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On Jan. 13, the Gauchos will travel south to San Diego to face University of California-San Diego in the season opener. Because UCSD does not have a Division I program, the Gauchos have to be careful ...
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In a season that began with low expectations from the public, the UCSB women's volleyball team made believers out of everyone.
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The UCSB women's basketball team sank Cal State Fullerton 74-51 at Titan Gym.
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Although you couldn't hear elephants stampede in the Thunderdome last week, plenty of noise was made by the fifth-ranked UCSB men's volleyball team, who left their large tracks behind, warning their f...
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How does the UCSB women's volleyball team follow up a gigantic home victory over Stanford in the second round of the NCAA Tournament? Travel to Hawai'i, upset Minnesota and advance to the Elite Eight.
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Santa Barbara finished December with a bang by crunching Loyola Marymount 85-69 at the Thunderdome. The Gauchos followed up their last win of non-conference play with a come-from-behind Big West openi...
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The Oklahoma Sooners romped to a 13-2 victory over the Florida State Seminoles to win their seventh national championship.
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The Gauchos head toward their Big West with a record of 6-6 and hope for a revival against their conference opponents.
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There are always two halves to every match: the match itself, and then the last play. The funny thing is that while the match is longer, the only thing that anyone ever remembers is the last play.
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Two teams waltzed into the Thunderdome expecting the Santa Barbara men's basketball team to lie down and die this past week. The Gauchos had other plans against Westmont and San Diego State.
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The UCSB women's basketball team came out of the Arizona State Holiday Classic basketball tournament Thursday rejuvenated after scorching Kent State 68-53 and the host Sun Devils 76-66 in the champion...
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UCSB played its best performance of the season last night, coming within a whisker of upsetting the heavily favored UCLA squad in Pauley Pavilion.
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The #14 Santa Barbara women's volleyball team will host the largest sporting event of UCSB's athletic season tonight, while squaring off with an unranked but dangerous Texas-San Antonio squad in the o...
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Survive and advance. That is the motto every team must have in the NCAA Women's Volleyball Tournament. Thursday night in the Thunderdome, UCSB and Stanford did just that.
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The Bowl Championship Series is to college football what the Los Angeles Clippers are to the NBA. They are both are joke, and need to be replaced quickly, before the Cincinnati Bengals defect to the c...
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