A Day in the Life of Kirsten Tilleman

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

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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Keeping the Streak Alive

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 Hungry for Third Straight Win

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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LeBron Is Great, but Is He One of the All-Time Best?

Nearly two weeks ago, LeBron James became the youngest player in NBA history to reach the 20,000-point mark. Going into the game, he was 18 points shy of the plateau, but a 25-point performance handed...
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Nesbit’s Heroics Lift Gauchos in Hawaii

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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Goodbye Northridge, Aloha Hawaii

Coming into tonight’s game with a 2-3 conference record and a blowout 66-47 loss to Cal Poly lingering in its mind, the UCSB women’s basketball team needed to prove that it could play with the bes...
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UCSB Student Takes Over as Official Play-by-Play Announcer

For the first time in 19 years, a student has taken over the job of the official radio play-by-play announcer for the UCSB women’s basketball team, according to Assistant Athletics Director Bill Mah...
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Gauchos Fall to Rival Mustangs in SLO

In a Blue-Green rivalry game that pitted two teams with polar opposite styles against each other, Cal Poly’s offense proved to be too much to handle for the UCSB women’s basketball team as the Gau...
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UCSB Travels to Cal Poly for Heated Rivalry

Beginning a three-game road trip this Saturday, the UCSB women’s basketball team could think of no better way to start that road trip than a win over rival Cal Poly. Santa Barbara enters the Blue-Gr...
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Top NBA MVP Candidates Already Surfacing

WiththeNBAseasonnearlyhalfwaythrough,talkof the prestigious MVP award has already begun to surface. Most of the players topping the list are no surprise, but others, while of course known to be incred...
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UCSB Snaps Two-Game Losing Streak Against UC Davis

One team was going to break its losing streak. With a dominating 58-43 performance over UC Davis, the UCSB women’s basketball team snapped a two-game skid and won its first game at home in its last ...
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Pacific Tigers

With this year being the University of the Pacific women’s basketball team’s final year in the Big West conference, the Tigers are looking for a way to make it special. Voted to finish second in t...
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2012-2013 Big West Conference

The UCSB women’s basketball team is the reigning Big West Champion, but it’s not thinking about that. The Gauchos were also predicted to finish third in conference this year by the Big West presea...
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Big West Men’s Basketball: Cal State Northridge Matadors

Last year, a young Cal State Northridge women’s basketball team surprised everyone, finishing second in the Big West. This year, nobody will be shocked if the Matadors top the conference. At 9-5 ove...
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