Sports

January 3, 2005

Gauchos PKO’d in National Championship

By Kelly Hayes

Closest only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, but the UCSB men's soccer team came so close to getting a ringer in the 2004 College Cup on Dec. 2, it could almost hear the metal clanking.

January 3, 2005

Cook, Gauchos Go Down

By Michael Long

The UCSB men's basketball team was dealt a huge blow last night in Northridge, experiencing its first conference loss of the season and losing another Gaucho to the injured list.

January 3, 2005

UCSB Continues Losing Ways

By Monique Moyal

The UCSB women’s basketball team (4-5 overall) rung in 2005 with a heartbreaking one-point loss to Loyola Marymount (6-7) during a nonconference game on Sunday. With six seconds left, LMU senior guard Mary Turner m...

December 2, 2004

Gauchos Advance to Elite Eight

By Kelly Hayes

In North Carolina, the UCSB men's soccer team washed away the bitterness of losing in overtime to St. John's University in last year's Sweet 16.

December 2, 2004

Sports Column: What About Us?

By Matthew Boelk

For a normal athletic department with foresight and competence, hosting the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament would mean bringing some national attention as well as revenue to its program, two main goals of any ath...

December 2, 2004

UCSB Peppered by Waves of Malibu

By Chris Trenchard

The moral of Wednesday night's game at Pepperdine was simple for the Gauchos: don't handicap yourself by 25 points before you start playing respectable basketball.

December 2, 2004

Santa Barbara Earns 13th Seed

By Danny MacLeith

#16 UCSB (23-3, 16-2 in the Big West) found out Sunday that it is possible for there to be too many parties in Isla Vista.

December 2, 2004

Michigan Silences Thunderdome

By Jeremy Fuller

With the shot clock and game clock nearly synchronized in the final half and UCSB trailing Michigan by three points last Friday, the Thunderdome crowd of nearly 2,000 was on the edge of its seat.

December 2, 2004

Men’s Water Polo: SB Finishes Last in Tourney

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

The UCSB men's water polo team saved its worst for last with an eighth place finish in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament this weekend in Palo Alto, Calif.

November 24, 2004

Gauchos Get Off Scott-Free

By Kelly Hayes

Beam me up, Scotty

November 24, 2004

Wisconsin-Madison Outshines Gauchos

By Sean Swaby

On Tuesday night, Santa Barbara might not have squandered its best opportunity to topple a nationally ranked team, had it been able to defend the three-point ball better.

November 24, 2004

Cheese Statement

By Chris Trenchard

As the clock ticked down on the UCSB men

November 23, 2004

Building a Powerhouse

By Chris Trenchard

Doing more with less is in fashion these days. For UCSB men's soccer team Head Coach Tim Vom Steeg, it is the name of the game. At a school like UCSB, a mid-major where priorities stray from athletics, climbing to a #1 n...

November 23, 2004

Cross-Country: Women Runners Finish 17th At Nationals

By Stephanie Cain

The #17 UCSB women's cross country team found success once again. Santa Barbara placed 17th out of 31 teams at the NCAA National Championship, improving on last year's 29th place finish. Colorado claimed the women's titl...

November 23, 2004

Santa Barbara Travels to Big Ten Country

By Michael Long

Some of UCSB's good ole' boys are going to be heading to Madison tonight but its not going to be all bar-hoppers.

November 22, 2004

Freshman Leads SB To Overtime Victory

By Chris Trenchard

After the UCSB men's basketball team squandered an eight-point, second-half lead at San Diego State, freshman guard Alex Harris put the Gauchos on his back in overtime, scoring eight of the Gauchos' 17 overtime points to...