Basketball

Gauchos Make Epic Comeback to Bring Streak to Three

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...
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Gauchos Back to Winning Ways

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 victor...
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Cold Gauchos Fall to Sharpshooting Davis

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. UCS...
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UCSB Seeks to Break Four-Game Skid

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 sophomor...
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Gauchos Travel North for a Pair of Games

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,...
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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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Gaucho Comeback Falls Short in Irvine

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. Soph...
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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 Looks to Break Three-Game Losing Skid

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 a...
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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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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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UCSB Falls in Televised Game to Hawaii

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 ...
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Cal State Long Beach 49ers

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 B...
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UCSB Drops Tough Contest Against Matadors

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 ...
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