Basketball

UCSB Running This Rivalry

February 15, 2013 by

As the youngest team in the Big West, the UCSB men’s basketball team has shown it can compete with the top teams in the conference. However, as injuries have piled up this season, the Gauchos have h...
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UCSB Seeks Revenge in Blue-Green Rivalry Game

February 15, 2013 by

The Blue-Green Rivalry game is always an intense matchup, but this Saturday, a potential Big West title could be on the line. The UCSB women’s basketball team is currently in a three-way tie for sec...
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Gauchos Snap Skid, Overpower Pacific

February 11, 2013 by

With their backs against the wall, the UCSB men’s basketball team came out Saturday night with a clear sense of urgency. Opening up the game with a 12-0 run, the Gauchos never trailed Saturday on th...
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Gauchos Make Epic Comeback to Bring Streak to Three

February 11, 2013 by

The UCSB women’s basketball team went into Stockton as the clear underdog. It left as a top contender for the Big West title. Looking like the team that won the Big West Tournament Championship last...
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Gauchos Back to Winning Ways

February 8, 2013 by

All season long, the UCSB women’s basketball team has said its defense fuels its offense. That was certainly the case last night as the Gauchos edged out UC Davis on the road, 60-52. With the victor...
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Cold Gauchos Fall to Sharpshooting Davis

February 8, 2013 by

The shots weren’t falling for the UCSB men’s basketball team last night as the Gauchos dropped a 64-56 game to UC Davis that extended Santa Barbara’s season long losing streak to five games. UCS...
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UCSB Seeks to Break Four-Game Skid

February 7, 2013 by

The UCSB men’s basketball team will attempt to break its season high four-game losing streak tonight when they host UC Davis at the Thunderdome. Santa Barbara was without its best player in sophomor...
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Gauchos Travel North for a Pair of Games

February 7, 2013 by

With just two games separating the second and seventh place teams in the Big West to begin round two of conference play, every game counts. And after losing to lower-ranked UC Riverside last Thursday,...
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A Day in the Life of Kirsten Tilleman

February 6, 2013 by

On the UCSB roster, Kirsten Tilleman is listed as a senior, but she is definitely no ordinary student athlete. For one, Tilleman isn’t an undergrad; she’s a second-year graduate student at the Bre...
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UCSB Wins 40th Straight Against CSUF

February 4, 2013 by

Usually when Head Coach Carlene Mitchell makes her patented five-man line change, she’s looking for an increase in intensity, which is exactly what she got. After blowing a 10-point lead and watchin...
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Gaucho Comeback Falls Short in Irvine

February 4, 2013 by

Santa Barbara fell behind early in the first half against UC Irvine, and despite a furious second-half comeback, the Gauchos dropped a 62-60 decision off a game-winning three-pointer from Irvine. Soph...
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Keeping the Streak Alive

February 1, 2013 by

After a devastating 45-42 loss to ninth-place Riverside last night in a game that went down to the buzzer, the UCSB women’s basketball team will have to rebound quickly to take on Fullerton Saturday...
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UCSB Looks to Break Three-Game Losing Skid

February 1, 2013 by

Times are tough for the UCSB men’s basketball team, but it is still fighting hard without its best player in sophomore center Alan “Big Al” Williams. Santa Barbara, losers of three-straight by a...
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UCSB Hungry for Third Straight Win

January 31, 2013 by

Tonight against UC Riverside, the UCSB women’s basketball team will have the opportunity to do something they have yet to do all season: win three consecutive games. The Gauchos enter tonight’s ga...
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Nesbit’s Heroics Lift Gauchos in Hawaii

January 28, 2013 by

The last time the UCSB women’s basketball team played Hawaii was in 1997 and it wasn’t a close game as the Gauchos lost 91-66. However, Saturday night in the Rainbow Wahine’s first matchup again...
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