No. 25 Cal and UC Irvine, who play each other Wednesday (11 p.m. ET, Pac-12 Network) at Cals Haas Pavilion, have two things in common: Both blew out South Dakota State recently, and neither has had its best player available so far.In its only game, Cal (1-0) took apart South Dakota State 82-53, but the Bears did so without 6-foot-11 All-American forward Ivan Rabb. He sprained his toe three weeks ago on a closed scrimmage against St. Marys, and he has been limited since. Rabb did not receive medical clearance to play against the Jackrabbits and has been listed as day-to-day since.Hard to say when we expect him back. I dont think hell be out long, Cal coach Cuonzo Martin said after Fridays game. Hes been in practice but not contact.Cal returns three starters from last seasons 23-11 squad, but only one of them, Jabari Bird, was a starter against South Dakota State. Two newcomers started that game -- Grant Mullins, a graduate transfer from Columbia who scored 13 points, and freshman Charlie Moore, who struggled with 1-for-8 shooting but figures in Cals plans.Obviously the fact that he started could tell you that Charlies a good player, said Cal forward Roger Moute a Bidias, who came off the bench to score 12 points. As a freshman starting like that, thats big. Obviously he was a little bit nervous. He will be all right as he adjusts and gets used to it. I think he will be great for us.Point guard Sam Singer also came off the bench to score 14 points, sharing top team scoring honors with Bird, and it remains to be seen which players Martin will put on the floor to start Wednesdays game.There is also uncertainty regarding UC Irvines starters. Irvine played its first two games without its only returning starter in Luke Nelson, an all-Big West first-team selection last year. 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NEW YORK -- When Adeline Gray stepped on the wrestling mat in high school against a male competitor, she got his attention pretty quickly.She grabbed her opponent, and his eyes opened up like saucers, like `holy cow, Ive got to fight for my life, said her father, George.Gray is all business on the mat, with a 38-0 winning streak the past two years against women. She started wrestling at 6, first coached by her dad and uncle near Denver, Colorado. She grappled with the boys in youth leagues through high school. Now, the three-time world champion will attempt to win the first gold for U.S. womens wrestling on Aug. 18 in Rio.She has the ability to stay focused when the lights are on, George Gray said. She knows how to win.Gray won the majority of her high school matches against boys at 130-140 pounds. Now shes coached by Terry Steiner, a former All-American wrestler at Iowa who leads the U.S. womens national team.Womens wrestling was added at the 2004 Athens Games. When wrestling nearly got tossed out of the Olympics three years ago, increasing womens participation was among the improvements required by the IOC. Women were added to wrestling boards and female referees to the mat. Two more weight classes were added, bringing the total to six in Rio.Gray, a three-time world champion, has traveled to 22 countries for competitions in the last several years. Shes spent eight years at the U.S. Olympic training center in Colorado Springs, getting ready for the Japanese women. They won three of the four golds at the 2012 London Games, where Gray was an alternate.Here are some things to know about the 25-year-old Gray, who is ranked No. 1 at 75 kilograms (165 pounds).EARLY TRAININGShe joined her uncles wrestling club and started with tumbling and basic moves to see who had better balance. She honed her wrestling technique and competitive skills around age 12, when she developed strength and skill and put that into a complete match, she said.Gray says her mother Donna will attest that she was super-hyper as a kid. Wrestling and playing soccer with her three younger sisters helped redirect her energy.I definitely think my parents had the option to medicate me to kind of calm me down, and they chose to put me in athletics, she said. It helped me in school, it helped me in so many different areas of my life.GRAPPLING GUYSGray was 16-16 against boys while attending Bear Creek High School her freshman year on the varsity team, where teammates knew her from growing up together on the mat. Her dad said shed often trail 2-0 because the boys were faster at the takedown, but shed always either reverse or get around and then get on top.dddddddddddd She pinned a lot of boys.Her family moved the next year and she went 20-10 at 135 pounds at Chatfield High School. Her junior year she was captain of the boys team and finished 20-7.Occasionally, there was pushback from parents at other schools. Some of these boys played the gender card, `Im not going to wrestle her, were not supposed to be hurting girls, George said. But guess what, Id see him two weeks later at a different tournament wrestling a girl because he knew he could beat that girl.While there were some forfeits, George says Adeline is where she is today because she wrestled the boys. It made her better.I had my dad in my corner the whole time, she said of the former wrestler and police officer. He really just gave me that freedom to go out there and be an athlete.OLYMPIC PREPAfter winning the junior world title at 17, Gray moved to an Olympic development program at Northern Michigan University and finished high school in Marquette, Michigan. She recently earned a business degree through DeVry University.Gray will be joined in Rio by three teammates -- Elena Pirozhkova (63 kg), Helen Maroulis (53 kg) and Hayley Augello (48 kg).The women wrestle two rounds of 3 minutes in freestyle, which allows for throws and hooking the legs. The men wrestle both Greco Roman, grappling from the waist up, and freestyle.GATOR ROLLGray is known for her arm bar and chicken wing pins and the leg lace move. That involves an arm lock around the ankles, crisscrossing them. Then a gator roll, you start turning, her dad said. If they dont, theyll pop a knee or the pain is unbelievable, so you turn. Thats two points.Gray tries to dominate the opponent early in the match. You dont want to wait around to see peoples best stuff, she said. You want to hammer them with what you have and get off the mat.GAINING GROUNDWomens wrestling is not an NCAA sport, but high school girls wrestling is gaining popularity in California, Washington, Texas, Florida and Hawaii, Gray said.Whats the difference between wrestling boys and girls?(Boys) dont have shoulders like Gumby, she said. Girls get out of pinning holds that no boy would ever be able to get out of. Boys, their shoulders are so stiff, if you get the right leverage on a shoulder, theyre going to go over and pin themselves. ' ' '