After losing only three games in the final two months of the regular season, the Gauchos lost back-to-back postseason games, ending their season and the career of the schools' new all-time scoring lea...
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Anaheim--After back-to-back heartbreaking Big West Tournament Championship losses to UC Riverside, the UC Santa Barbara women's basketball team is finally going back to the Big Dance.
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March Madness started a little early last night as a UCSB men's basketball team that was all but written off in the Big West regular season title hunt extended its conference winning streak to five ga...
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After beating up on little-known Marist the last time they played in Santa Barbara, the Gauchos (6-3 overall) showed the home fans that they can keep up with more talented teams as well, defeating Cal...
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After years of working here, I've grown accustomed to the Nexus ladies looking up when I enter the office. For a long time, I attributed this to my God-given good looks, but it soon became apparent th...
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On a night when four seniors took the Thunderdome floor for the final time, it was a sophomore who stole the spotlight.
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From a buzzer-beating three-pointer that led to a stormed court to a blown double-digit lead a few months later that left fans shaking their heads, one never knows what to expect when walking into the...
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Because the marketing department for UCSB Athletics has seemingly been on vacation for the last four months - with the exception of creating a timeout game in which the odds of winning are nearly one ...
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Remember the good ole days when you'd go home after school and tune in to Carson Daly and "Total Request Live"? Remember when MTV actually showed videos and played tons of music? It seems like it's be...
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While the Gauchos are streaking toward the top of the Big West standings, they'll take a break from conference action tonight to participate in the ESPNU Bracket Busters series with a game at former l...
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Don't tell anyone, but the Gauchos are quietly making an under-the-radar run at the Big West Conference crown.
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Just when everyone began to write them off, the UCSB men's basketball team is once again making noise in the Big West Conference standings.
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Writers love using the cliché term "the long national nightmare is over" - whether they're being serious or facetious. So in honor of the writers of the world, I'll use the phrase myself, as I re...
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By my count, we're rarely wrong here at the Nexus sports page. Call me cocky, or call me forgetful, but it seems like most of the picks that fellow sports editor Chris Hoffman and myself have made thi...
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As the Gauchos gathered in a swaying huddle just before the opening tip, Justin Joyner pounded the floor and screamed at his teammates to get ready for Saturday night's crucial Big West Conference mat...
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“dusty rusty crusty musty ass california hills”
“frowning in plaid (haunted radios, bird bones + anthropomorphized wind)”
“warming my hands on bridges i’ve burnt”
“songs that make me see god”
“My Playlist #236”
“classy wine moment and intellectual conversation”
“90s heroin chic model off duty”
“tweet tweet bird emoji map emoji”
“not my circus, not my monkeys”
“a grave is probably cheaper than an apartment”
“ATE THESE BITCHES LEFT NO CRUMBS / DID IT IN DESIGNER PUMPS”
