible by foot, bicycle or mass transit, Chase Center and the surrounding Thrive City combine to form an 11-acre, privately financed multipurpose complex with publicly accessible plazas, unique dining and retail options, and year-round entertainment and wellness programming. For more information on Chase Center, please visit chasecenter.com.
About Align Technology, Inc.
Align Technology designs and manufactures the Invisalign® System, the most advanced clear aligner system in the world, iTero™ intraoral scanners and services, and exocad™ CAD/CAM software. These technology building blocks enable enhanced digital orthodontic and restorative workflows to improve patient outcomes and practice efficiencies for over 281.4 thousand doctor customers and are key to accessing Align's 600 million consumer market opportunity worldwide. Over the past 28 years, Align has helped doctors treat over 20.1 million patients with the Invisalign System and is driving the evolution in digital dentistry through the Align™ Digital Platform, our integrated suite of unique, proprietary technologies and services delivered as a seamless, end-to-end solution for patients and consumers, orthodontists and GP dentists, and lab/partners. Visit www.aligntech.com for more information. For additional information about the Invisalign System or to find an Invisalign doctor in your area, please visit www.invisalign.com. For additional information about the iTero digital scanning system, please visit www.itero.com. For additional information about exocad dental CAD/CAM offerings and a list of exocad reseller partners, please visit www.exocad.com. Invisalign, iTero, exocad, Align, Align Digital Platform and iTero Lumina are trademarks of Align Technology, Inc.
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