Sports

January 7, 2009

Big West Preview — UC Santa Barbara

By Derek Mead

After a rough-and-tumble preseason that saw two losses by a combined margin of three points along with a loss while hosting then-#1 North Carolina, the UCSB men's basketball team was looking forward to a clean slate with...

January 7, 2009

Big West Preview — Pacific

By Ryan Eagleson

The first week in January always marks two things: the beginning of Winter Quarter and Big West conference play in basketball. This year's Big West looks to be especially interesting given the way the preseason unfolded ...

January 7, 2009

Big West Preview — Cal State Fullerton

By Joshua Greenberg

Coming into the 2008-09 season, the Cal State Fullerton Titans were ranked fourth in the Big West. Last year they tied for the regular season conference championship and made it to the elite eight of the NCAA tournament....

January 7, 2009

Big West Preview — Long Beach State

By Matt Connolly

What a difference a year can make. After finishing eighth in the Big West last season with an atrocious 6-25 overall record including only three wins in conference, a much improved Long Beach State team (7-7 overall, 2-0...

January 7, 2009

Big West Preview — UC Irvine

By Derek Mead

Becoming a consistently winning program is tougher in college sports than anywhere else. Student turnover rates are high, and often a team is forced to field young and inexperienced squads if they graduate a large senior...

January 7, 2009

Big West Preview — UC Davis

By Mark Bogard

Coming off a tough season, UC Davis is looking to put up some much better numbers to show everyone that they are not the league doormat that people have come to expect them to be since their move up to Division I basketb...

January 7, 2009

Big West Preview — Cal Poly

By John Greely

Kevin Bromley has his work cut out for him with this year's Cal Poly squad. The ninth-year head coach has a team picked to finish near the bottom of the Big West, with a 3-9 record and a tough road ahead.

January 7, 2009

Big West Preview — UC Riverside

By Ravi Bhatia

Expected to finish last in the Big West, the UC Riverside men's basketball team has so far surpassed all expectations, finishing the preseason 7-4 and holding the best overall record in the conference along with Pacific.

January 6, 2009

Big West Preview — UC Riverside

By Ravi Bhatia

Last season, the UC Riverside Highlanders' run for their third consecutive Big West conference tournament championship ended in the semifinals in a 63-53 loss to #2 seed UC Davis. During the preseason, Riverside was pred...

January 6, 2009

Big West Preview — UC Santa Barbara

By John Greely

For the first time in what seems like decades, UCSB women's basketball is a bit of a mystery. After all, it is not every year that a team has to replace a legendary head coach who won 11 of 12 conference regular season t...

January 6, 2009

Big West Preview — UC Davis

By Matt Connolly

A year ago, the Aggies (4-7) were the figurative new kids on the block, playing in their first season as official members of the Big West. Using a lineup stacked with veteran players itching to play with a championship o...

January 6, 2009

Big West Preview — Pacific

By Mark Bogard

With a 14-16 overall record last year, including 9-7 in the ultra-competitive Big West, the Pacific Tigers women's team was good enough for fourth place in the conference. But for third-year Coach Lynne Roberts and Chico...

January 6, 2009

Big West Preview — Cal Poly

By Derek Mead

Despite being picked to finish fifth in the conference in preseason polls, the Cal Poly women's basketball team shot out to the best preseason record in the Big West. Things changed a bit for their conference opener, whe...

January 6, 2009

Big West Preview — UC Irvine

By Joshua Greenberg

Last season, the UC Irvine women's basketball team finished with a 7-24 record overall and a 3-13 record in conference. This year, they have a new coach, but things are not shaping up much better than they did last seaso...

January 6, 2009

Big West Preview — Cal State Fullerton

By Miles Yim

Picked to finish sixth in the Big West, a battle-tested Cal State Fullerton squad looks to prove the doubters wrong come league play, even if their guard-heavy roster, rebounding woes and abysmal non-conference record sa...

January 6, 2009

Big West Preview — Cal State Northridge

By Derek Mead

Preseason discussions about Big West women's basketball all revolved around how evenly matched all nine squads in the conference are. With quality matchups across the board, teams will have to come out firing on all cyli...