The Cal women’s basketball season is not over quite yet.

The Bears earned the chance to play at least one more game in the Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament after their commanding 83-75 victory over Kansas State on Sunday in the Little Apple.

3-seeded Cal traveled to Manhattan, Kansas, for the second round since the 2-seeded Wildcats earned the right to host as the higher seed.

Sakima Walker had an outstanding night with a career high 28 points and 16 rebounds. The Bears played a close game with the Wildcats through the first half, but they relied on their 6’5” graduate center to get stops defensively and stay consistent on the offensive end.

Cal also shot a lights-out 45.8% from 3-point range and 55.2% from the field in one of its most dominant offensive performances of the season.

“We like feeding the ball to (Walker) whether it’s like-size individuals or not. We need her to eat in order to space the floor to give our guards opportunities for open looks,” said Cal head coach Charmin Smith in the postgame press conference. “I don’t think it’s coincidental that we were 11-of-24 from (3-point range) in a game in which she was such a threat.”

Both teams came out guns blazing in the first quarter. Junior guard Lulu Twidale went 3-for-3 from deep in the opening frame, while freshman Taylor Barnes added two triples in just her second game as a starter since returning from injury.

However, Kansas State came to play. In a quarter with 10 lead changes, the Wildcats came out on top after the first 10 minutes of play behind freshman guard Jordan Speiser’s 8 points off the bench and freshman point guard Gina Garcia’s seven assists.

The Bears initially struggled to find a response to the Kansas State offense that shot 62.5% from the field, but that all changed after the first break.

“It’s really tough to go on the road and play a really good K-State team. I thought their offense was really hard to guard. They gave us some issues,” Smith said.

Cal held the Wildcats to just 13 points in the second quarter, while Walker and junior guard Gisella Maul stepped up offensively to give the blue and gold a 41-36 lead at the half.

The Bears excelled in areas that have plagued them at points throughout the season. They limited turnovers to just seven in the first half while making shots from behind the arc. Walker helped the Cal offense find open shots on the perimeter and was so consistent on defense and in the post that Smith couldn’t find time to get backup sophomore center Naya Ojukwu in the game.

But it worked out well for the Bears as they came out of the break with the same tenacity on both ends of the floor. After a back-and-forth effort to open the half, Cal exploded for a 15-4 run in the last five minutes of the quarter to take a 15-point lead.

The Bears held Kansas State to 15 points in the quarter as they used their physicality to outrebound the Wildcats 11-4 in the frame.

Cal continued to dominate in the start of the fourth quarter, as it extended its scoring run to 17 straight unanswered points off the back of Walker in the post and Barnes’ two triples.

But Kansas State was not done there. The Wildcats answered with a 13-0 run to cut the lead to 12 points, but the Bears did enough defensively to make up for a four-minute scoring drought. Junior guard Mjracle Sheppard ended Cal’s drought with a free throw and a 3-pointer before Twidale put the nail in the coffin at the charity stripe.

“We’re just really happy to be extending our season, earning another game. To keep playing — that’s the goal in March. So I’m really proud of the first 35 minutes of this game,” Smith said.

With the win, the Bears earned the chance to return to Berkeley and host the quarterfinal matchup against Columbia. The 4-seeded Lions are fresh off a nearly 30-point victory on the road over top-seeded North Dakota State.

Columbia finished its regular season 20-7 before losing to Harvard in the Ivy League semifinal. The Lions won by almost 50 points in their first-round W.B.I.T. matchup against St. John’s and have been especially stellar on the defensive end in both of their postseason matchups.

Cal will take on Columbia at Haas Pavilion at 7 p.m. on March 26. The team that wins will go up against either Harvard or Wisconsin in the semifinal of the W.B.I.T. at Charles Koch Arena in Wichita, Kansas.