Basketball

February 11, 2013

Gauchos Snap Skid, Overpower Pacific

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

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 the way to a 66-53 vic...

February 11, 2013

Gauchos Make Epic Comeback to Bring Streak to Three

By Kristen Henneman

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 year, the Gauchos w...

February 8, 2013

Gauchos Back to Winning Ways

By Kristen Henneman

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 victory, Santa Barbara imp...

February 8, 2013

Cold Gauchos Fall to Sharpshooting Davis

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

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. UCSB falls to 7-15 on t...

February 7, 2013

UCSB Seeks to Break Four-Game Skid

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

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 sophomore center Alan Willia...

February 7, 2013

Gauchos Travel North for a Pair of Games

By Kristen Henneman

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, this weekend’s ga...

February 6, 2013

A Day in the Life of Kirsten Tilleman

By Kristen Henneman

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 Bren School of Environm...

February 4, 2013

UCSB Wins 40th Straight Against CSUF

By Kristen Henneman

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 watching the score become a...

February 4, 2013

Gaucho Comeback Falls Short in Irvine

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

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. Sophomore center Alan Wi...

February 1, 2013

Keeping the Streak Alive

By Kristen Henneman

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 as the team looks t...

February 1, 2013

UCSB Looks to Break Three-Game Losing Skid

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

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 an average of fewer t...

January 31, 2013

UCSB Hungry for Third Straight Win

By Kristen Henneman

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 game in a three-way ti...

January 28, 2013

Nesbit’s Heroics Lift Gauchos in Hawaii

By Kristen Henneman

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 against Santa Barbara sin...

January 28, 2013

UCSB Falls in Televised Game to Hawaii

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

Injuries have begun to take their toll on the UCSB men’s basketball team as the Gauchos dropped their second consecutive game in a 78-73 loss to Hawaii Saturday at the Thunderdome. Without its star player in sophomore ...

January 25, 2013

Cal State Long Beach 49ers

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

Following an unexpected run to last season’s conference championship game, the Long Beach State women’s basketball team has carried over that momentum into an impressive start to this season’s Big West play. Long B...

January 25, 2013

UCSB Drops Tough Contest Against Matadors

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

The UCSB men’s basketball team looked as if it was going to win its third straight game — and then things took a turn for the worse. Santa Barbara committed 15 second-half turnovers on the way to a 75-69 loss at the ...