NORTHRIDGE — Forgive Jenna Green if she hadn't exactly put the UC Santa Barbara women's basketball team on her back and carried them for parts of this season. Sitting out the previous year with back trouble can do that.But on Wednesday night at The Matadome, Green had her best game of the season - and one that evoked memories of how good she truly is - carrying the Gauchos to a 75-58 victory over Cal State Northridge.It was UCSB's 10th straight win as the team improved to 13-6 overall … [Read more...]

The UCSB women's basketball team polished off its longest homestand of the year with a bruising 76-54 thumping of Pacific on Saturday afternoon that made it nine straight for the Gauchos.It matched the largest margin of victory for UCSB this season, and the first-place Gauchos were enjoying every last second of it leading up to the buzzer"Definitely not a perfect game, but I thought it was our best performance tip to buzzer," noted head coach Linsday Gottlieb, who has yet to lose a Big … [Read more...]

STOCKTON - Despite a solid defensive effort that limited Pacific to 39.3% shooting and just 58 points, UCSB couldn't get anything going offensively and dropped a 58-36 decision to the Tigers in Stockton on Saturday night. In the game, Chris Devine became the seventh UCSB player to eclipse the 1,400 point mark and now has 1,404.Both teams struggled on the offensive end in the first half. UCSB trailed 11-5 with 13:20 left, but used its own 11-5 run, capped by a lay-up from freshman James … [Read more...]

 STOCKTON — Despite a solid defensive effort that limited Pacific to 39.3% shooting and just 58 points, UC Santa Barbara couldn't get anything going offensively and dropped a 58-36 decision to the Tigers in Stockton on Saturday night. In the game, Chris Devine became the seventh UCSB player to eclipse the 1,400 point mark and now has 1,404.Both teams struggled on the offensive end in the first half. UCSB trailed 11-5 with 13:20 left, but used its own 11-5 run, capped by a lay-up from … [Read more...]

With the exeption of maybe Allen Iverson, everyone knows that practice makes perfect.UCSB head coach Lindsay Gottlieb had her team ready to play on Thursday night, putting together a game plan that paid off in a 64-51 Big West victory over UC Davis at the Thunderdome."We drilled their defense for three days straight. I think if you asked us to go out there and run it, we could probably run their offense and their defense because we scouted them so well," claimed Sha'Rae Gibbons, who … [Read more...]

DAVIS - Chris Devine scored a season-high 27 points and Greg Somogyi added a career-high 14, but UC Santa Barbara couldn't stop a sizzling UC Davis team, losing 89-75 on the road Thursday.The Aggies (9-10 overall, 4-2 in the Big West), who have now won three conference games in a row for the first time, shot 56.7% overall for the contest, including a 52.4% from three-point range. They broke open a close game, outscoring the Gauchos (8-10 overall, 2-4 in the Big West) 28-15 in the final … [Read more...]

"Alright, how much are you guys going to pay me to tell you what my halftime speech was?"Coach Lindsay Gottlieb was joking, but if you had a tape of the speech, you could probably sell it for a fortune because of the results it produced.After a downright nauseating first half, UCSB's women's basketball team came out of the locker room and ripped visiting Cal Poly (9-7, 2-3) to shreds, bouncing back from a 16-point deficit to win by 10, 55-45."She didn't rip us, she really just … [Read more...]

SAN LUIS OBISPO - D.J. Posley scored a career-high 17 points and Jordan Weiner added a career-high 14, to lead UCSB to a 72-62 road win at Cal Poly on Saturday night.Posley scored 11 of his 17 points in the second half while Weiner had 12 of his 14 in the first half.The Mustangs had their biggest lead of six points twice in the first half. The last time at 16-10 with 11:41 to play. That's when Weiner went to work, making three three-pointers over the next three minutes, leading a 9-2 … [Read more...]

The UCSB women's basketball team grinded out another defensive-minded victory on Wednesday night, making it sixth straight after a 67-61 non-conference decision over Portland State at the Thunderdome.Portland State was shut off at the source as Claire Faucher, last year's NCAA assist leader who averages over six a game this season, didn't record a single assist for the Vikings, who are undefeated in the Big Sky Conference. As a team, PSU recorded a meager three assists for the entire … [Read more...]

UCSB's shooting touch disappeared in the second half against Cal State Fullerton on Saturday night, a costly development that led to a 62-58 men's basketball defeat at the Thunderdome - the Gauchos' third Big West Conference loss in four games.After shooting over 50 percent from the floor in the first half to earn a 37-30 halftime lead, UCSB made only five field goals total in the final 20 minutes and fell to 7-9 overall, 1-3 in the Big West.Josh Akognon's 20 second-half points and 13 … [Read more...]

FULLERTON - The UCSB women's basketball team used its trademark defense to limit Cal State Fullerton on Saturday night at Titan Gym, but this time also got a lot of scoring throughout the lineup as four players finished in double figures. It resulted in a 60-54 win, the Gauchos' fifth overall and second straight on the road.UCSB improves to 8-6 overall and 4-0 in the Big West while Cal State Fullerton falls to 5-8 overall and 2-1 in the Big West. … [Read more...]