Michael Long

January 30, 2004

SB Rolls Over Riverside

By Michael Long

Now, that's more like it. After signaling a team-only meeting on Tuesday to sort out the turnover kinks that plagued the Gauchos in a dreadful 20-point massacre by University of the Pacific on Saturday, the UCSB men's ba...

January 29, 2004

Gauchos Host Riverside

By Michael Long

For the UCSB men's basketball team, most of Saturday's 20-point loss to Pacific is easily forgettable. Yet the Gauchos insist they need to remember their beating for the rest of the season.

January 29, 2004

Big West Reprimands Fullove for Hard Foul

By Michael Long

The Big West conference announced Wednesday that it has officially reprimanded senior guard Branduinn Fullove of the UCSB men's basketball team for actions during and comments following the Jan. 17 basketball game betwee...

January 28, 2004

Goettsche the Great

By Michael Long

For nearly twice a week since mid-November, there's been a free certified clinic on hoops at UCSB, put on by trained professional Cameron Goettsche at the Thunderdome.

January 26, 2004

Gauchos Hit Snag in Stockton

By Michael Long

The UCSB men's basketball team, enjoying an impressive three-game unbeaten streak, was suddenly halted by a road bump in Stockton.

January 22, 2004

Thunderdome Awakens for Northridge

By Michael Long

After walloping Cal Poly by 19 points Saturday, the Gauchos return to the friendly confines of the Thunderdome tonight at 7 for a date with Big West foe Northridge. In a statement win against the Mustangs at Mott Gym, th...

January 20, 2004

Gauchos Stymie Poly

By Michael Long

San Luis Obispo, Calif. - Finally, the Gauchos finished what they started. The UCSB men's basketball team cruised to victory Saturday night over coastal rival Cal Poly 78-59 in perhaps its best offensive effort of the ye...

January 16, 2004

Gauchos Take the SLO Road

By Michael Long

There's no doubt that tomorrow night's game between the UCSB men's basketball team and Cal Poly at Mott Gym in San Luis Obispo has huge Big West standings ramifications, but the Gauchos are insisting that there's nothing...

January 9, 2004

Aggies Drop Gauchos at T-dome

By Michael Long

The Gauchos need a New Year's resolution fast. The UCSB men's basketball team squandered a late six-point second-half lead against Utah State on Thursday night in the Thunderdome, dropping the game 74-67 and falling to o...

January 8, 2004

SB Invites Utah State to T-Dome

By Michael Long

Although it is extremely early in the Big West season, tonight's contest at the Thunderdome between the UCSB men's basketball team and Utah State has been one of the most anticipated games on the conference schedule.

January 5, 2004

Gauchos Stunned by Beach

By Michael Long

he UCSB men's basketball team, favored by both the coaches and media in preseason polls to win the Big West Championship, blew a 21-point lead in the final 17 minutes of the second half in the conference opener at Long B...

January 5, 2004

Santa Barbara Stuffs ‘Eaters

By Michael Long

The Gauchos (7-4, 1-1 in the Big West) slid past rival Irvine 84-77 at the Bren Events Center, one of the toughest places for visiting opponents to win basketball games in the Big West.

January 5, 2004

Bruinville Gets Gaucho Love

By Michael Long

WESTWOOD - After upsetting UCLA on its home floor on Dec. 16, Gaucho fans began making reservations to the NCAA's Final Four in San Antonio, Texas.

December 4, 2003

Cook Serves Up Win

By Michael Long

The UCSB men's basketball team cooked Pepperdine 65-62 on a sizzling three-point game-winning dagger by junior forward Casey Cook. The Gauchos, rallying from four down with 1:33 to play, won their season opener on Wednes...

November 26, 2003

UCSB Finds Home on the Range

By Michael Long

Sometimes winning the first one is the hardest. After dropping the University of Hawaii in its season opener last weekend, the UCSB men's basketball team will try to win on the road again over Thanksgiving weekend in Mis...

November 24, 2003

Santa Barbara Sinks Hawaii

By Michael Long

Without the luxury of its top two offensive players, the UCSB men's basketball team rallied from behind to beat the University of Hawaii in Honolulu on Friday night in its season opener.