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BERKELEY, Calif. — Saturday's game probably won't be the last that forward Bret Brielmaier will wear a sweater to this season.

Brielmaier has now missed a total of three games with a sprained shoulder suffered on Dec. 22. After missing the UA's Jan. 12 game at Houston, Brielmaier returned to play Thursday at Stanford but felt particularly sore afterward.

By the end of the Wildcats' practice Friday, UA interim coach Kevin O'Neill said Brielmaier would not play Saturday.

Brielmaier may have a similar on-again, off-again path to follow in the weeks to come because the injury will not fully heal anytime soon, UA spokesman Richard Paige said.

"This is something he's going to have to deal with the rest of the season," Paige said before Saturday's game. "He'll play as much as he can."

Freshman Jamelle Horne received his second start of the season, despite not playing at all in the Wildcats' previous three games.

Horne, who started the Wildcats' opener against Northern Arizona on Nov. 13, entered Saturday's game averaging 14.6 minutes in the 13 games he did play in.

O'Neill cited Horne's struggles last month for playing him less lately but said Friday that Horne had been practicing better and that he "wouldn't mind playing him in a game."

Horne and Fendi Onobun alternated at power forward, mostly guarding Cal's Ryan Anderson, who had 15 points in the first half on perfect shooting — 4 for 4 from the field and 5 for 5 from the line.

Horne also started the second half.

Arizona's 10 turnovers Thursday at Stanford were the fewest it has had at a road or neutral site all season and only the sixth time it has had 10 or fewer all season. However, the Wildcats had eight turnovers in the first half Saturday.

Cal center DeVon Hardin had six points and only one rebound in the first half, continuing an odd trend away from the domination he showed early in the season.

He averaged 10.8 points and 13.0 rebounds in his first six games this season but had only one rebound Thursday against ASU and four rebounds in 24 minutes against Oregon a week earlier.

"It was just disappointing because he's capable of playing at a tougher level," Cal coach Ben Braun told the Oakland Tribune after the Oregon game on Jan. 10. "I don't know that he was physically ailing, but he played as if he was. … We challenged him on it. We watched the film and said this is not acceptable, especially for you. He had zero offensive rebounds, and worse than getting zero, he didn't go for any.''

Cal shot 58.3 percent in the first half Saturday, after the Wildcats allowed Stanford to shoot 63.6 percent in the first half Thursday.

Stanford's effort in the first half Thursday was the highest field goal percentage the UA has allowed an opponent all season.