UC Santa Barbara vs. UC Davis

The Thunderdome - Santa Barbara, Calif.

All-Time Record vs. the Aggies: 17-21

Last Meeting: March 9, 2019: at UC Davis 80, UCSB 44

 

UC Santa Barbara at Cal State Fullerton

Titan Gym - Fullerton, Calif.

All-Time Record vs. the Titans: 57-27

Last Meeting: January 11, 2020: Cal State Fullerton 70, at UCSB 68 (OT)

 

Both games this weekend will be livestreamed on BigWest.TV, produced by the respective host institutions. Gerry Fall and Louis Reynaud will have the call for Thursday night's game. Links to the streams are available above or on the women's basketball schedule page.

 

Both games this weekend will be broadcast live on UCSBGauchos.com. Sports Information Director Arthur Wilkie will handle the play-by-play on Saturday night. A link to the broadcast is available above or on the women's basketball schedule page.

 

G16: UCSB 65, UC Irvine 61 - The Gauchos erased a 13-point deficit en route to their first true road win of the season. Walk-on Mira Shulman kickstarted the comeback in the third quarter, going on a solo 8-2 run to help bring UCSB back within two possessions, and Ila Lane delivered 17 points and six rebounds in the fourth quarter to give the Gauchos their first win at the Bren Events Center in the past four meetings.

 

G15: UC Riverside 66, UCSB 61 - An early deficit turned into a deep 18-point hole that the Gauchos nearly managed to dig themselves out of with a late rally, but they fell just short despite cutting the Highlanders' lead to one score several times. Coco Miller, Ila Lane, Tal Sahar, and Danae Miller combined for 55 of UCSB's 61 points.

 

UC Davis enters the week with a 7-9 overall record and a 2-1 conference mark, good for second in the Big West. After a league-opening 75-70 loss at UC Riverside, the Aggies have rebounded quite nicely with home wins against Hawai'i, 62-49, and Long Beach State, 57-55. Davis is led by Katie Toole's 15.2 points per game and Cierra Hall dominates the board with 6.8 rebounds per game.

 

The Titans have come down from a high and mighty 2-0 start to the conference season, including a 70-68 overtime win in Santa Barbara, with two-straight losses on the road at CSUN, 63-57 in overtime, and Hawai'i, 79-72. Now, they begin a four-game homestand, with UCSB being the first up. In the first meeting between the two teams, Raina Perez had 23 points on 10-of-26 shooting and Taylor Turney scored 20 points. UCSB outrebounded Fullerton 48-39, but had four more turnovers than the Titans.

 

A pair of Gauchos rank in the top 30 in the NCAA across several statistical categories. Coco Miller has the seventh-best assist-to-turnover ratio in the country with a 3.05 mark. Ila Lane has the most total rebounds in the country (218), second-highest rebounds per game average (12.8), second highest defensive rebounds per game mark (9.4), tenth-most double-doubles (10), and the 26th-best field goal percentage (57.3%).

 

In the game against Pacific on December 5, Coco Miller's triple with 7:39 left in regulation made her the 27th member of the 1,000-point club in program history in her 102nd career game. She became the first to surpass the mark since both Nicole Nesbit and Melissa Zornig completed the feat in 2014.

 

UCSB head coach Bonnie Henrickson is just one win away from her 400th career win. Now in her 23rd season, Henrickson has enjoyed a successful career across three different schools and four different conferences.

 

Coco Miller is 11 assists away from 300 in her career and 10 triples away from 200. Tal Sahar scored her 500th point as a Gaucho in UCSB's loss to UC Riverside and Ila Lane achieved her 200th rebound of the season in the win at UC Irvine.

 

Big West games involving the Gauchos and their opponents have been decided by just 3.25 points per game, the least in the league this season. Their four games have been decided by a total of just 13 points.