Cal Basketball: Former Portland Guard Mike Meadows Set to Join Golden Bears
New Cal coach Mark Madsen has landed a third transfer, guard Mike Meadows, who played the past four years for former Golden Bears guard Shantay Legans.
Tobias Bass of The Athletic was first to report the news.
A 6-foot-2 senior, Meadows played the past two seasons at Portland after after two years at Eastern Washington. Legans coached both programs.
He averaged 11.0 points in 21 games for the Pilots last season while missing a portion of the season with a hamstring injury. He scored a career-high 39 points last season in a loss to West Coast Conference rival Santa Clara.
Meadows, 24, announced on March 29 that he was transferring to Loyola Marymount, but a month later changed his mind, flipping to Cal.
He joins center Fardaws Aimaq (Texas Tech) and guard Jalen Cone (Northern Arizona) as transfers to Cal since the hiring of Madsen to replace Mark Fox as coach.
Meadows averaged 10.2 points and 3.0 assists while starting 25 of 26 games for Portland in 2021-22 before a back injury curtailed his season.
In 2020-21, he helped Legans’ EWU team win the Big Sky title, earning a bid to the NCAA tournament. He averaged 10.5 points for the season and had 12 points and eight assists in the Eagles’ first-round NCAA loss to third-seeded Kansas.
Born in Henderson, Kentucky, Meadows moved with his family to southern California and grew up in Hollywood. He played four years of varsity basketball at Campbell Hall High School.
Mike Meadows
Photo by James Snook, USA Today
Cover photo of Mike Meadows driving on Gonzaga's Julian Strawther by Troy Wayrynen USA Today
Follow Jeff Faraudo of Cal Sports Report on Twitter: @jefffaraudo
