Basketball

UCSB Returns Home to Face Riverside

February 10, 2012 by

Home sweet home. In yet another televised game, the UCSB men’s basketball team will host UC Riverside on Saturday night in its first home game in three weeks. Santa Barbara is 3-1 at home in confere...
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UCSB Looks to End Losing Streak Vs. CSUF

February 10, 2012 by

The UCSB women’s basketball team will attempt to start a win streak tonight against Cal State Fullerton, the team in the basement of the Big West standings. The Gauchos have lost four consecutive ga...
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Gauchos Welcome Matadors to Thunderdome

February 9, 2012 by

UCSB women’s basketball will attempt to start a winning streak tonight against Cal State Fullerton, the team in the basement of the Big West standings. The Gauchos have lost four consecutive games (...
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UCSB’s Blue-Collar Baller

February 8, 2012 by

Kirsten Tilleman is a lot of things to the UCSB women’s basketball team, but in a word, she is selfless. The junior center is known for doing a lot of the dirty work on the court, sacrificing her bo...
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Cal Poly Defeats UCSB

February 6, 2012 by

There’s a saying that goes “if something’s not working, change it.” But even that didn’t work for the UCSB women’s basketball team, which lost 67-52 Saturday afternoon to Cal Poly. It was ...
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UCSB Hosts Cal Poly in Need of a Win

February 3, 2012 by

The UCSB women’s basketball team is in desperate need of a victory after three straight losses, and a win against rival Cal Poly Saturday afternoon might be the perfect remedy. The Gauchos begin a t...
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UCSB Continues Road Trip, Faces Fullerton on Saturday

February 3, 2012 by

The UCSB men’s basketball team will travel to Cal State Fullerton tomorrow night to face the Titans in its final game of a four game road trip. Three games into the trip, the Gauchos are 3-0 and wil...
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Gauchos Fall to USC on the Road

February 2, 2012 by

If the UCSB women’s basketball team could find a way to score, it would be a very dangerous team. Offensive inconsistency once again killed the Gauchos, who lost to USC 50-39 in a nonconference matc...
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Road Trip Up North

February 2, 2012 by

The following is the first Online Nexus Sports Blog, from Christian Peterson, senior forward on the UCSB men’s basketball team. This past weekend was our longest road trip of the year and, for m...
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Gauchos Hit the Road to Take on Trojans

January 31, 2012 by

The UCSB women’s basketball team takes a break from conference play tonight to take on USC, the strongest team on the schedule for this year. The Gauchos enter the game at 8-11 overall and 3-5 in th...
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Gauchos Overcome by Late Pacific Rally

January 30, 2012 by

The UCSB women’s basketball team dropped another close game Saturday afternoon at home against University of the Pacific by a score of 52-48. With the loss, the Gauchos (8-11 overall, 3-5 Big West) ...
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Gauchos Host Pacific in Big West Tiebreaker

January 27, 2012 by

  UCSB women’s basketball will seek revenge Saturday afternoon against Pacific, which stunned the Gauchos at home last season in the first round of the playoffs to end UCSB’s season. With a 5...
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UCSB Takes on Reigning League Champs UC Davis

January 26, 2012 by

The UCSB women’s basketball team will look to ride the momentum created from its double overtime victory against Northridge Saturday when the team hosts last year’s winner of the Big West tourname...
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Gauchos Begin Weekend Road Trip

January 26, 2012 by

The UCSB men’s basketball team will hit the road for a four-game road trip, beginning with a game at UC Davis on Thursday night followed up by a game at Pacific on Saturday. The Gauchos (9-7 overall...
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Tuesday Ballin’ With Nexus Sports

January 24, 2012 by

With the Boston Celtics off to a sluggish 6-9 start to the season and currently tied for eighth place in the Eastern Conference, rumors have been swirling that General Manager Danny Ainge may decide t...
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